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    Siegfried Kracauer (/ˈkrækaʊ.ər/; German: [ˈkʁakaʊ̯ɐ]; February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic...
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  • Psychological History of the German Film is a book by film critic and writer Siegfried Kracauer, published in 1947. This work of film theory is one of the first major...
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    protest against the film. In his 1947 book From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer argued, based largely on an unpublished typescript written and provided...
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    Frankfurter Zeitung, 19 May 1926, reprinted in Kracauer et al. (eds.), Werke. Frankfurt, 2004, p. 234; Siegfried Kracauer, "Les lampes Jupiter restent allumées:...
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  • Horkheimer, Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Hermann Kesten, Annette Kolb, Siegfried Kracauer, Else Lasker-Schüler, Emil Ludwig, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, Erika...
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    burned away in a cloud of smoke. In his From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer identified Orlok as a "scourge of God" comparable to Attila, noting...
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  • different actors with the title Le Testament du Dr. Mabuse. According to Siegfried Kracauer, Lang intended the film to suggest the Mabuse-like qualities of Adolf...
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    film are Lotte Eisner's The Haunted Screen and Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler. Kracauer examines German cinema from the Silent/Golden Era...
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    International Nonino Prize. The Siegfried Lenz Prize is a literary prize awarded every two years in Hamburg by the Siegfried Lenz Foundation. The prize is...
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  • 1940), German operatic tenor Siegfried Bernfeld (1892–1953), Austrian psychologist, educator, and writer Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), German writer,...
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    Keun Sarah Kirsch Egon Erwin Kisch Siegfried Kracauer Karl Kraus Else Lasker-Schüler Kurd Laßwitz Gert Ledig Siegfried Lenz Heinrich Mann Klaus Mann Thomas...
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  • theory. Formalist film theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Béla Balázs, and Siegfried Kracauer, emphasized how film differed from reality and thus could be considered...
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    the 1940s, the horror film was viewed in different terms. Critic Siegfried Kracauer included The Lost Weekend among films described as “terror films”...
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    Eduard Jacob, Franz Kafka, Georg Kaiser, Alfred Kerr, Egon Kisch, Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor Lessing, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Karl Liebknecht, Georg...
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  • 1920s and 1930s by authors like Béla Balázs, László Moholy-Nagy, Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. Among theorists working within contemporary culture...
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    time, he befriended Siegfried Kracauer, the Frankfurter Zeitung's literary editor, of whom he would later write: For years Kracauer read [Kant's] Critique...
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  • party. In his 1947 book From Caligari to Hitler, German film critic Siegfried Kracauer argues that the film fails to fully break away from the authoritarian...
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    Keun Sarah Kirsch Egon Erwin Kisch Siegfried Kracauer Karl Kraus Else Lasker-Schüler Kurd Laßwitz Gert Ledig Siegfried Lenz Heinrich Mann Klaus Mann Thomas...
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    Hermann Hesse, Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Hermann Kesten, Annette Kolb, Siegfried Kracauer, Emil Ludwig, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, Thomas Mann, Balder Olden...
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    said that he wanted Lang to make Nazi films. German cultural critic Siegfried Kracauer later wrote of Metropolis, "The Americans relished its technical excellence;...
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  • the Twenty-First Century: Critical Analyses of Movie Theatres by Siegfried Kracauer and Their Relevance Today" (PDF). Cultural Intertexts. 10: 13–30....
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    Jewish contributors had to leave the Frankfurter Zeitung, including Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The paper was finally sold in June 1934 to the...
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    notierten um 1920 nicht einmal linke Kritiker wie Ernst Bloch Oder Siegfried Kracauer, aber sie sickern zum Beispiel auch noch in die jüngere Waldorf-Literatur...
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    Pudovkin "Dialogue and Sound" essay by film historian and critic Siegfried Kracauer; first published in his book Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical...
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    Keun Sarah Kirsch Egon Erwin Kisch Siegfried Kracauer Karl Kraus Else Lasker-Schüler Kurd Laßwitz Gert Ledig Siegfried Lenz Heinrich Mann Klaus Mann Thomas...
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    Keun Sarah Kirsch Egon Erwin Kisch Siegfried Kracauer Karl Kraus Else Lasker-Schüler Kurd Laßwitz Gert Ledig Siegfried Lenz Heinrich Mann Klaus Mann Thomas...
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    notierten um 1920 nicht einmal linke Kritiker wie Ernst Bloch Oder Siegfried Kracauer, aber sie sickern zum Beispiel auch noch in die jüngere Waldorf-Literatur...
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  • Denis Gifford Jean-Luc Godard (Cahiers du Cinéma) Shigehiko Hasumi Siegfried Kracauer Emanuel Levy Jay Leyda Phillip Lopate Kaden Loyet Adrian Martin Christian...
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    prince Siegfried comes to Worms to acquire the hand of the Burgundian princess Kriemhild from her brother King Gunther. Gunther agrees to let Siegfried marry...
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  • images. This was soon followed by the rise of Italian neorealism. Siegfried Kracauer was also notable for arguing that realism is the most important function...
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