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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 L wenthal. 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.
“Kracauer’s mordant satire has the caustic power of Celine but is less coarse and choleric. Sharp criticisms of patriotism, cronyism, and the war itself are tempered by the fanciful observations of a character who has the eye of a visual artist... The result is a tour de force of language enriched by gallows humor.” —Publishers Weekly Starred Review ""Ginster’s name belongs with modern literature’s antiwar activists from the Good Soldier Švejk to Yossarian."" —Kirkus Reviews “The reissue of this novel now is valuable, beyond its considerable historical and aesthetic virtues, because it makes pertinent points about today’s world, bedeviled by war, misery, poverty, and the enticing lure of despotism as an answer to democracy’s shortcomings.” —Thomas Filbin, The Arts Fuse
