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Introduction
Benjamin, Walter
Bismarck, Otto v.
Brecht, Bertolt
Celan, Paul
Döblin, Alfred
Fontane, Theodor
Grosz, George
Grünbein, Durs
Heartfield, John
Honigmann, Barbara
Isherwood, Christopher
Johnson, Uwe
Kleist, Heinrich v.
Kollwitz, Käthe
Kracauer, Siegfried
Lang, Fritz
Lasker-Schüler, Else
Liebermann, Max
Liebknecht, Karl
Luxemburg, Rosa
Marc, Franz
Ossietzky, Carl v.
Riefenstahl, Leni
Ruttmann, Walther
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
Speer, Albert
Tieck, Ludwig
Tucholsky, Kurt
Ury, Lesser
Varnhagen, Rahel
Wenders, Wim
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Tucholsky, Kurt
b. Jan. 9, 1890, Berlin
d. Dec. 21, 1935, Hindas, near Göteborg, Sweden
pseudonyms Theobald Tiger, Peter Panter, Ignaz Wrobel, and Kaspar Hauser:
German satirical essayist, poet, and critic, best-known for his cabaret songs.
After studying law and serving in World War I, Tucholsky left Germany in 1924 and
lived first in Paris and after 1929 in Sweden. He contributed to Rote Signale (1931;
"Red Signals"), a collection of communist poetry, and to Schaubühne, later Die
Weltbühne, a journal published by the pacifist Carl von Ossietzky. In 1933
Tucholsky's works were denounced by the Nazi government and banned, and he was
stripped of his German citizenship. He committed suicide in 1935.
Tucholsky's output includes aphorisms, book and drama reviews, light verse, short
stories, and witty satirical essays in which he criticized German militarism and
nationalism and the dehumanizing forces of the modern age. His poetry was set to
music and performed widely in German cabarets.
Source
"Tucholsky, Kurt" Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
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