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  • Earliest portrait of Tucholsky, 1890

    (c) Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum CC-BY-NC-SA

     

  • Tucholsky, 1904

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  • Tucholsky, 1920

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  • Tucholsky, 1925

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  • Tucholsky, 1931

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  • Tucholsky, around 1935

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  • Audio guide for reading

    Audio guide for reading

    “There is a law of art, which is everlasting: We do not wish to be bored.”

    … wrote Kurt Tucholsky in 1926. We also don’t wish to bore you in our museum. We rather invite you to discover an entertaining author, a political poet, and a literary man (?): deeply caught up in the struggles of his time but exceeding his time with his eloquence.

    Some of you will admire Tucholsky others will be annoyed at his sharp satire. But exactly this characterised him: Tucholsky was a many-sided writer, who interfered, brought matters to the point and polarised opinions; a man/someone who stood up for his ideals.

    “I for my share am a writer. I don’t want to a kingdom, I keep away from things that I am not up to – I’m up to my literature. And literature has had only one task in six thousand years of history of humanity: To spread intellect in the form of written or printed words.”

    Tucholsky outlined his creed with these sentences. Often he deals with his   in an ironic and witty manner:

    I don’t know what my obituary is supposed to look like. I only know how it will look. It will be composed of one syllable. Daddy and Mommy sit at the grazed dinner table and pass their wedding reading the newspaper reading. He suddenly lifts his head, appalled by a picture of Dolbin and says: ‘Look at that, Theobald Tiger has died!’ And than she will speak out my obituary. She says: ‘Alas/Oh [Betonung] -!’”

    His legacy did not turn out as curt as Tucholsky authored it in this obituary from 1227.

    We want to invite you to a walk through life and work of an author who thought European and invites us to critical contemplation

    Voiced by Marianna Evenstein and Derrick Williams