Adorno, Gretel (née Karplus) vii;
on American clothes 4;
on antiSemitism 11;
birthdays 100, 139, 187, 223, 286, 327;
cold and conjunctivitis 273, 274;
lumbago 132;
migraines 10, 31, 47, 117, 340;
sciatica 160, 161–2, 163, 164, 166–7, 170, 172, 205;
naturalization process 141, 160;
working hard 37
Adorno, Joseph A. 7, 267, pl. 6
Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund:
accompanies the violinist Lisa Minghetti 348, 352, 353, 356, 360, 363, 366;
on advertising 93;
affair with Charlotte Alexander 276, 277–9, 281–3, 349;
affair with Renée Nell 123–5, 131, 134–5;
‘Aldous Huxley and Utopia’ 338;
apartment-hunting for parents 81, 82–3;
on being an alien 54, 87–8, 97, 101, 104, 115, 258–9, 352;
Benjamin and 348;
on California 69–71, 75, 79, 334–5;
chronic cold 150;
diabetes 249, 250, 251, 268, 282;
headache cure 193;
heart problems 241, 242–3, 247, 249, 251;
influenza 175;
stomach ulcers 271, 273, 274, 276;
wisdom teeth pulled 223–4, 226, 228;
Mann’s Doctor Faustus 327;
Mann’s The Genesis of a Novel 328–9;
military status in USA 134;
naturalization process 141, 143, 160;
on philosophical language 174, 176;
on post-war antiSemitism 248–9;
property in Frankfurt 337;
on psychoanalysis 189;
relationship with parents vi;
speaking against fascism 51;
teaches music 289;
teaches psychoanalytical candidates 357, 363–4;
teaches with Horkheimer 363, 364;
wish to return to Germany 40–2;
works: address to JLC 166;
‘Aldous Huxley and Utopia’ 340;
Anti-Semitism: A Social Disease 271, 272;
‘Anti-Semitism and Fascist Propaganda’ 186, 187–8;
anti-Semitism project 10–11, 61, 128, 131, 132, 136, 142, 180, 204, 321, 348;
arts dictionary project 83;
The Authoritarian Personality (with Horkheimer) 129, 373;
Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music 56, 165;
on Benjamin 43, 98, 327, 329, 383;
Composing for the Films (with Eisler) 119, 121, 129, 170, 172, 224, 267, 277, 294;
‘Culture Industry’ 158;
‘Das Schema der Massenkultur’ 106, 108, 109;
‘Democratic Leadership and Mass Manipulation’ 339;
Dialectic of Enlightenment (with Horkheimer) 92, 95, 118, 120, 125, 274, 293, 317, 340;
dictionary of music 350;
on George 46;
on Hofmannsthal 46;
on Kierkegaard 37, 57, 61, 292, 293;
‘Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft’ 340;
Minima Moralia 151, 212, 213, 235, 274;
music education project 43;
musical compositions 90, 91, 168, 169;
‘On a Social Critique of Radio Music’ 10, 17–18, 23;
‘Philosophical Fragments’ (with Horkheimer) 184, 219;
on popular music 5, 93, 94, 101, 102;
‘Private Morale in Germany’ (with Marcuse) 88;
psychoanalysis lectures 254, 285, 326;
‘Reason and Survival’ (with Horkheimer) 86, 87;
‘Reflections upon the Theory of Class’ 108;
report for Washington 106;
on Simmel 45;
‘Spengler after the Decline’ 168, 169, 171, 172, 174;
study for US government 118;
‘The Musical Climate for Fascism in Germany’ 196;
Theory of Needs seminar 101, 102
‘Theses on Art and Religion’ 232
‘Why Are We Still Barbarians?’ (with Horkheimer) 207
‘Zur Philosophie der neuen Musik’ 293, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 324, 326, 327, 349, 352, 365, 367, 371
Adorno family 23–4 see also under Calvelli-Adorno;
Wiesengrund
Alaska 10
Alcan, Felix 49
Alexander, Charlotte 212, 213, 214, 316, 327, 333–4
affair with Adorno 274, 277–83;
character of 345;
divorces Robert 301;
keeps married name 335;
letters and 300;
marries Dr Violin 351, 352, 365
Robert’s wedding and 312
car accident 310
divorces Charlotte 277, 278, 281, 283
medical advice 204, 212, 213, 214, 221, 231, 237
uncertainty about remarriage 301, 304
Allmeier 43
American Jewish Committee (AJC) 128, 129, 193, 286
childhood antiSemitism study 220
effect of war’s end 236
hires Horkheimer as consultant 197–8, 199
Jewish Record 234
Anders (Stern), Günther 101, 102
Andor, Paul (Wolfgang Zilzer) 107
Andor-Palfi, Lotte 107
Andreae, Norah (née Hahn) 108, 125, 150
comforts Adornos 259
with daughter in Mexico 167, 299, 319
death of 350
help for ailing Gretel 162
makes Adorno executor 136, 139
music and 111
New Year’s day 347
news from Germany 245
separated from children 118, 128–9
Annachen (Wiesengrunds’ maid) 9, 375, 377
Attlee, Clement 227
Auber, Stefan 21
Auchinleck, General Claude 103
Bacon, Lloyd 57
Badarzewska-Baranowska, Tekla 212
Barrault, Jean-Louis 370
Bartók, Béla 236
Contrasts for Benny Goodman 94
Baudelaire, Charles 43, 234, 235
Baum, Vicki 351
Beck, Maximilian 7
Beethoven, Ludwig van 56
Adorno and Minghetti play 348, 352, 353, 356, 360, 363
Benjamin, Dora (sister of Walter) 245, 246
Benjamin, Dora (wife of Walter) 246
Benjamin, Walter 12, 97, 348, 376
Adorno’s work on 383
essay on Baudelaire 43
in Lourdes 62
peculiarity 137
Wiesengrund family connection 355
Bentley, Eric 285
Berg, Alban 54
Bernekker, Frau 265
Bernfeld, Siegfried 186, 188, 189
Beroldingen, Count Egon von 139, 140
Beuschel (childhood friend) 325
Bissing, Hans-Ulrich von 262
Bloom, Leonard 324
Bodenhausen, Christa von 318, 319
Bodenhausen, Julie von see Kollsman, Luli
Bohm, Gertrud (daughter) 244
Bohm, Gertrud (née Pie) 239, 243, 244
Bohm, Hans 244
Bolongaro-Crevenna, Alfred 319
Borchardt, Rudolf 138
Borodin, Alexander 355
Boyer, Charles 186
Brecht, Bertolt 78, 80, 108, 139, 143, 150, 187
affair with Ruth Berlau 205, 206
poem ‘Hollywood’ 106
Theory of Needs seminar 101, 102
visited by FBI 97
Brecht (Weigel), Helene 135, 175–6
help for ailing Gretel 162
Briggs, Laura 78
Britain: appeasing Hitler 58
Bruckner-Karplus, Susi 115
Bruckner-Karplus, Wilhelm 115
Cahn, Rosa 107
Calvelli-Adorno, Agathe 42, 296, 375, 376
Calvelli-Adorno, Elisabeth (née Henning) 78, 80
Calvelli-Adorno, Franz 18, 110, 274, 276
Adorno’s stay with 375
children of 346
on property claims 316
on Reparations Committee 233
Calvelli-Adorno, Helene (Franz’s wife, née Mommsen) 110, 244, 276, 288, 362
disappoints Adorno 316
Calvelli-Adorno, Helene (Louis’s wife, née Katz) 225
death of 244
Calvelli-Adorno, Louis Prosper 16, 18
criticism of vi; death of wife 244
grandchildren of 346
hell of Germany 252
later years 375
Calvelli-Adorno, Ludwig 109, 110
Chamberlain, Neville 27, 58, 59
Chaplin, Charlie 310
private showing of Mr Verdoux 279, 280
Chart, Frederick G. 215
Child Welfare Institute 220, 226
Christ, Joseph 376
Christians, Mady 167, 169, 170, 173
Churchill, Winston S. 63
succeeds Chamberlain 59
Columbia Broadcasting System 17
Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) 148, 149
Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague 53
Copland, Aaron 94
Coryan, Irina 134
Coughlin, Father Charles 58, 60
Crevenna, Hilda (née Plieninger) 318–19
Cuba: Adorno’s parents leave 26
radio 17
Darrieux, Danielle 186
Debussy, Claude 48
Deste, Luli see Kollsman, Luli
Deufel, Nikolaus 381
Dewey, Thomas E. 341
Dieterle, William and Charlotte 81, 83, 93, 95, 139, 143, 299, 344
big shot gathering 141
social life 200
Drevermann, Ria 327
Drevermann, Wolf 327
Dreyer, Carl 106
Dreyfuss, Willi 326
Eden, Anthony 220
Eisler, Gerhart 269
Eisler, Hanns 93, 94, 100, 288
Composing for the Films (with Adorno) 119, 121, 129, 170, 172, 224, 267, 277, 294
housewarming party 128
as neighbour 108
social visits 111, 114, 134, 143, 144–5, 208
Theory of Needs seminar 101, 102
Virgil Thomson reviews book 306
threat of deportation 310
at victory party 228
Epstein, Alice (née Wiesengrund) 159, 232
Epstein, Fritz T. 232
Everett-Lehner, Martha 147, 150, 358
Farrow, John: The Hitler Gang 152 fascism: hope for collapse of 40–1
Fenichel, Otto 169, 186, 189, 204
Ferrier, Kathleen 314
Feuchtwanger, Lion and Marta 175, 315
Fischer, Josef 380
Fischer, Ruth (née Eisler) 269
Flesch, Carl 120
Föh, Frau 160
Frank, Liesel 325
Frankfurt University 360
Adorno returns to 268, 269, 371, 374–5, 376–7
Franz Joseph, Kaiser 184
Franzos, Karl Emil: Der Pojaz 125, 126
Frenkel, Frau 369
Frenkel, George: personality 40
Frenkel, Hilde 119
Frenkel, Leo 1, 3, 24, 75, 91, 159, 161, 358
job with Voice of America 356
and Julie Rautenberg 37
legal adviser 200
personality 40
Frenkel-Brunswik, Else 180, 200
Friedgood, Harry 245, 246, 359, 361
Fritz, Hanna (née Hofer) 143, 162, 288
Gadamer, Hans-Georg 375, 376, 377
Galsworthy, John 302
Gans, Elisabeth von (née Keller) 89–90
Garbo, Greta 170
Germany: Allied invasion 187
antiHitler groups within 165, 190
attack on Britain 63
citizenship of refugees 26
internal wartime situation 95–6, 130
invades the Low Countries 55
occupation of 222
post-war offers to Jews 249
post-war partying 245
property of emigrants 195–6, 199–200, 202, 255, 262
war damage 221
wishing revenge against 149 see also Hitler
Goerdeler, Carl Friedrich 100
Goerz, Countess see Kollsman, Luli
Goodman, Benny 94
Grab, Blanche (née Smullyan) 127, 128
Grab, Hermann 63, 64, 127, 128, 156, 181, 182, 255, 365
Graham, Raymond 54
Granach, Alexander 125, 126, 182, 196, 267
autobiographical novel 265, 266
Greissle, Felix 99
Guilbert, Yvette 316
Gumperz, Julian 127
Gumperz, Lotte 125
Gurland, A. R. L. 76
Habsburg, Rudolf von 186
Hacker, Frederick J. 370
Hahn, Ludwig Arnold 89, 90, 150, 154, 159, 181
German property 248
longevity of 183
looks after Hermann Levi 214–15
music and 111
Hahn family 237
Hallstein, Walter 269, 360, 361, 362, 363
Hartmann, Johann Georg 223
Haskin, Byron 57
Hawkins, Richard Laurin 7
Herbert, Walter 153
Herlé, Frau 160
Herz, Frau 236
Herzberger, Else 28, 29–30, 34, 37, 206, 207, 266, 344
Adorno’s second letter to 357
disappointment revealed 348
friendship with Maria Wiesengrund 310, 312
and Grünebaum 74
old sourpuss letter to 330–1, 333
unresponsive 317, 320, 335, 363, 364
Herzog, Herta 6
Heymann/Heimann family 14, 15, 245
Hitler, Adolf: agreement with Chamberlain 27
assassination attempt 190
pact with USSR 16
pocketing Europe 56
Hoare, Viscount Samuel 329, 330
Hobson, Wilder 7
Hoffmann, Heinrich 100
Der Struwwelpeter 193
Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Heinrich 227
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von 10, 46, 138
Hölderlin, J. C. F. 261
Horenstein, Jascha 115
admires blanket 116
attends Heine lecture 342
birthday of 172
farewell dinner 200
Gretel’s birthday 223
help for ailing Gretel 162
holidays with 17
learning bridge 162
Lix’s birthday party 315
Max misses 208
New York and California 199
social time 5, 6, 109, 134, 286
special occasions 68, 89, 100, 269, 271
visits the parents 214
Horkheimer, Max: and Adorno’s parents 112, 313
burden of work 143, 210–11, 231, 236, 286, 320
in California 69–71, 188, 343, 344
comforts Adornos 259
as ‘enemy alien’ 88
‘exploratory tour’ 60
farewell dinner 200
Granach’s party 125
helps Adorno’s emigration 2
learning bridge 162
military status in USA 134
misses wife 208
in New York 233
reads Hugo 139
The Revolt of Nature (lectures) 173, 174
social times 5, 6, 14, 17, 56, 286
special occasions 68, 89, 100, 117, 269, 271, 315
surviving the war 54
view of war 144
working with Adorno 62, 79, 136, 150
works and roles: on anti-Semitism 11, 46, 180, 186, 187–8, 204, 348
The Authoritarian Personality (with Adorno) 129, 373
‘Betrachtung zum curfew’ 110
‘Culture Industry’ 158
Dialectic of Enlightenment (with Adorno) 92, 95, 118, 120, 125, 274, 293, 317, 340
at Frankfurt University 356, 357, 358, 383
lectures in New York 193
music education project 43
‘Philosophical Fragments’ (with Adorno) 184, 219
‘Reason and Survival’ (with Adorno) 86, 87
report for Washington 106
in Simmel’s Anti-Semitism 272
speaking against fascism 51
teaches at La Habra 289
‘Why Are We Still Barbarians?’ (with Adorno) 207
works with Adorno 49
Hugo, Victor 139
Husserl, Edmund 176
Institute of Social Research: Columbia lectures 76
post-war revival 356, 357, 358, 383
‘Walter Rosenthal’ figure 16, 19
Italy 144
Japan 228
Jaspers, Karl 250
Jewish College 363
Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) 129, 169
Jewish people: Alaska as refuge 10
dangers in Nazi Germany 20
fascism and anti-Semitism 40–1
Madagascar plan 12
territorial problem 58
Jochman, Carl Gustav 43
Kainz, Josef 316
Kaltenborn, Hans von 17
Kant, Immanuel 125
Karplus, Albert 21
Karplus, Amalia (Melly, née Jacak) 20, 21, 22, 45, 328
silence from 200
in touch with Adornos 255
Karplus, Gretel see Adorno, Gretel
Karplus, Liselotte see Wissing, Liselotte
Karplus and Herzberger company 284, 285
Kaschnitz, Marie Luise 250
Kaus, Regina Wiener 115, 116, 125, 128
Khuner, Felix 21
Klein, Bertha 170
Klemperer, Victor 88
Knöll, Dr 284
Kolisch, Rudolf 6, 7, 43, 127, 128, 244, 289, 291
at Lake Tahoe 295
performs Bartók 47
Kolisch Quartet 52
Kollsman, Luli (Julie von Bodenhausen, then Deste) 143, 162
Adornos’ affection for 247
character of 137–9, 140, 150, 187, 302
Come, Take my Hand 367
and Dr Violin 365
health and emotional state of 148, 229–30, 300, 304, 313
impostor princess and 310
marriage to Kollsman 194, 195, 267, 282
sister of 318
takes the dog 226, 228, 230, 255, 290
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang 314
Kortner, Fritz 143, 162, 205, 288, 303, 305, 306
Kortner, Hanna (née Hofer) 306, 309
Kracauer, Elisabeth 64
Kracauer, Siegfried 63, 64, 147
From Caligari to Hitler 284, 285
Kramer & Rosenstein 215
Kraus, Karl 18
Kreisler, Fritz 10, 12, 157, 304, 321, 322
Krenek, Ernst 301, 306, 320, 323
The Life of Orestes 384
Krenek, Frau 342
Kuszowski, Wera von 317
La Habra College 289, 301, 302, 303
short of money 304
Laidlaw, Estella 6, 7, 8, 11, 22
Landshoff, Fritz H. 323
Lang, Frita: Secret Beyond the Doors 302
Lang, Fritz: Adorno on studio set 277
Christmases with 269, 271, 309, 310, 345–6
Fury 279
guest Fritzi Massary 325
helps Adornos move 354
The House by the River 373
relationship with Lily Latté 298
social time 228, 306, 319, 321, 327, 336
stag invades garden 300
strained at work 364
visits Pioneer Town 318
Lanskoronski 234
Lascelles, George (earl of Harewood) 371, 372
Latté, Elisabeth Lily (née Schaul): angiospasms 371
appendectomy 321
attends Heine lecture 342
Christmases with 269, 271, 276, 309, 310, 345–6
Gretel’s birthday 327
helps Adornos move 354
reports on Maria Wiesengrund 299–300
social time 228, 256, 264, 319, 364
visits Pioneer Town 318
Lefébure, Yvonne 329
Lehmann, Jules/Julius 128–9, 136
Lehmann, Walter 316
Lenya, Lotte (Karoline Blamauer) 14–15, 173
Levi, Blanche 369
Levi, Hermann 18, 214–15, 317, 318, 319, 361
Levi, Samson 18
Levy-Ginsberg (Levilliers), Arnold 357
Lewis, Leon 145
Lewis, Sinclair: It Can’t Happen Here 41
Liefmann, Dr Emil 271
background of 53
treats Gretel Adorno 51
treats Maria Wiesengrund 174
treats Oscar Wiesengrund 177–8, 257
Lind, Jenny 296
Lindbergh, Charles A. 58, 60, 190
London, Jack: Iron Heel 41
Lothar, Anita (née Seligmann, later Alexander) 34, 35, 146, 153, 167, 254, 301, 346
marriage to Robert Alexander 316
marries Alexander 217, 219, 301
Lothar, Corinna 347
Low, Sir David Alexander 104, 105
Löwenthal, Erman 103
Löwenthal, Leo 26, 28, 94, 100, 279
illness 136
report on Oscar Wiesengrund’s funeral 261
Lukács, Georg 268
Lynd, Helen Merrell: Middletown (with R. Lynd) 6
Lynd, Robert S.: Middletown (with H. Lynd) 5, 6
Maaskoff, Anton 114, 115, 123, 125, 291
musical talent 157
separates from Lisa 368
Maaskoff, Liesel see Minghetti, Lisa
McCormick, Robert Rutherford 190
MacManus, George 224
Madariaga, Salvador de: Christopher
Mahler, Gustav 92
performance of 338
radio broadcasts of 97, 310, 312, 313–14
score gone astray 99, 103, 104
Maier, Ilse see Mayer, Ilse
Mallarmé, Stéphane 123
Mann, Katia 330
Mann, Monika 341
Mann, Thomas: broken shoulder 318
chamber music evening 337
doesn’t warm to Luli Kollsman 321, 322
forms friendship with Adorno 153, 154
and Emil Liefmann 178
on post-war Germany 299
social time 131, 144, 185, 246, 315
support for Adorno’s book 371, 372
at victory party 228
Walter and 314
Warner premier 150
works: Adorno and Doctor Faustus 243, 257, 258, 274, 275, 323, 327
Der Zauberberg/The Magic Mountain 266, 268
Felix Krull 334
finishes Doctor Faustus 280
On the Genesis of a Novel 328–9, 340, 344, 353, 355, 367, 371
publication of Doctor Faustus 304
reads from Doctor Faustus 165
Mannerheim, General C. G. E. F. 26
Marcuse, Herbert 75, 76, 102, 143, 144, 299
‘Private Morale in Germany’ (with Adorno) 88
work on German chauvinism 118, 120
Theory of Needs seminar 101, 102
Massary, Fritzi 325
Matray, Ernst 316
Mayer, Ilse 37, 39, 98–9, 115, 116, 174, 175, 321, 334, 344
Mendelssohn, Felix Bartholdy 98
Mendelssohn, Margot von 97, 99, 160, 342, 354
Menuhin, Hephzibah 337
Meyerhof, Agnes 377
Michaelis firm 215
Adorno accompanies 123, 167, 348, 352, 353, 356, 360, 363
chamber evening 366
Alexander Granach’s party 125
separates from Maaskoff 368
Moissi, Alexander 316
Molotoff, Vyacheslav 220
Mommsen, Helmut 244
Mosbacher, Lotte 208 see Zilzer, Lotte
Moses, Paul J. 351
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 337, 360
Mussert, Anton A. 12
dismissed from government 144, 145
National Broadcasting Company 17
National Centre for Jewish
Emigration 11
Adorno’s affair with 124–5, 131, 135
Neufville, Robert de 26, 28–9, 30, 225
Behemoth 92
Nietzsche, Friedrich 125
Nürnberg, Ralph: Theory of Needs seminar 101, 102
Odets, Clifford 280
Opie, Kathrin (née Taussig) 284, 285
Opie, Redvers 18, 19, 22, 284, 285
Oporto, Thora d’ (Countess Boxberg) 257, 258
Oppenheim, Paul 22, 23, 40, 120, 136, 139
Oppenheim-Errera, Gabrielle 22, 23
Oppenheimer family 118–19, 120
Palfi, Victor 107, 143, 144, 208, 239, 309
at victory party 228
Pastern, Frau 315
Patti, Adelina 296
Patzak, Julius 314
Pfeiffer-Belli, Erich 270
Piper’s Opera House 296, pl. 8
Plaut, Clara (née Mayer) 334
Pollock, Andrée (Dée) 5, 6, 8, 49
death of 14
Pollock, Carlota (née Bernekker) 247, 321, 323, 327
Pollock, Frederick (Fritz) 5, 6, 8, 14, 63, 188, 327
anti-Semitism project 204
apricot brandy and 85
Columbia lecture 76
government consultation 135
Gretel’s birthday 223
in Los Angeles 290
new house 308
new motherin-law 265
in New York 320
rebuilding institute in Frankfurt 356, 357, 358
special occasions 100
visits California 75
working relations 79
Portugal 63
Pringsheim, Klaus 352
Psychoanalytical Society 186, 187–8
Rath, Ännie 376
Raudszus, Bruno 340
Rauschning, Hermann 306, 307, 308
Rautenberg, Julie 3, 33, 91, 182, 363
Adorno inheritance 339
home of her own 332, 333, 339, 363
Maria Wiesengrund’s 81st birthday 264
money matters 48
social relationship 63
Ravel, Maurice 48
Rebner, Adolf 309
Rebner, Wolfgang Edward 308, 309, 318
Reinhardt, Gottfried 96
Reinheimer, Jane Constance 148, 149, 174, 175
Reis, Ludwig 173
Reynolds, Robert Rice 189, 190
Rockefeller Foundation 21, 22, 37, 287
Roosevelt, Eleanor 349
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 205
Rosanska (Kolisch), Josefa 6, 7, 44, 329, 330
Rosay, Françoise 370
Rossmann, Loisl 381
Rumpf, Josefine (Juliette) 270
Sade, Marquis de 125
Salomon, Bernhard 270
Salomon-Delatour, Gottfried 28, 30
Sanford, R. Nevitt 133
Schildkraut, Joseph 303, 304, 306
Schildkraut, Rudolf 303
Schneider, Mischa 125
Schoenberg, Arnold 73, 79, 100, 108, 151, 171, 309
Schoenberg, Gertrud (Mitzi, née Kolisch) 289, 290
Schröder, Alexander 138
Schröder Hanfstängel, Marie 170, 172
Schubert, Franz 261
Scitovszky, Tibor 356
Seele, Frau 14, 15, 244, 269, 278
Seligmann, Maria (née Kolisch) 146
Seligmann, Marie (Mietze, née Gans) 146, 187, 300–1, 346
Seligmann, Milton 35, 146, 154, 268, 271
death of 326
golden anniversary 277
in Switzerland 295
Seligmann, Walter Herbert 146
Sevilla, Emeranja 36
Simmel, Ernst 180, 187–8, 204;
AntiSemitism: A Social Disease 272
Simmel, Georg 45
Simpson, Wallis W. 59
Sinn, Carrie (née Frenkel) 1, 3, 26
Slawson, John 263
Smith, Gerald L. K. 190
Social Science Research Council 287
Solveg, Maria 316
Soviet Union: Hitler’s campaign in 80
pact with Hitler 16, 17, 26–7, 58
Spain 63
Spier, Julius 204
Stalin, Josef 26
Stein, Countess Marion Donata 371, 372
Stern (Anders), Günther: Theory of Needs seminar 101, 102
Sternberger, Dolf 250
Steuermann, Augusta 78, 80, 86, 111, 125
election party 205
at the piano 115
social visits 134
Steuermann, Eduard 38, 39, 51–2, 108, 135, 300, 317, 336
comforts Adornos 259
daughter’s mental health 315–16, 335
performs Bartók 47
teaching at Juilliard 369
Theory of Needs seminar 101, 102
Steuermann, Mausi 316, 317, 335
Steuermann, Salka see Viertel, Salomea
Stiedry-Wagner, Erika 373
Stokowski, Leopold 173
Stoltze, Adolf 378
Stravinsky, Igor 320
Taubler, Frau 14
Taylor, Davidson 141, 143, 147
Theory of Needs seminar 101, 102
Thomas, Martin Luther 156, 158, 162, 165
Thomson, Virgil 84, 85, 86, 143, 155, 306, 307, 320
letter of advice 104
Toscanini, Arturo 48
Tracy, Spencer 279
Truman, Harry S. 341
Tucholsky, Kurt 3
United States: Adorno on southern places 30–1
neutrality of 17
wartime immigrants and 97
University of California, Los Angeles 354
University of Southern California 343
Vercors (Jean Bruller) 155
Verlaine, Paul 257
Vetsera, Baroness Maria 186
Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy 145
Viertel, Berthold 78, 80, 125, 126, 134
Viertel, Salomea (Salka, née Steuermann) 78, 79, 80, 96, 167, 208
election party 205
Garbo for tea 170
Villinger, Arnold 14, 15, 19, 218, 219
Villinger, Franz 18, 165, 218, 219, 231
Villinger, Jenny (née Wiesengrund) 14, 15, 19, 191, 192, 218, 219, 231
Villinger, Leonore A. 168, 169
Vittorio Emanuele of Italy 227
Vlissi, Jascha 21
Tristan und Isolde 281
Wallace, Henry A. 341
Walter, Bruno 97, 173, 306, 312
Wamba, king of the Visigoths 94
Watt, Ian 286
Weber, Alfred 250
Weber, Carl Maria von 337
Weigel, Helene see Brecht, Helene Weil, Felix 112, 269
in Argentina 37
character of 40, 109, 230, 275
divorces fourth wife 288, 336, 339
entertains rich Frankfurters 367
first wife, Katharina 64
fourth wife, Helen 90, 275, 276
has puppies 361
helps Adornos move 354
helps with The Authoritarian Personality 365, 373
more zeal than understanding 232
as neighbour 104
new girlfriend 342
in New York 108
re-establishing institute 52
Weil, Helen (née Knopping) 90, 91, 275, 276
Weil, Katharina (née Bachert) 64
Weil, Lucille (née Jakobowitz) 90, 91
Weil, Margot (Motte) 34
Weinberg, May (née Forbes) 118
Wertheimber, Maus 234
Wertheimber family 215
Weygand, General Maxime 53, 55
Wheeler, Burton Kendall 189, 190
Wiesengrund, Bernhard (Bernard Wingfield) 220, 243
Wiesengrund, Maria Calvelli-Adorno: Adorno inheritance 339
Adorno visits en route to Paris 374
birthdays 21, 110, 112–13, 197–8, 233–4, 262, 381
Borodin and 355
emigrates to USA 33
health of 130
eye problems 276, 281, 284, 301–2, 351, 358–9, 366
housing problem 332
makes blanket 116
singing career 80, 86, 87, 296
US citizenship 216
worries about post-war anti-Semitism 344
Wiesengrund, Oscar: birthdays 64–5, 67, 105–6, 144–5, 190, 225–7;
emigrates to USA 33;
father’s firm 220
health of 109
eye troubles 235
final illness 250–3, 256, 257;
heart attack and recovery 177–86, 195, 202–3;
thrombosis 192
nicknames 9
on post-war anti-Semitism 248–9
Windsor, Duke of 58
Wingfield, Alexander Louis 18, 19
Wingfield, Bernard Theodore 18, 19
Wingfield, Lina 152
Wissing, Dr Egon 167, 169, 379
in Chicago 67
first wife 49
related to Benjamin 355
travelling home 244
Wissing, Liselotte (Lotte, née Karplus) 45, 46, 49, 55
in Chicago 67
visits Adornos in Los Angeles 289, 291, 292
Wolf, Max 11
Zickel, Reinhold 140
Zilzer, Lotte (née Mosbacher) 107, 112, 134, 141, 143, 151
Zilzer, Wolfgang (Paul Andor) 107