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THE AUTHOR
Siegfried Kracauer was born in Frankfurt am Main, 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. From 1920 to 1933 fie was on the editorial staff of the Frankfurter Zeitung, helping to shape its cultural policy and commenting on the important intellectual events in Germany and other European countries. 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. His report was utilized for the preparation of United States Army Morale Films.
In 1943, the Guggenheim Foundation awarded Dr. Kracauer a fellowship, renewed in 1944, to prepare a book on the history of the German film, including its political, social, and economic implications. This book, From Caligari to Hitler, made a major contribution toward our understanding of pre-Hitler Germany, as viewed through the film medium. For a number of years Dr. Kracauer was among the senior members of the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University. Among his other books are: Satellite Mentality: Propaganda and the Nazi War Film; Orpheus in Paris: Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time; and Ginster, a novel. Die Angestellten, a pioneering sociological study of the German white-collar worker, has recently been republished in Germany. 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 irts, The New York Times Book Review, Mercure de France, Revue iremationale de filmologie, and the English film quarterly, Sight and bund.