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Trained and working in the Frankfurt School tradition, Professor Wellmer (who taugh at the Free University in Berlin) was especially interested in issues of aesthetic theory, and was also a critic of postmodernism. A memorial in German is here.
(Thanks to Alexander Stingl for the pointer.)
UPDATE: A remembrance from philosopher Joseph Shieber (Lafayette).
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