It was thanks to Wedekind's success that the tradition of German satirical writing was established in the theatre, producing the cabaret-song satirists Kurt Tucholsky, Walter Mehring, Joachim Ringelnatz and Erich Kästner among others, who invigorated the culture of the Weimar Republic ; " all bitter social critics who used direct, stinging satire as the best means of attack and wrote a large part of their always intelligible light verse to be declaimed or sung.

Friedrich Engels and Kurt Tucholsky both wrote for Vorwärts.

After meeting Tucholsky, Brod's friend and fellow author Franz Kafka had this to say about him in his diary:

In it, Tucholsky managed to combine vicious attacks on everything he disliked about Germany in his days with a declaration of love for his country.

Keun received great acclaim for her sharp-witted books, most notably from such well-known authors as Alfred Döblin and Kurt Tucholsky, who said about her, " A woman writer with humor, check this out !".

* Kurt Tucholsky, B. Traven Kurt Tucholsky about Traven ( review ), Die Weltbühne of 25 November 1930

In 1999, Flora Brovina was recipient of the annual Tucholsky Award of the Swedish PEN Club, a prize which has been awarded to other writers of note such as Salman Rushdie, Adam Zagajevski, Nuruddin Farah, Taslima Nasrin, Shirali Nurmuadov and Vincent Magombe.

The weekly satirical magazine Ulk (" Prank ") had published the short text Märchen (" Fairy Tale ") in 1907 in which the 17-year-old Tucholsky made fun of Kaiser Wilhelm II's taste in art.

With Rheinsberg – ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte (" Rheinsberg – a Picture Book for Lovers ") in 1912, Tucholsky published a tale in which he adopted a fresh and playful tone ( which was unusual for that time ) and which made him known to a wider audience for the first time.

In December 1918, Tucholsky took on the role of editor-in-chief of Ulk which he held until April 1920.

There was then hardly any section to which Tucholsky had not contributed: from political lead articles and court reports via commentaries and satires to poetry and book reviews.

Tucholsky himself later described the work he had done on Pieron as a mistake, which he had got into because of financial difficulties.

At the time, however, Tucholsky had also not ceased writing in left-wing publications to defend the democratic Weimar Republic ( which had emerged from the November Revolution ) against its avowed enemies in the military, in justice, in the administration, in the old pro-monarchist elites and in the new anti-democratic popular movements.

Tucholsky denounced equally strongly the many political murders which shook the Weimar Republic during its first years.

From 1918 until April 1920, Kurt Tucholsky contributed 50 articles fo the Berliner Tageblatt while he was also editor in chief of the satirical magazine Ulk, which appeared weekly between 1913 and 1933.

After Jacobson's death in December 1926, Kurt Tucholsky took over the leadership of the magazine, which he turned over to Carl von Ossietzky in May 1927.

Tucholsky had met Lisa Matthias the year before and now went on holiday with her to Sweden in 1929.

* Kurt Tucholsky, journalist, born January 9, 1890 in Moabit, Lübecker Straße 13, died December 21, 1935 in Gothenburg, Sweden

Having published many short stories, novels and essays, his prose has earned him, among other accolades, the Premio Cavour in Italy, the Kurt Tucholsky Prize in Sweden, the Lettre Ulysses Award in Berlin, and in 1998, the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

The beginning of Tucholsky's journalistic career was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I – for over two years, no articles by Tucholsky were published.

Eleven years before Germany's first attempt at democracy really took its last breath, when the Nazis came to power in 1933, in this poem Tucholsky already pointed a finger at those responsible – the poem describes the " mob " living off the republic, sabotaging it and scrawling swastikas on its doors.

Upon Siegfried Jacobsohn's death in December 1926, Tucholsky immediately agreed to take over his job at the head of the Weltbühne.

It has been suggested that Tucholsky is the original author of a quote often attributed to Joseph Stalin: " One man's death: that is a catastrophe.

In addition to Jacobsohn, Tucholsky, and Ossietzky, the contributors included prominent writers and journalists like Erich Kästner, Alfred Polgar, Arnold Zweig, Manfred George, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Else Lasker-Schüler.

In order to support the sales of the book, Tucholsky and Szafranski, who had illustrated the tale, opened a " Book Bar " on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin: anyone who bought a copy of his book also received a free glass of schnapps.

Tucholsky also did not hold back in his criticism of democratic politicians, who he believed were too lenient with their opponents.

During his time abroad, once more Tucholsky was taken to court by political opponents who felt insulted or under attack by his writing.

However, in 1905, Alex Tucholsky died as a result of syphilis.

Bei Dao has won numerous awards, including Tucholsky Prize from Swedish PEN, International Poetry Argana Award from the House of Poetry in Morocco and the PEN / Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.

* 1935 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist ( b. 1890 )

* December 21 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist ( b. 1890 )

In 1927, he succeeded Kurt Tucholsky as editor-in-chief of the periodical Die Weltbühne.

In 2008, Wildcat softball players Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace helped carry injured opponent Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University around the bases after she hit her first-ever career home run and injured herself running around the bases.

Kurt Tucholsky ( January 9, 1890 – December 21, 1935 ) was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer.

Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of the Weimar Republic.

The Jewish bank cashier Alex Tucholsky had married his cousin Doris Tucholski in 1887 and had three children with her: Kurt, their oldest son, Fritz and Ellen.

Kurt Tucholsky started school at the French Grammar School ( das Französische Gymnasium ) in 1899.

Yet, despite his later doctorate, Tucholsky never went on to a legal career: his inclination towards literature and journalism was stronger.

While he was still at school, Tucholsky had already written his first articles as a journalist.

In comparison, the involvement that Tucholsky began at the start of 1913 was to be much more long-lasting.

Tucholsky saw the posts as writer and field-newspaper editor as good opportunities to avoid serving in the trenches.

"( Kurt Tucholsky, Unser ungelebtes Leben.

) In Drobeta-Turnu Severin in Romania, Tucholsky had himself baptized as a Protestant in the summer of 1918.

Although Tucholsky still took part in a contest for the 9th war bond ( Kriegsanleihe ) in August 1918, he returned from the war in the autumn of 1918 as a convinced anti-militarist and pacifist.