 In tandem, Aderca embarked on a collaboration with "Contimporanul", a vocal modernist venue published by poet Ion Vinea.It hosted Aderca's 1923 opoen letter to Romania's theater professionals.Written as a comment to a German art manifesto (originally published by Friedrich Sternthal in "Der Neue Merkur"), it claimed that authors or directors unfamiliar with modern German drama could no longer be seen as competent or relevant in their field.