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.
With a foreword by New York author Anne Nelson and an introduction by Ian King, the chair of the Kurt-Tucholsky-Society..
This book collects Tucholsky\'s news stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his home town Berlin, never published in America before.
But he is not forgotten.
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.
When he began to write, he had five voices-in the end, he had none.
He was a small, fat Berliner, who wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter, wrote his contemporary, Erich Kästner.
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.
It shines a light on the Weimar Republic and the post-World War
I struggle, which fore¬shadowed the Third Reich.
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
