Kurt Tucholsky was a was a brilliant satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist, and Democrat; a fighter, lady's man, one of the most famous journalists in Weimar Germany, and an early warner against the Nazis. Erich Kaestner called him a "small, fat Berliner," who "wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter". When Tucholsky began to write, he had five voices-in the end, he had none. His books were burned and banned by the Nazis, who drove him out of his country. But he is not forgotten. Ian King was awarded a doctorate in 1977 by his home university, Glasgow in Scotland, for his thesis on Kurt Tucholsky's political development, which was also published in Germany. He has written on Tucholsky for British academic journals, an American literary encyclopaedia and recently for the German Dictionary of National Biographies. He was also co-editor of Volume 3 of Tucholsky's Complete Works and has lectured on the subject in the UK, Germany, Israel and Norway. He co-edits the conference volumes of the Kurt Tucholsky Society, was its vice-chair from 2005 to 2009 and has been chair since then. He was a professor of German in Sheffield and London and now works as a translator. Anne Nelson is the author of The Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler. She teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
In Weimar Germany, Tucholsky was big, the most brilliant, prolific
and witty cultural journalist of his time.-William Grimes, The New
York Times
"Kurt Tucholsky was one of the most brilliant German Jewish writers
and satirists of his time. He had to leave his beloved Berlin
because of his biting, yet witty stories against militarism and
Nazi Fascism. Today's Berliners adore him as one of the greatest
sons of this city. The world has yet to discover his genius."-Peter
Schneider, author of The Wall Jumper and Eduard's Homecoming
"A representative selection from the man with the acid pen and the
perfect pitch for hypocrisy, who was as much the voice of 1920s
Berlin as Georg Grosz was its face."-Peter Wortsman, Author of A
Modern Way to Die and Ghost Dance in Berlin
"Kurt Tucholsky was one of the most brilliant writers of republican
Germany...More than any other person, he foresaw what was
coming....What his readers had enjoyed as the capricious fantasies
of a clever satirist has now been enacted in bitter reality, even
to a satirical forecast of his own mode of death."-From the New
York Times' 1936 Obituary
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