Tucholsky: Ein deutsches Leben

摘要

Tucholsky was Germany's leading political journalist throughout the Weimar Republic, a significant figure on the independent Left and a gifted humorist and satirist. He also wrote best-selling short stories, cabaret songs and sketches, lyric poetry, essays and reviews and a film script, and even co-authored a play, Christoph Columbus oderdie Entdeckung Amerikas, with Walter Hasenclever. It is easier to list the few literary genres in which he was not active; he did plan a novel, but it remained unwritten. This breadth of talent makes him hard to pin down, and however impressive his range and depth of skills, university professors of German have tended to ignore his work. Nowadays, however, this cold-shouldering is less and less acceptable, especially since the copiously annotated Gesamtausgabe, the Complete Works of his texts and letters, has been available since 2011 (Tucholsky, 1996-2011). Two excellent studies were published in the 1990s by the late Michael Hepp (1993,1998). However, there has been little to report since, though the volumes of conference proceedings published by the Kurt Tucholsky Society have done their bit to push the frontiers of knowledge further west.' Now Rolf Hosfeld, an experienced biographer and editor, has written a new study. Value for 22 euros?