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.

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.

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