![]() ![]() His book The Origins of German Tragic Drama, published in 1928, quickly received favorable attention from leading critics in Germany and abroad. His celebrated 1924 essay on Goethe's novella, The Elective Affinities, put into practice his ideas of art criticism. He returned to Berlin and worked as a literary critic and translator. In 1919, Benjamin earned his PhD summa cum laude at the University of Bern with a dissertation called Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik (The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism). ![]() He married Dora Sophie Pollak, with whom he had a son. Walter attended a progressive co-educational boarding school in Haubinda, and the universities of Freiburg, Berlin, Munich, and Bern. His parents were Pauline (Schönflies) and Emil Benjamin, a banker and businessman. Walter Benjamin was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, the eldest of three children. ![]()
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