Autobiographical material from Carossa dealing with the period from the mid-twenties to the early thirties is scant; and, since Carossa's own writings are to an excessive degree the only source of information about the man, very little is known about those years. Letters to his wife's family indicate that he was very concerned with his wife's illness, which resulted in her dependency on morphine. During the 1920s he began a relationship with his later second wife, Hedwig Kerber, with a child born in 1930. The lack of literary production may indicate that problems of the German economy, primarily the disastrous inflation, had made it necessary for Carossa to return to practice. He did rework "Doktor Bürger" and republished it in 1929 as "Schicksal Doktor Bürgers", and one year earlier his home city of Munich had honored him with its "Dichterpreis". Perhaps these years of relative silence were filled with preparation for the two fine works in the offing, the first of which was to appear in 1931.