Siegfried Kracauer author biography, plus links to books by Siegfried Kracauer.

Siegfried Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) was a German novelist, film theorist, and cultural critic. He worked as the film and literature editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung between 1922 and 1933, and he has been associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory through his friendships with Theodor Adorno and Leo Löwenthal. From 1941 until his death in 1966, Kracauer lived and worked in the United States, where he wrote two of his most influential works, From Calgari to Hitler and Theory of Film.

Carl Skoggard is a writer and translator based in Hudson, NY. His translations include Walter Benjamin's Sonnets and a later novel by Siegfried Kracauer, Georg.

Johannes von Moltke is a professor of German and of film, media, and television at the University of Michigan. His book The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America was published in 2015.

This biography was last updated on 08/13/2024.

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