Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt

H. H. Stuckenschmidt, born in Strasbourg in 1901, grew up in Berlin, Ulm and Magdeburg. Close contacts with musicians, writers and visual and performing artists initially led him to practice music, but this soon took a back seat to his literary and critical activities. His encounters with members of the Schönberg circle, which took him to Vienna in 1924, and with French composers during his stay in Paris in 1925 were decisive for his intellectual development. His interest in new music, which was also reflected in numerous book publications, was never limited to one direction, but was characterized by great openness. In 1934 he was banned from writing in Germany, which is illustrated in the book by the edition of the sources preserved in his estate, and in 1937 he emigrated to Prague, where he wrote for the Prager Tagblatt. From 1949 to 1967 he taught music history at the Technical University of Berlin and was one of the most influential critics in the German-speaking world until his death in 1988.
In addition to unknown works from Stuckenschmidt's early period as a critic, this volume includes his correspondence with Arnold Schönberg and with Theodor W. Adorno, with whom he was not only friends for decades, but from whom he was also separated by a fundamental difference on the subject of cultural sociology. Detailed reports from his trip to America in 1949, during which he visited many emigrants, texts from the magazine Stimmen, which he co-published in the post-war period, as well as a list of all his books, feature articles, reviews and radio contributions complete the volume.

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