Walter Landauer was born on 31 August 1902 in Berlin. As a student in Frankfurt am Main he became acquainted with Fritz H. Landshoff and Hermann Kesten. From 1927 onwards, Walter Landauer was a lector at the Gustav-Kiepenheuer publishing company, that was shortly before taken over by Landshoff. When the general elections of 1930 turned out to be a victory for the NSDAP, Landauer, Landshoff and Kes…