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Gesamtausgabe Texte und Briefe 14: Texte 1931
Im Mai 1931 erschien «Schloß Gripsholm» (in einem textkritischen Apparat werden die Lesarten des Vorabdrucks im «Berliner Tageblatt» und des Typoskripts dargelegt). Tucholsky schrieb in diesem Jahr Feuilletons, rezensierte z. B. Fallada («Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben») und Upton Sinclair. Eine Reihe von Aufsätzen, Gedichten und Aphorismen nimmt mit scharfer Kritik und satirisch-polemischem Spott Justiz und Strafvollzug oder militärisches Denken ins Visier. Wiederholt setzt er sich mit dem Katholizismus auseinander. Zu nennen sind nicht zuletzt jene Texte, in denen sich Tucholsky mit der politischen Kultur und der Stimmung im Deutschland der Wirtschaftskrise und der autoritären Notverordnungspolitik am Vorabend der
nationalsozialistischen Machtübernahme beschäftigt.
nationalsozialistischen Machtübernahme beschäftigt.
766 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 1998
About the author
Kurt Tucholsky
515 books126 followersKurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger, and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.
Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of the Weimar Republic. As a politically engaged journalist and temporary co-editor of the weekly magazine Die Weltbühne he proved himself to be a social critic in the tradition of Heinrich Heine. He was simultaneously a satirist, an author of satirical political revues, a songwriter, and a poet. He saw himself as a left-wing democrat and pacifist and warned against anti-democratic tendencies—above all in politics, the military, and justice—and the threat of National Socialism. His fears were confirmed when the Nazis came to power in 1933: his books were listed on the Nazi's censorship as "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") and burned, and he lost his German citizenship.
Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of the Weimar Republic. As a politically engaged journalist and temporary co-editor of the weekly magazine Die Weltbühne he proved himself to be a social critic in the tradition of Heinrich Heine. He was simultaneously a satirist, an author of satirical political revues, a songwriter, and a poet. He saw himself as a left-wing democrat and pacifist and warned against anti-democratic tendencies—above all in politics, the military, and justice—and the threat of National Socialism. His fears were confirmed when the Nazis came to power in 1933: his books were listed on the Nazi's censorship as "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") and burned, and he lost his German citizenship.
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