Kurt Tucholsky Museum Tour

„But when you love the cabaret. What then? It’s an unhappy love.“

With the pseudonym Theobald Tiger Tucholsky wrote some of the most important chansons of the Weimar Republic and numerous lively and popular couplets. In the twenties he wrote for Max Reinhardt’s “Schall und Rauch”-stage and for the apolitical cabaret “Die Gondel”. Like no other author he knew how to entertain brilliantly:

“Boring does not equal serious.”

The Cabaret-historian Volker Kühn wrote about him:

“He doggereled the verses as they came and rhymed ”carpet” with ”arpet”. A true Jack-of-all-trades sat there in front of the typewriter. A true stroke of luck also for the cabaret.”

In the middle of the twenties Tucholsky already lived in Paris and took leave of Theobald Tiger. Only a few stray chansons emerged from Theobald Tiger.

“I withdrew from Cabaret, as well as from theatre, for a certain reason. Above all things it was this: I publish a text. I hear it, lets say, gentle, stretched, all feathery and subtle. And than I go there: and some guy stands there and has maybe put on a knight’s armour and blares the text trough a megaphone …. I beg your pardon…..that’s why I don’t like to anymore.”