Kurt Tucholsky Museum Tour

1930 Tucholsky wrote in his text „Twenty-five Years“ about „Die Weltbühne“

“’My heart and soul’ said Siegfried Jacobsohn, when he regarded the red row of  biannual volumes of the “Weltbühne”, which always sat in front of him. His work was in them, his love and his whole life. For 21 years he dedicated every waking hour to the magazine, and he dreamed, if not of Mozart, than certainly of new employees that needed to be enlisted. Every week he prepared a little birthday for himself. “I will put goodies for you into the next edition…” and savouring in advance he seasoned to taste the works. These works almost always only existed thanks to his initiative, his energy and his loving persuasion.”

Approximately 2500 authors wrote for the “Weltbühne” until 1933 – 2500 distinct signatures. But all were joined through a common goal, as Tucholsky put it: To turn ‘Teutschland’ into ‘Deutschland’”.

“We sometimes made tragic jokes –after the Kapp-Putsch, after Rathenau was murdered – and made predictions: it was horrifying. These career politicians, these professional blind men, what they believed to have shrugged off, almost always became bloody reality; sadly we were right after all. They new so many more details than we did, but they didn’t feel anything.

On the pages of  “Die Weltbühne” you get the true history of the post-war period.