| Description: | Letter in German. Google translation:
Dear Fleischmann,
After a long trip abroad, I find your night-time from 15 7 55. I have to confess that this was not only very surprising, but also very exciting and a little moving. Immediately my thoughts ran at lightning speed through a long period of years. How fast has the time of almost 20 years passed and what kind of ugly but thank goodness we have experienced. I am happy that you are healthy and that you are well. I was actually a little bit lucky. I probably thought in 1938 that a very bad time would dawn for me. Thrown out apprenticeship in the positions I was taking at the time, of course my apprenticeship in Schellinggasse immediately lost, hostile by almost all colleagues, even by so-called good friends such as the suddenly ancient fighter Arch. Back then, I really had little desire to continue living in Austria. It was invaluable for me then and always to have a wonderful family. You still met my wife back then. To date, it has been my mainstay in every respect. In the meantime we have a granddaughter, she graduated in Madrid, graduated from the Conservatory for piano studies in Spanish. Dance, was also at the music academy in Vienna. The last 2 years she studied medicine in Vienna. The daughter has just now. with medicine finished. now she was going to Paris or to Switzerland to learn French. Our Peter is already 16 years old and then we have a Thomas born in Madrid who is 12 years old and is particularly talented in art. He is now playing the piano very seriously, is a prime figure for the Scots and also a boy there. You see, a big family. We are all very happy and feel like a real family. After the change, I built my house in Grinzing. It stopped in the war. In 1939 I emigrated to Spain. We only returned to Vienna in 1950. I was rehabilitated. In Madrid we lived very happily all the years of the war. I have built a lot in Spain and I still go there every few months. In Madrid we still haven't completely broken off our house and tents. At the moment I have a lot of nice ban tasks here in Austria too. For example, I build the Palais Palffy on Josefeplatz. A very large concrete church in Erdberg will soon be completed.
I recently inaugurated a very modern rotunda in Liesing. A large seminar building is currently being completed in Mattersburg-Burgenland. Some houses etc. are not very important. In Spain I built industries, schools, etc. I am still building there. I'll be 50 in a few days. Still no beard and the feeling that you are just like in the days with e.g. 30 years. When I have time, I still play tennis and sweat like I did in my younger days. There is still a lot to report. I think it is better to tell in person. Come and jump to Vienna soon. It must be interesting for you to relive Vienna after such a long time. We are waiting for you here and we are really looking forward to seeing you. My wife was a little disappointed with your lines. They hadn't said a word to her. Why actually? She liked you very much and is noble and tall in every human respect.
They also asked about sopherl. I never saw her again. She had married after 1928 and was unfortunate because she lost her husband in the war. She should have a girl. In 1938 the great leader apparently got into her head. You never heard of her and even less about her work.
Do any of your relatives still live in Preseburg?
A few days ago my father died in Regelsbrunn at the age of 83. My mother, now 80 years old, is still alive, thank God, in the same place. We will soon experience it in Hoffentlinh, that you cannot take a jump to Preseburg, if only for a snack. We also have such a longing for Budapest.-on Miss Eisenisenger I have never seen anything, nor obeyed.
The painter, Eisenmenger, idol of the entire great movement of 1938 is again the incredibly busy painter in Vienna. He makes the opera curtain and also has a professorship in technology. Not much has changed there. The Künstlerhaus has not become more likeable. Despite being a member, I wouldn't think of going virel there. We'll see how time will develop again.
I hope at least to have told you something about the immediate past. Now I am waiting for a message from you with much curiosity. Maybe you will come to Vienna after all.
With that, the plane is really just a jump. I travel a lot and much longer distances. So we wait and you know where they are expected in Vienna.
With the warmest regards, I remain yours with my family,
PS. If you are interested in my work, I would send you some photos.
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