biography
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Tucholsky, Kurt
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pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobold Tiger, Ignaz Wrobel
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pronunciation:
[tookholskee]
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| lived:
| (1890–1935)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied law, then served in World War 1, after which he worked on the periodical Schaubühne (later Die Weltbühne), which evolved from a theatre magazine to a political one under his editorship. His prose and poetry is full of bitter satire directed at the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic, and among his best-known works are Fromme Gesänge (1919), Ein Pyranäenbuch (1927), Lerne lachen ohne zu weinen (1931), and the humorous novel Schloss Gripsholm (1931). He emigrated to Sweden in 1929 where, weakened after a long illness and saddened by the political situation in Germany, he committed suicide in 1935. |
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