The departure of pierrots. Siegfried Kracauer and the power of coincidence
The text is a short commentary to the Polish translations of selected Weimar essays written by Siegfried Kracauer in the 1920s and 1930s. The analysis of popular culture undertaken by the Frankfurter is based on particular examples – ‘cases’ picked out from the life of the urban tissue – and at the same time it represents a bright assessment of the present social and cultural changes. An example of such careful observations with a punch line aimed at different current conditions are among others the texts commenting on circus events – including performances of the famous Fratellini group. In his analysis and commentaries Kracauer shows the emancipatory nature of the popular culture and at the same time determines the direction for further research carried out against a clear division between elite and egalitarian content and groups of recipients.

The departure of pierrots. Siegfried Kracauer and the power of coincidence
The text is a short commentary to the Polish translations of selected Weimar essays written by Siegfried Kracauer in the 1920s and 1930s. The analysis of popular culture undertaken by the Frankfurter is based on particular examples – ‘cases’ picked out from the life of the urban tissue – and at the same time it represents a bright assessment of the present social and cultural changes. An example of such careful observations with a punch line aimed at different current conditions are among others the texts commenting on circus events – including performances of the famous Fratellini group. In his analysis and commentaries Kracauer shows the emancipatory nature of the popular culture and at the same time determines the direction for further research carried out against a clear division between elite and egalitarian content and groups of recipients.