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"At its session on June 12, 1953, the Theater Construction Committee decided to request
a design based on this new and now much clearer agenda from the architects Professor Schwarz
(Cologne), Professor Schweizer (Karlsruhe), and Mr. Weber (Frankfurt). Later this request
was also sent to the architect Mies van der Rohe (Chicago), who contacted us on his trip to
Germany. In the end, the architects Mies van der Rohe and Schwarz declined the opportunity
to participate any further.
"Re: New National Theater Building." Transcript draft of the report on the plans made
between March 1953 and March 1954 for the City Council meeting on March 13, 1954, at which Gerhard Weber was chosen to receive the commission.
Mannheim, March 10, 1954
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