Adorno

502 Notes to pp. 62–70

36 Adorno to Robert and Anita Alexander, 3 January 1948, Theodor W.
Adorno Archive, Frankfurt am Main, Br 13/2.
37 Adorno to Hermann Grab, 27 October 1945, Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main, Br 497/39–40.
38 Adorno to Hermann Grab, 2 May 1946, Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main, Br 497/41–42.
39 Adorno, Aufzeichnungen zum neunzackigen Krönchen, Theodor W. Adorno
Archive, Frankfurt am Main, TS 51902.
40 This magnanimity on Gretel Adorno’s part has been confirmed by Elisabeth
Lenk and Rudolf zur Lippe, both of whom were close friends of the couple.
41 See Adorno, Im Gedächtnis an Alban Berg, GS, vol. 18, p. 480f., and also
Constantin Floros, Alban Berg und Hanna Fuchs: Die Geschichte einer
Liebe in Briefen. The allusion is to the traditional comparison between
Prussia and Austria, according to which in Prussia conditions were said to
be serious, but not desperate, while in Austria it was the other way round
[trans.].
42 Adorno, Traumprotokolle, 16 March 1969, Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main, TS 51810.
43 Adorno, Traumprotokolle, 16 June 1960, Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main, TS 51779; see also Rolf Tiedemann, ‘Gretel Adorno
zum Abschied’, p. 151.
44 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 192.

Part II Commuting between Philosophy and Music

1 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 150.

Chapter 5 The City of Frankfurt and its University

1 See Wilfried Forstmann,‘Frankfurt am Main in Wilhelminischer Zeit 1866–

1918’, p. 415ff.; Andreas Hansert, Bürgerkultur und Kulturpolitik in Frank-

furt am Main, p. 122ff.

2 No less a person than Max Weber had spoken out in favour of such an

unconventional institution in 1910, when he was in Frankfurt am Main for

the Sociology Congress. A little later, he underlined his support for such

an autonomous institution in an official report to the Prussian Ministry

of Education – this was undoubtedly a challenge to official Prussian policy

on the universities. Weber’s recommendation stood four-square with

the tradition of a civic cultural life based on its own resources and

independent of a centralist state policy. And this was what the commercial

and cultured Frankfurt middle class envisaged for its university. It was

to be autonomous, and thus independent of pressures from both the state

and private interests. ‘This led to the creation, unique in Germany, of

a state university without the state funding that would have been subject

to parliamentary scrutiny. It was to be an endowed, civic university,

authorized by royal decree, supported by the city of Frankfurt’s desire for

reform and its financial resources as well as the resources of its mainly