Otti Berger was unable to learn English well due to her hearing problem, and this was one of the reasons she couldn’t fully integrate in England. She wrote “I am still hanging in the air”.
She planned with her partner, Ludwig Hilberseimer to go to Chicago, him to work with Mies van der Rohe and her with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in the New Bauhaus. They spent holidays together. She then saw him off on a ship from Southampton for America. Otti went back to her family home in Zmajevac, Yugoslavia to look after her sick mother.
It was the last time they would meet, she wrote a letter to him:
“As I flew to Prague in wonderful weather, I was thinking about you. We were both in-between heaven and earth – you in water, and I in the air. It was a strange feeling to fly like that over the Third Reich.(...) I am glad that in this crazy time, I can be home with my loved ones. But how much longer will this last? I would be so happy to already be with you! How much longer will this go on? Will it ever come true?”
What do you think these quotes reveal? What emotions are conveyed between the lines?