My father used to be a banker in Paris, but later he came to Berlin to become an antique dealer. Benjamin studied philosophy in Frejborg, Munich, Berlin and Bern. 19 19 received a doctorate from the university of Bern for the article "German Romantic Art Criticism", but failed to obtain the qualification of a university professor. His professor's thesis "The Origin of German Tragedy" was rejected by the University of Frankfurt, and the comment on it was "as incomprehensible as mud", but ironically, it has now become a classic of literary criticism in the 20th century.
Benjamin made a living as a freelance writer and translator in Berlin, and also studied psychopathology. 1933 was deported by the Nazis, moved to France, and became a member of the "Social Research Institute". In order to avoid the Gestapo, he moved to Portobe, a Spanish border town, in 1940, where he wrote many important works, such as On Goethe's Affinity, The Origin of German Tragedy, One-way Street, Works of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Childhood in Berlin around 1900 and so on. 19 17 married Dora Sophie Pollack (1890- 1964), and they separated in 1928, and divorced two years later. Benjamin's views on love and marriage show two sides: on the one hand, he loves and appreciates talented and independent women, such as Dora (Zionist activist) and Rasis (Latvian Bolshevik woman), such as Euler (middle school classmate Cohen's sister, sculptor). 1940 On September 27th, he was forced to commit suicide in a border town in Spain.