Siegfried Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He studied philosophy, sociology, and architecture at the Universities and Institutes of Technology of Berlin and Munich, receiving his doctor's degree in Berlin. Upon his arrival in the United States in April 1941, he was appointed special assistant to the Curator of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library and commissioned to analyze Nazi war film propaganda-an assignment sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Kracauer's many articles,...See more

Siegfried Kracauer was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He studied philosophy, sociology, and architecture at the Universities and Institutes of Technology of Berlin and Munich, receiving his doctor's degree in Berlin. Upon his arrival in the United States in April 1941, he was appointed special assistant to the Curator of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library and commissioned to analyze Nazi war film propaganda-an assignment sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Kracauer's many articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in such magazines as Harper's, Commentary, The Public Opinion Quarterly, The Reporter, Partisan Review, The New Republic, Saturday Review, Theatre Arts, The New York Times Book Review, Mercure de France, Revue iternationale de filmologie, and the English film quarterly, Sight and l)und. See less