Anläßlich des Prague Writers' Festival, das sich in diesem Jahr schwerpunktmäßig mit dem tschechischen Beitrag zur Dada-Bewegung befaßte, unterhielt sich David Vaughan mit dem Sprachwissenschaftler Jindrich Toman:
One of the things that has been pointed out at this festival is that one of the founding fathers of Dada, Walter Serner, actually came from this country, from Bohemia.
"Yes, he was born in Karlsbad - Karlovy Vary - and he turned out to be a total bohemian in the other sense! For a very long time it was absolutely impossible even to outline his biography. He was a 'dandy'. He continued the tradition of dandyism of the turn of the century - very provocative. And it turned out that he lived in Prague in the late 1930s, that he returned to Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately he and his wife were deported. They disappeared, probably in Auschwitz."
So they returned in the late 1930s and had the misfortune of being in Czechoslovakia when the Nazis marched in...
"It seems that they tried to emigrate, but they just did not succeed in that."
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