Berlin! Berlin! Dispatches From The Weimar Republic, Berlin Stories from the Golden Twenties. (Kurt Tucholsky in Translation) - Softcover

Kurt Tucholsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935902202 ISBN 13: 9781935902201

Publisher: Berlinica, 2013

Synopsis

Berlin! Berlin! is a satirical selection from the man with the "acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy,” as New York author and Tucholsky-expert Peter Wortsman writes. This book os a complete collection of Tucholsky’s news stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his hometown Berlin. It depicts Weimar Berlin, its cabarets, its policies, its follies, its ticks, and its celebrities, such as Pola Negri, Claire Waldoff, Bertold Brecht, Max Reinhardt, or Heinrich Zille. The book contains some of Tucholsky’s most famous pieces, among them Berlin! Berlin!, a feature of the stereotypical Berliner on the phone, on vacation or doing “bizness”, more than one satirical biography of the author himself, and some of his most famed stories such as where the holes in the cheese come from, or about the lion who escaped the Berlin zoo. Herr Wendriner, the chatty Berlin businessman makes an appearance, as well as Lottchen, the flapper, modelled after one of Tucholsky’s real-life gilrfriends. Also Tucholsky’s long-term friends Karlchen and Jakopp are part of this book,

The foreword was written by Anne Nelson, the author of “The Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler”. Ian King, the distinguished chair of the Kurt-Tucholsky-Society and a former professor of German in London and Sheffield, who wrote his Ph. D. on Tucholsky and is the co-editor of Volume 3 of Tucholsky’s Complete Works provided a biographical introduction. “His writings still have lessons for us today,” King writes, “that a man who might have preferred to write idylls, humorous pieces and unpolitical verse instead devoted his life to fighting against injustice and arguing passionately against the addiction to military uniforms which afflicted too many of his compatriots.”

Peter Schneider, the author of the Berlin novel "Walljumper" writes about this book: “Kurt Tucholsky was one of the most brilliant German-Jewish writers and satirists of his time. He had to leave his beloved Berlin because of his biting, witty stories against militarism and Nazi Fascism. Today’s Berliners adore him as one of the greatest sons of this city. The world has yet to discover his genius.” This collection of Tucholsky’s stories, with many pictures of the old and the new Berlin has never been published in America—or in English—before. This book will hopefully help to rediscover the famed writer in the United States.

Kurt Tucholsky's Berlin Stories is a book by Berlinica Publishing LLC, a multi-media publishing house based in New York City. Berlinica offers English-language books from Berlin, German; fiction, non-fiction, travel guides, history about the Wall and the Third Reich, Jewish life, art, architecture and photography, as well as books about nightlife, cookbooks, and maps. It also offers documentaries and feature films on DVD, as well as music CDs. Berlinica caters to history buffs, Americans of German heritage, travelers, and artists and young people who love the cutting-edge city in the heart of Europe. Berlinica cooperates with Berlin-based publishing houses and tourist organizers.

Berlinica's titles include "The Berlin Wall Today," a full-color guide to the remnants of the Wall, "Wallflower," a novel by New-York-born writer Holly-Jane Rahlens; "Berlin For Free," a guide to everything free in Berlin for the frugal traveler by Monica Maertens; "Berlin in the Cold War," about post-World War II history and the Wall, "The Berlin Cookbook," a full-color collection of traditional German recipes by Rose Marie Donhauser, 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 "Stadtführer to Hitler's Berlin", a bi-langual color picture book.

About this title

From the Author:

Why Kurt Tucholsky? And why now?
Ask most Americans for their impression of Berlin in the 1920s, and they'll come up with images from "Cabaret." Liza Minelli's "divine decadence" suggested a blend of naughty Moulin Rouge and tawdry Las Vegas. Today this seems like a distant past. But 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.

From the foreword by Anne Nelson

From the Back Cover:

Kurt Tucholsky was a brilliant reporter, satirist, poet, lyricist, and storyteller of the Weimar Republic, a pacifist and a democrat, a fighter, lady's man, theater-lover, and political animal, who sounded an early warning against the Nazis. They hated and loathed Tucholsky, and drove him out of his country. The famed journalist became an outcast and enemy of the state. His books were burned and banned in 1933; he died alone in Sweden.But he is not forgotten. This extraordinary and funny book features Tucholsky's stories and essays about his hometown, Berlin, published for the first time in the United States.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berlinica
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1935902202
• ISBN 13: 9781935902201
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 204