Böcker av Kurt Tucholsky

A beguiling fable about a summer holiday in the Swedish countryside that transforms into a provocative parable about oppression and the evil awaiting Europe as the Nazis came to power.Castle Gripsholm, the best and most beloved work by Kurt Tucholsky, is a short novel about an enchanted summer holiday. It begins with an assignment: Tucholsky's publisher wants him to write something light and funny, otherwise about whatever Tucholsky wants. A deal is struck and the story is off: about Peter, a writer; his girlfriend, known as the Princess; and a summer vacation far from the hurly-burly of Berlin. Peter and the Princess have rented a small house attached to a historic castle in Sweden, and they have five weeks of long days and white nights at their disposal; five weeks for swimming and walking and sex and talking and visits with Peter's buddy Karlchen and with Billie, the Princess's best friend. It is perfect, until they meet a weeping girl fleeing the cruel headmistress of a home for children. The vacationers decide they must free the girl and send her back to her mother in Switzerland, which brings about an encounter with authority that casts a worrying shadow over their radiant summer idyll. Soon they must return to Germany. What kind of fairy tale are they living in?

Berlin! Berlin! is a satirical selection from the "man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy," as New York author and Tucholsky-expert Peter Wortsman writes. This book os a complete collection of Tucholsky's news stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his hometown Berlin. It depicts Weimar Berlin, its cabarets, its policies, its follies, its ticks, and its celebrities, such as Pola Negri, Gussy Holl, Bert Brecht, Max Reinhardt, or Heinrich Zille. The book contains some of Tucholsky's most famous pieces, among them Berlin! Berlin!, a feature of the stereotypical Berliner on the phone, on vacation or doing "bizness", more than one satirical biography of the author himself, and some of his most famed stories such as where the holes in the cheese come from, or about the lion who escaped the Berlin zoo. Herr Wendriner, the chatty Berlin businessman makes an appearance, as well as Lottchen, the flapper, modelled after one of Tucholsky's real-life gilrfriends. Also Tucholsky's long-term friends Karlchen and Jakopp are part of this book.

Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures, loved by his many readers and hated by the Nazis. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920s Berlin still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. But he was more than just an angry truth-teller; he was also one of the funniest satirical writers of his era, depicting everyday lives during the rise of modernity.The iconic translation of Harry Zohn, a literary figure from Vienna himself, presented Tucholsky to an American audience for the first time. Long out of print, Zohn's book is now being republished in a new edition. Kurt Tucholsky made his name as one of the Weimar era's most acid, incisive satirists; but to read this panoramic selection of essays, monologues, dialogues and aphorisms is to be reminded that he was also a brilliant literary shape-shifter, able to take on the persona of an embryo, a squirrel, a suite of pulp novels, or a prophet of post-apocalyptic hope with equal felicity. "In Europe, a man is a citizen once and an alien twenty-two times. A wise man is an alien twenty-three times," he wrote. His words sound alarmingly poignant today. -- George Prochnik, author of "Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem" Tucholsky's wit and his courage, his extraordinary sensitivity to language, and the timeliness of his writing have not waned a bit, even eight decades later.-- Noah Isenberg, Professor of Culture and Media at The New School for Liberal Arts, New York City Imagine a writer with the acid voice of Christopher Hitchens and the satirical whimsy of Jon Stewart, combined with the iconoclasm of Bill Maher. That's Tucholsky in a nutshell.-- Anne Nelson, author of "The Red Orchestra" and "The Guys" In Weimar Germany, Tucholsky was big, the most brilliant, prolific and witty cultural journalist of his time. He poured scorn on the reactionary institutions of the old regime, the follies of the Weimar Republic, and the peculiarities of the German character.-- William Grimes, The New York Times Tucholsky's writing is similar to that of Heinrich Heine, his role model, in that it appears superficially simple but is replete with hidden meanings. His works are touching, stirring, and precisely to the point.-- Peter Appelbaum MD, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Pennsylvania State University "Kurt Tucholsky was one of the most brilliant German Jewish writers and satirists of his time. The world has yet to discover his genius."--Peter Schneider, author of The Wall Jumper and Eduard's Homecoming

Kurt Tucholsky: Rheinsberg. Ein Bilderbuch für VerliebteLesefreundlicher Großdruck in 16-pt-SchriftGroßformat, 210 x 297 mmBerliner Ausgabe, 2019Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor BorkenErstdruck: 1912.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Wilhelm Loeillot, nach einer Originalaufnahme von Theodor Hennicke, Lithographie des Schlosses Rheinsberg, 1857 und 1883.Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 16 pt.Henricus Edition Deutsche Klassik UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Schloß Gripsholm. Eine Sommergeschichte lautet der Titel einer Erzählung, die Kurt Tucholsky im Jahre 1931 veröffentlichte. Die heiter-melancholische Liebesgeschichte zählt zu den bekanntesten Werken des Autors und erinnert an sein Romandebüt Rheinsberg: Ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte. Das Buch beginnt mit dem Abdruck eines fiktiven Briefwechsels zwischen dem Autor und seinem Verleger, Ernst Rowohlt, dessen Unterschrift Tucholsky mit "Ernst (Riesenschnörkel) Rowohlt" wiedergibt. Darin regt Rowohlt Tucholsky an, doch mal wieder eine leichte und heitere Liebesgeschichte zu schreiben, während jener um ein höheres Honorar feilscht. Die sich anschließende Erzählung handelt vom Sommerurlaub des Erzählers mit seiner Freundin Lydia, von ihm zumeist nur "die Prinzessin" genannt, in Schweden. Nach der Zug- und Fährfahrt und einigem Suchen kommen beide im Schloss Gripsholm an, in dem sie etwa drei Wochen verbringen. In ihrer Sommerfrische erhalten sie nacheinander Besuch von Kurts altem Kameraden und Freund Karlchen sowie von Lydias bester Freundin Billie... Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) war ein deutscher Journalist und Schriftsteller.Tucholsky zählt zu den bedeutendsten Publizisten der Weimarer Republik. Als politisch engagierter Journalist und zeitweiliger Mitherausgeber der Wochenzeitschrift Die Weltbühne erwies er sich als Gesellschaftskritiker in der Tradition Heinrich Heines. Zugleich war er Satiriker, Kabarettautor, Liedtexter, Romanautor, Lyriker und Kritiker. Er verstand sich selbst als linker Demokrat, Sozialist, Pazifist und Antimilitarist und warnte vor der Erstarkung der politischen Rechten - vor allem in Politik, Militär und Justiz.

No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, quite like he did. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany's best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writing is similar to that of Heinrich Heine, his role model, in that it appears superficially simple but is replete with hidden meanings. His works are touching, stirring, and precisely to the point. He brings alive the war that still looms even into our own 21st century. This is the first bilingual anthology in German and in English of his works on World War I.The First World War was the "Great War". Everything that happened after this war, even into our own 21st century, is contingent on the years between 1914 and 1918. The Great War also shaped Kurt Tucholsky who emerged from the war.. His style is biting, satirical, and penetrating, full of Berlin gallows humor. This bilingual anthology contains English translation of his short stories as well as a rendition of his poetry about World War I, all representative of his style.

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