Reading with actor Jürgen Zartmann

Kurt Tucholsky (1890 - 1935) was a German writer who was one of the most important publicists of the Weimar Republic. He published under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.

As a politically committed journalist and temporary co-editor of the weekly magazine Die Weltbühne, Tucholsky proved to be a social critic in the tradition of Heinrich Heine. He was also a satirist, cabaret writer, songwriter, novelist, poet and critic. He saw himself as a left-wing democrat, socialist, pacifist and anti-militarist and warned against the strengthening of the political right - especially in politics, the military and the judiciary - and against the threat of National Socialism.