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Kurt Tucholsky was a German journalist, satirist, and writer.

Kurt Tucholsky was a brilliant satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist, and Democrat; a fighter, lady's man, reporter, and early warner against the.

Tucholsky was born of Jewish parents in Berlin.

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The Man Who Tried to Whistle Against an Ocean: Kurt Tucholsky, 1890-1935

Two Germanies

So who was Kurt Tucholsky? In 1926 he wrote: "As far as I can remember, on 9 January 1890 I was born in Berlin as an employee of [the weekly magazine] Weltbühne. According to [the daily newspaper] 'Miesbacher Anzeiger,' my ancestors still sat on trees and picked their noses. I myself am living quietly and peacefully in Paris, play 'Schafkopf' with Doumergue and Briand for half an hour every day after lunch, which I find not hard to do, and in this life I only have one small wish: to one day see the roles of German political prisoners and their judges inverted" (GW4: 304-305).

The brilliant stylist Alex Cockburn once recalled that during job interviews he would ask all his prospective interns the question: "Is your hate pure?" Allegedly, former Labour party leader Ed Miliband's answer to that question was a stutter followed by the words "I don't hate anyone!" Which was, according to Cockburn, all you needed to know about the son of the famous Marxist scholar. In contrast to Ed Miliband, Tucholsky's love for the popular masses was so strong that his hatred for the ruling classes was infinite. Born into an upwardly mobile, bourgeois J

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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 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