Siegfried Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer
Competition: US & Canada
Museum of Modern Art
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1943–44:
KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED. Appointed for the preparation of a history of German film in relation to the social, political, economic and aesthetic influences that shaped it; tenure, twelve months from July 1, 1943.
Born February 8, 1899, in Germany. Education: Universities and Polytechnical Schools of Berlin and Munich, 1907–13; Polytechnical School of Berlin, Ph.D., 1913.
Member of the editorial staff, 1920–33, Frankfurter Zeitung; engaged in film research, 1941–43, Museum of Modern Art Film Library.
Publications: Soziologie als Wissenschaft, 1925; Ginster, 1928 (also published in French); Die Angestellten: Aus dem neuesten Deutschland, 1930 (also published in Czech); Orpheus in Paris: Offenbach and the Paris of his Time, 1937 (also published in French, German, American, Swedish, Czech and Polish editions); Propaganda and the Nazi War Film, 1942. Articles in Frankfurter Zeitung, Logos, Preussische Jahrbücher, Archiv für Sozialwissenschaften, Neue Rundschau.