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Hedwig Mueller (called "Nuuna" by Tucholsky)
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Balthus: Portrait Hedwig Mueller
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Audio guide for reading In August 1932 the Swiss writer Aline Valangin offered her summer house to the emigrant Kurt Tucholsky. There he met the doctor Hedwig Müller from Zurich whom he called “Nuuna”.
During this time he made the decision to remove himself from the public. In September 1932 he stopped writing. After 20 years, in which he tried to enlighten people with his literature, he thought he had failed to do so. In his letters to Nuuna we repeatedly read desperate comments:
“[…] I’m not fuming here, I’m not bothering a single person with my thoughts, and I know that the world will keep on turning. Just without me. I will never be able to join in again. […] If I were in full health again, I would write, maybe … but never again than, and never again this way.”
On May 10, 1933 in many German cities, Nazi Youth groups burned many so-called “degenerate” books, including Kurt Tucholsky’s works. In August his name was on the first denaturalization list of the German Reich.
When his residence permit for Zurich expired in September 1933 he returned to Sweden. The letters he sent back to Zurich to Nuuna are full with his black despair of Germany.
