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201 | Success: A Story Book for Lovers

  • The first page

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

  • "They rested in the grass"

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

  • Carriage Ride

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

  • special edition

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  • slipcase of the special edition

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  • The number "1" of the special edition

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  • Audio guide for reading

    Audio guide for reading

    How to explain the instand success of this debut feature?.

    The plot is rather simple: two young lovers spent a late summer weekend and enjoy their infatuation. They go for a walk, to the cinema and on a boat-ride – things that other young couples do as well. The peculiarity is based on the natural dismissal of moral standard of parents and middle-class. It is mentioned nowhere in the narrative if the two are maybe engaged. They practice “Free Love” – and that without any bad consciousness. 

    The novel was based on real/actual events. In August 1911 Kurt Tucholsky and his girlfriend(?) Else Weil spent a few days in Rheinsberg. Else inspired “Claire” in the narrative.

    After the surprisingly huge success of his little book, Tucholsky fabricated 30 copies of a de luxe edition for his friends – bound in genuine hog skin and with hand-coloured pictures. On the Tucholsky printed:

    “For the girls and other things loved.”

    The Number one of this limited edition is dedicated to Tucholsky’s “C.P.” – “Claire Pimbush” and since June 2009 in the hands of our museum.

    Voiced by Marianna Evenstein and Derrick Williams