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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 Germany after his books were burned in 1933. His contemporary Erich Kaestner called him a "small, fat Berliner," who "wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter." The New York Times hailed him as "one of the most brilliant writers of republican Germany. He was a poet as well as a critic and was so versatile that he used five or six pen names. As Peter Panter he was an outstanding essayist who at one time wrote topical sketches in the Vossische Zeitung, which ceased to appear under the Nazi regime; as Theobald Tiger he wrote satirical poems that were frequently interpreted by popular actors in vaudeville and cabartes, and as Ignatz Wrobel he contributed regularly to the Weltbühne, an independent weekly that was one of the first publications prohibited by the Hitler government." Tucholsky, who occupied the center stage in the tumultuous polit

Troubled artist

He was restless and broken, a master of self-dramatization, elegant, spirited, charming, a partygoer and a heartbreaker. But above all, he was an author and critic of his time. Kurt Tucholsky, who lived from 1890 to 1935, studied law before completely dedicating himself to writing.

The work that shot him to sudden fame in 1912 was "Rheinsberg," a playful, lightly erotic story that became a bestseller. The author had thought up a story that he knew would sell. Together with his friend, illustrator Kurt Szafranski, he opened up a temporary "book bar" on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Each customer who purchased a copy of "Rheinsberg" got a free glass of schnapps.

The bar didn't stay open for very long, but the book continued to sell.

Journalist and soldier

Soon after that, Tucholsky published his first article. He also took on a number of pseudonyms, which he used for the various newspapers he wrote for: Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger, and Ignaz Wrobel. He was a man with many faces and later used the name Kaspar Hauser as well.

Tucholsky's journalistic

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Kurt Tucholsky

January 09, 1890 - December 21, 1935

Kurt Tucholsky 

Kurt Tucholsky joined the magazine Die Schaubühne as a law student in 1913 and was soon its most important writer. He also published pieces under the pseudonyms Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger, and Ignaz Wrobel. After fighting in World War I, he was active on behalf of the opposition party USPD and the Peace League of War Veterans. He also became editor-in-chief of Ulk, the satire supplement of the Berliner Tageblatt. Tucholsky continued to write for Die Weltbühne, adding Kasper Hauser to his list of pseudonyms. With a sharp tongue and often cutting humor, he criticized the right wing and the National Socialist movement. In 1924 he went to Paris as a correspondent for Die Weltbühne and the Vossische Zeitung. Following the death of the Weltbühne publisher, he returned to Berlin in 1926 and ran the magazine for a short time. A

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