Among the founding members of the group, which first had no name, were: •
F. W. Bernstein (1938–2018) • (born 1949) •
Robert Gernhardt (1937–2006) • (born 1941) • (born 1939) • (1930–2004) • (born 1929) •
F. K. Waechter (1937–2005) The name Neue Frankfurter Schule was chosen in memory of the philosophical
Frankfurter Schule (Frankfurt School) around
Max Horkheimer and
Theodor W. Adorno, among others, which had pursued a critical theory of society in the 1930s. The name Neue Frankfurter Schule alludes firstly to Frankfurt as a centre for many members and the publication of
Titanic. Secondly, the name is a satiric allusion to the Franfurter Schule. Thirdly, serious similarities connect the NFS to the critical theory of the former group. regards
cultural critic as the focus of the NFS, Michael Rutschky noted that the satirical conscience ("satirisches Bewußtsein") of the NFS is the focus of the Frankfurter Schule. The name was chosen years after the forming of the group, in 1981, when a good name was needed for an exhibition of works by Gernhardt, Traxlera and Waechter. A second generation of NFS members has included
Max Goldt, , , , , Duo and, after the
Peaceful Revolution, . In 2006, the city of Frankfurt acquired c. 7,000 original drawings by Bernstein, Gernhardt, Traxler and Poth for a new museum of comic art, the
Caricatura Museum Frankfurt, which was opened on 1 October 2008 as an independent department of the
Historical Museum. == Literature ==