120th Anniversary of the Birth of Theodor W. Adorno
News10.09.2023
On September 11, 2023, Theodor W. Adorno would have turned 120.
Adorno was born in 1903 in Frankfurt am Main. From 1921 to 1923, he studied philosophy, sociology, psychology, and musicology in Frankfurt, where he received his PhD in 1924 for a dissertation on The Transcendence of the Material and Noematic in Husserl’s Phenomenology. Along with Max Horkheimer and Siegfried Kracauer, he was one of the most important representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, which emerged from the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1958, he took over as director of the Institute. As well as his work in the fields of philosophy and political theory, Adorno published numerous works in the field of musicology, as well as essays on literature and art.
Adorno died of a heart attack on August 6, 1969, during a vacation in Visp/Wallis.
Suhrkamp represents the rights of almost the entire oeuvre of Adorno. For more information on individual works by Adorno, contact the rights manager for your region.
Adorno was born in 1903 in Frankfurt am Main. From 1921 to 1923, he studied philosophy, sociology, psychology, and musicology in Frankfurt, where he received his PhD in 1924 for a dissertation on The Transcendence of the Material and Noematic in Husserl’s Phenomenology. Along with Max Horkheimer and Siegfried Kracauer, he was one of the most important representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, which emerged from the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1958, he took over as director of the Institute. As well as his work in the fields of philosophy and political theory, Adorno published numerous works in the field of musicology, as well as essays on literature and art.
Adorno died of a heart attack on August 6, 1969, during a vacation in Visp/Wallis.
Suhrkamp represents the rights of almost the entire oeuvre of Adorno. For more information on individual works by Adorno, contact the rights manager for your region.