ABSTRACT
On Frankfurt’s oldest square, Am Romer, there is a plaque cemented in the ground. It has engraved the words of the poet Heinrich Heine who cautions “That was only a prelude; where they burn books, they ultimately burn people”. Awarded by the city of Frankfurt in 1930, Sigmund Freud had to send his daughter Anna to receive it, because of his failing health. The ceremony officially recognised Freud for the first time in the German language space and proceded in spite of anti-Semitic protests outside the city hall. Among the few books Freud conserved from his childhood were those of Ludwig Borne. Borne was the first author Freud would enter in depth. Formerly Juda Low Baruch, he was the Heinrich Heine of Frankfurt.
