Kurt Tucholsky

Kurt Tucholsky was born in 1890 in Berlin, the son of a Jewish bank clerk, and spent part of his childhood in Stettin. A soldier in the Great War, he became one of the most prominent publicists of the Weimar Republic and for a time co-edited the weekly Die Weltbühne. He wrote under his own name and four pseudonyms, each with its own tone, and attacked reactionary judges, officers and the right relentlessly. Settled in Sweden in 1929, he was stripped of his nationality in 1933, his books were burned, and he died in Gothenburg in 1935.

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• Short storiesDas Lächeln der Mona LisaKurt Tucholsky · 1929not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain