{"title":"Kurt Tucholsky","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"berlin-berlin-dispatches-from-the-weimar-republic-paperback","title":"Berlin! Berlin!: Dispatches from the Weimar Republic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin! 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 Kästner. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlinica Publishing LLC is a multi-media publishing house based in New York City; with its sister company Berlinica Publishing UG based in Berlin. Berlinica offers English-language books from Germany, fiction and non-fiction, mostly about history, also as e-books. Upcoming is \"Our West-Berlin\" and \"Springtime in America,\" by Roda Roda, the first book of a series by Weimar writers in the new world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlinica titles include Kurt Tucholsky's books \"Berlin! Berlin!,\" \"Germany? Germany!,\" \"Rheinsberg,\" \"Hereafter,\" and \"Prayer After the Slaughter,\" a series of dramas from the Weimar Republic, a book about Mark Twain in Berlin, \"Berlin 1945\" with historic black-and-white pictures from the Soviet Army archives and \"Berlin in the Cold War\" . Berlinica also offers the comprehensive history book \"Jews in Berlin\" as well as \"A Place They Called Home,\" about the children of German Jews returning. We sell \"The Berlin Wall Today,\" a full-color guide to the remnants of the Wall by Michael Cramer and \"The Berlin Cookbook,\" a full-color collection of traditional German recipes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur program also includes the music CD \"Berlin-mon amour,\" by chanteuse Adrienne Haan, and two documentaries on DVD, \"The Red Orchestra,\" by Berlin-born artist Stefan Roloff and \"The Path to Nuclear Fission,\" by New York filmmaker Rosemarie Reed. Berlinica also sells books beyond Berlin, namely a travel guide to Martin Luther and a book on the 1000-year anniversary of Leipzig.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366644285663,"sku":"9781935902201","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NJ1wA19LIC9781935902201.webp?v=1789095221"},{"product_id":"germany-germany-satirical-writings-the-kurt-tucholsky-reader-paperback","title":"Germany? Germany!: Satirical Writings: The Kurt Tucholsky Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKurt Tucholsky\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 political and cultural world of 1920s Berlin, still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. As an angry truth-teller, he pierced the hypocrisy and corruption around him with acute honesty. 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. Like Hitchens, Tucholsky wrote a mixture of literary essays, social observations, and political commentary. His irony made the line between his \"serious writing\" and his \"entertainments\" almost invisible. The fashionable outsider watched the political \"center\" disappear, and, in the end, he found himself catapulted out of society altogether. His career was sandwiched between the two most deadly events of his century: the bloodbath of World War I and the scourge of Nazism. Just as the first war launched Hemingway's lifelong career as a wounded tough guy with a soft spot for guns and broads, Tucholsky discovered the reflexes of an escape artist. He was equally elusive as a writer. In today's world, a journalist isn't supposed to write plays, and a playwright isn't welcomed as a novelist. But in 1920s Berlin, Tucholsky was dealing with postwar realities that required shouting from the rooftops, and any rooftop would do. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKurt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368231764191,"sku":"9783960260868","price":21.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/z6gKhQAYeS9783960260868.webp?v=1789125070"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/kurt-tucholsky.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}