One summer before World War I, a young couple escapes on a romantic
weekend getaway to the small German town of Rheinsberg, north of
Berlin, in the midst of a rural landscape filled with country
houses and castles, cobble-stone streets, lush forests, and dreamy
lakes. The story of Wolfie and Claire, told with a fresh, new style
of ironic humor, became Kurt Tucholsky s first literary success and
the blueprint for love for an entire generation. 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. Rheinsberg is at once a
delightful and a deeply disquieting story. The lovers, Claire and
Wolfie a silly but harmless pair escape the confines of Berlin for
a romantic romp in the countryside. As their brief interlude nears
its end, already consigned to memory, there comes with it an end to
innocence, to frivolity. It was 1912; Kurt Tucholsky s prescience
was uncanny: the holiday is over and soon we will go to war.
--Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Hester Among the Ruins and The
Scenic Route Once known as Weimar Germany s greatest political
satirist and one of that fabled era s most celebrated literary
figures, Kurt Tucholsky is today virtually unknown in America. Now,
readers have the chance to discover one of his early pieces of
fiction that exhibits the intense wit, charm, and rhetorical verve
for which he earned his reputation. Noah Isenberg, author of
Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism
In Rheinsberg, Tucholsky delivers the newness and intensity of
young love, sweet, sometimes strident, with repartee juxtaposed
against the sylvan landscape of rural Germany. Poignant, biting,
tender: a reminder of what love promises and can be. Victoria
Zackheim, playwright, novelist, and anthologist A wonderful and
charming love story, finally rediscovered and brought to America
Claudia Dreifus, Professor of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University, New York Teachers and students of history and
literature will welcome this collection of texts by Kurt Tucholsky,
an early 20th century master of literary and political criticism,
whose incisive and elegant voice will now be more widely available
in English. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History at Cooper Union
and author of Jews, Germans and Allies: Close Encounters in
Occupied Germany Rheinsberg a short story of two unconventional
lovers in the last carefree days of Germany before 1914. The first
major work by the anti-Nazi journalist and poet Kurt Tucholsky
finally appears in a new translation for English speakers. Ian
King, Professor of German, Chair of the Kurt Tucholsky Society
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