606 Notes to pp. 453– 457
the protests against the shah’s visit, the death of Benno Ohnesorg and
the anti-Springer campaign, as well as the resistance to the emergency
laws and the Grand Coalition. In its final phase of direct action, matters
escalated to the murderous ‘special path’ of the terrorism of the Red
Army Faction, from which there was ‘a return to the university’ where
the supporters of direct action maintained their position, partly in the
shape of dogmatic sectarian groups. Habermas, Protestbewegung und
Hochschulreform, p. 10ff.
20 Frankfurter Adorno Blätter, III, 1994, p. 146f.
21 Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, GS, vol. 18, p. 652.
22 See Wolfgang Kraushaar (ed.), Frankfurter Schule und Studentenbewegung,
vol. 2, p. 231.
23 Monika Steffen, ‘Tiere an Ketten’, p. 263ff.
24 Rolf Tiedemann, ‘Iphigenie bei den Berliner Studenten’, p. 124ff.
25 Wolfgang Kraushaar (ed.), Frankfurter Schule und Studentenbewegung,
vol. 1, p. 264f.
26 Ibid., vol. 2, p. 265ff.
27 Adorno, ‘On the Classicism of Goethe’s Iphigenie’, Notes to Literature,
vol. 2, p. 161.
28 Wolfgang Kraushaar (ed.), Frankfurter Schule und Studentenbewegung,
vol. 2, p. 267.
29 Adorno to Kolisch, 17 July 1967, Frankfurter Adorno Blätter, VI, 2000,
p. 58.
30 Adorno to Helge Pross, 13 July 1967, ibid., p. 55. Even if Adorno played
down the whole incident, it is clear, as Tiedemann points out, that it was
a situation in which Adorno was confronted with brutish behaviour. ‘He
interpreted the Iphigenie as the adversary of such behaviour which he had
now experienced directly probably for the first time since 1933, when the
police had searched his house in Frankfurt and he had witnessed the first
Jewish boycott in Berlin’ (Rolf Tiedemann, ‘Iphigenie bei den Berliner
Studenten’, p. 125).
31 Adorno to Hellmut Becker, 13 July 1967, Frankfurter Adorno Blätter, VI,
2000, p. 55f.
32 Adorno, ‘Gespräch mit Peter Szondi über die “Unruhen der Studenten”’,
quoted in Wolfgang Kraushaar (ed.), Frankfurter Schule und Studenten-
bewegung, vol. 2, p. 304ff.
33 Ibid., p. 327.
34 Ibid., p. 237.
35 In a letter of 17 July 1967 to Rudolf Kolisch, Adorno described Marcuse
as a ‘kind of sacred cow of the rebellious students..., and sacred animals
are never good, whatever the constellation.’ He reacted to Marcuse’s
‘commitment for Mao’ with a kind of distanced irony. Frankfurter Adorno
Blätter, VI, 2000, p. 59.
36 Adorno to Marcuse, 1 June 1967, ibid., p. 44f.
37 Adorno to Beckett, 4 February 1969, Theodor W. Adorno Archive,
Frankfurt am Main (Br 76/5).
38 Adorno to Szondi, 9 May 1968, Frankfurter Adorno Blätter, VI, 2000, p. 65.
39 Adorno and Lenk, Briefwechsel, p. 148.
40 The publication of Benjamin’s Schriften, edited by Adorno and his
wife with the assistance of Friedrich Podszus in 1955, was followed by