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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. Kurt Tucholsky was a brilliant
reporter, satirist, poet, lyricist, and storyteller of the Weimar
Republic, a pacifist and a democrat; a fighter, lady's man, theater
lover, political animal, and also an early warner against the
Nazis. They hated and loathed Tucholsky, and drove him out of his
country. The famed journalist became an outcast, an enemy of the
state. His books were burned and banned in 1933, he died alone in
Sweden. But he is not forgotten.With this extraordinary and also
funny book, Tucholsky's work about his hometown Berlin is published
for the first time in the United States.
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Berlin! Berlin! (Paperback)
Kurt Tucholsky; Introduction by Ian King; Foreword by Anne Nelson
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R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Berlin Berlin is a satirical 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. It shines a light on
the Weimar Republic and the post-World War I struggle, which
fore-shadowed the Third Reich. Kurt Tucholsky was a brilliant
satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist, and Democrat; a
fighter, lady's man, reporter, and early warner against the Nazis
who hated and loathed him and drove him out of his country. He was
a "small, fat Berliner," who "wanted to stop a catastrophe with his
typewriter," wrote his contemporary, Erich Kastner. When he began
to write, he had five voices-in the end, he had none. He was one of
the most famous journalists in Weimar Germany, surrounded by women,
but he died alone in Sweden, an enemy of the state, among the first
authors whose books were burned and banned by the Nazis in 1933.
But he is not forgotten. This book collects Tucholsky's news
stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his home town
Berlin, never published in America before. With a foreword by New
York author Anne Nelson and an introduction by Ian King, the chair
of the Kurt-Tucholsky-Society.
'Denn nichts ist schwerer und nichts erfordert mehr Charakter, als
sich in offenem Gegensatz zu seiner Zeit zu befinden und laut zu
sagen: Nein.' (Tucholsky, 6. Oktober 1921) Kurt Tucholsky war einer
der bedeutendsten Publizisten der Weimarer Republik. Er war
vehementer Verfechter der Demokratie und kampfte zeit seines Lebens
gegen die Feinde der Republik. Personlich konfrontiert mit
menschenverachtender Brutalitat im Ersten Weltkrieg, verstand er
sich seitdem als linker Demokrat, Pazifist und Antimilitarist.
Obwohl er fruh die Gefahr erkannte, die von der politischen Rechten
drohte, wandte er sich von der Politik ab und versuchte die
Menschen literarisch zu erreichen. In dieser Sammlung seiner
Artikel, die fast alle unter Pseudonymen erschienen, lasst sich
Tucholskys ganze Genialitat erkennen. Pointiert kommentiert er die
Geschehnisse in Kultur und Politik und regt bei aller Ironie nicht
nur zum Schmunzeln an, sondern vor allem zum Nachdenken. Mit einem
Vorwort von Arne Schrothe.
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende
Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als
gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient
zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
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