Notes to pp. 178–184 52521 Adorno, letter of January 1963 to the Frankfurt student newspaper Diskus,
GS, vol. 19, p. 637.
22 Ernst Erich Noth, Erinnerungen eines Deutschen, p. 202.
23 Ibid.
24 Siegfried Kracauer, Schriften, vol. 5.3, p. 233; cf. also pp. 223ff., 186ff. and
107ff.
25 Kracauer to Adorno, 28 August 1930, Kracauer’s Literary Estate, Deutsches
Literaturarchiv, Marbach.
26 Peter von Haselberg, ‘Wiesengrund-Adorno’, p. 18.
27 Ibid., p. 20. The reader will recollect that Adorno had a Great Dane in his
childhood.
28 Adorno and Krenek, Briefwechsel, p. 43.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid., p. 44.
31 Adorno, ‘On the Social Situation of Music’, Essays on Music, p. 393.
32 Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution
1933–1939, p. 60. ‘Thirty-seven thousand of the approximately 525,000 Jews
in Germany left the country in 1933; the majority tried to emigrate to the
countries of Western Europe. In addition, there were the refugees who had
left the land legally or illegally for political reasons. By the summer of
1933, fifty thousand people had been arrested in Germany, hundreds lost
their lives.’ Ibid., pp. 29 and 35 of the German edition.
33 See Adorno and Berg, Briefwechsel 1925–1935, p. 287; see also Friedländer,
who points out that ‘the Kulturbund played another role, unseen but no
less real, which points to the future: as the first Jewish organization under
the direct supervision of a Nazi overlord, it foreshadowed the Nazi ghetto,
in which a pretence of internal autonomy camouflaged the total subordina-
tion of an appointed Jewish leadership to the dictates of its masters.’ Saul
Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, p. 66.
34 Ibid., p. 62.
35 During the First World War about 100,000 Jews served in the armed forces,
80,000 of them at the front out of a total population of 550,000 Jews in the
Reich. See Ulrich Sieg, Jüdische Intellektuelle im Ersten Weltkrieg.
36 See Leo Löwenthal, Mitmachen wollte ich nie, p. 255.
37 Adorno, ‘Die Freudsche Theorie und die Struktur der faschistischen
Propaganda’, p. 49.
38 See Andreas Hansert, Bürgerpolitik und Kulturpolitik in Frankfurt am Main,
p. 188ff.
39 Benjamin and Adorno, The Complete Correspondence 1928–1940, p. 46.
40 Adorno to Löwenthal, 6 July 1934. See Löwenthal, Mitmachen wollte ich
nie, p. 250ff.
41 Adorno, ‘Notiz über Wagner’, GS, vol. 18, p. 209.
42 Adorno, ‘Farewell to Jazz’, Essays on Music, p. 496. The thesis that jazz
was in a process of dissolution was false despite the restrictions in Nazi
Germany, where jazz was held to be a form of sabotage against German
culture but showed no signs of disappearing. For example, the swing band
of the Swiss Teddy Stauffer, the Original Teddys, kept on having engage-
ments and enjoying commercial success. Moreover, the most important
recordings of musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Tommy
Dorsey, Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins appeared despite all the