Dora y Walter Benjamin

Dora Sophie Kellner was a journalist, translator and writer. Educated in the cultured and liberal environment of a wealthy Central European Jewish family, she studied chemistry and philosophy in Berlin; There in 1914 she met the philosopher Walter Benjamin, whom she married in 1917 after divorcing her first husband. Dora she collaborated in prestigious publications of her time, interested in the most disparate topics, such as female emancipation, avant-garde literature, music in silent films or the social ups and downs of the Weimar Republic. Her stormy marriage to Walter Benjamin, in which mutual infidelities, disagreements and extreme material difficulties abounded, ended in 1930. Years later, when German Jews saw their rights restricted and their lives threatened, Dora not only helped the philosopher financially, Rather, he struggled to find refuge for him in exile. This biography rescues unpublished aspects of a woman of extraordinary talent and sensitivity, unfairly overshadowed by Benjamin's shadow, and endowed with an independent character with which she faced bourgeois norms while Germany plunged into the hell of Nazism