Kurt Tucholsky Museum Tour

When Arnold Zweig answered Tucholsky’a farewell letter on January 16, 1936, Tucholsky was already dead. Nonetheless he wrote an answer to Tucholsky and regarded it as a “Funeral address” for his comrade.

Here are a few excerpts:

“[…]The lesson we receive is short and meagre: we were wrong about the degree of civilization in Germany and the passion of the Europeans for their future.

[…] The planet earth in which you were buried, hosts an abundance of animal components, among them the human intelligence. These are needed, so that people can beat each other to death.

[…] Whoever could make us so glad and so cross, and that about the absurd and the outrageous. Whoever could jest so magnificently and be as wise as you were – and everything in German – he can rest with good grace like Heinrich Heine. He is alive like him.

“[…]The lesson we receive is short and meagre: we were wrong about the degree of civilization in Germany and the passion of the Europeans for their future.

[…] The planet earth in which you were buried, hosts an abundance of animal components, among them the human intelligence. These are needed, so that people can beat each other to death.

[…] Whoever could make us so glad and so cross, and that about the absurd and the outrageous. Whoever could jest so magnificently and be as wise as you were – and everything in German – he can rest with good grace like Heinrich Heine. He is alive like him.