Kurt Tucholsky in Translation

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Berlin! Berlin!

Dispatches From the Weimar Republic
Author: Kurt Tucholsky
Translator: Cindy Opitz
​Genre: Literary Nonfiction, Essays
​Softcover, 208 pages, 41 pictures
Dimensions: 5.5’’ x 8.5’’
Suggested Retail: $13.95 / 14,00 €
ISBN USA:  978-1-935902-23-2
ISBN Germany: 978-3-96026-027-1
Release: Spring 2013

Berlin! Berlin! is a complete collection of Tucholsky’s news stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his hometown Berlin,  from the "man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy,” as Peter  Wortsman writes. It depicts Weimar Berlin, its cabarets, its policies, its follies, and its celebrities, such as Pola Negri, Bert  Brecht, Max Reinhardt, or Heinrich Zille. Herr Wendriner, the chatty Berlin businessman makes an appearance, as well as Lottchen, the flapper, modeled after one of Tucholsky’s real-life girlfriends.  With a  foreword by New York author Anne Nelson and an introduction by Ian King, the chair of the Kurt-Tucholsky-Society.

Germany? Germany is the iconic translation of the late Harry Zohn, a refuge figure from Vienna turned professor in Boston who presented Tucholsky to an American audience for the first time. Zohn shows us Tucholsky's stand against militarism and nationalism, his observations of the ladies, and his love for the Weimar cabaret. The book "reveals the brilliance and desperation of a quicksilver writer in dark times nearly a century ago and an ocean away"  (The Los Angeles Review of Books). With a preface by New York Times writer Ralph Blumenthal and an afterword by Steven Zohn, the son of Harry Zohn.

Germany? Germany!
Satirical Writings
Author: Kurt Tucholsky
​Translater: Harry Zohn
​Softcover: 208 pages, 8 pictures
Dimensions: 5.5’’ x 8.5’’
Suggested Retail: $14.95, 15,- €
ISBN  USA: 978-1-935902-38-6
ISBN Germany: 978-3-96026-025-7
Suggested Retail: $14.95, 15,- €
Release Spring, 2017

Hereafter
Author: Kurt Tucholsky
Translator: Cindy Opitz
​Preface: William Grimes

Genre: Short Stories
Hardcover, 96 pages, 25 Photos
Dimensions: 5'' x 8''
Suggested Retail $14.95 / 12,00 €
ISBN USA: 978-1-935902-89-8

ISBN Germany /Softcover)

978-3-96026-028-8
Release: December 2018

Hereafter: What happens after you die? Where will you be? What will you do? Do you have a harp? Will you meet Him? Were you happy with your life? And will you get a second chance to return to earth? In this charming book, Kurt  Tucholsky discovers the afterlife and what angels are talking about when they are sitting on the clouds and dangle their legs. With sepia-colored pictures of Berlin's little cemetery angels and a preface by Williams  Grimes, an editor and reporter at the New York Times for more than 25  years who covered the arts, served as a restaurant critic, and, most recently, wrote obituaries.

Rheinsberg: One summer before World War I, a young couple escapes on a romantic weekend getaway to the small German town of Rheinsberg, north of Berlin,  in the midst of a rural landscape filled with country houses and castles, cobblestone streets, lush forests, and dreamy lakes. The story of Wolfie and Claire, told with a fresh, new style of ironic humor, became Kurt Tucholsky’s first literary success and the blueprint for love for an entire generation. Also this book: Love poems for Claire; poems Tucholsky wrote for Else Weil, his first wife and the role model for the book's main, character. With the original preface by Tucholsky and an afterword by Peter Boethig, the director of the Tucholsky Museum in Rheinsberg.

Rheinsberg
Author: Kurt Tucholsky
Translator: Cindy Opitz

Afterword: Peter Boethig
​Genre: Novella
Hardcover; 96 pages, 26 Pics
Dimensions: 5'' x 8''
Suggested Retail: $14.95 / 12,00 €
ISBN: 978-1-935902-25-6​
​Release: Summer 2014

Kurt Tucholsky
Author: Harold L. Poor
Genre: Biography
Softcover, 256 pp, 21 pictures
ISBN USA: 978-1-935902-47-8
ISBN Germany: 978-3-96026-015-8 
Dimensions: 6'' x 9''
Suggested Retail $19.95 / 20,- €
Release September 2019

Harold  L. Poor’s biography Kurt Tucholsky is the most important and thorough work on the famed German Jewish author in English: a still unmatched labor of love by the Rutgers history professor. For this book—originally published as Kurt Tucholsky and the Ordeal of Germany 1914-1935,  Poor spent years of research. He also visited Tucholsky’s widow Mary  Gerold in her home in Rottach-Egern in Germany and unearthed letters,  pictures, and other previously unknown materials. This book about  Tucholsky is an entertaining and well-written gem that has finally been rediscovered. With an introduction by Belinda Davis, Professor of  History at Rutgers University, and a preface by Chris Poor, the son of  Harold Poor.

In Prayer After The Slaughter Tucholsky describes the horrors of the “Great War”, as World War I was known. The famed Weimar author writes about surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers, the desperation of the loved ones back home, but also the war profiteers. His writings are similar to those of Heinrich Heine, his role model. He makes the war that still looms even into our own 21st century come alive. This is the first bilingual anthology in German and in English of his works on World War I. Translated by Peter Appelbaum and James Scott. With a preface by Noah Eisenberg, Professor of Culture and Media.

Prayer After the Slaughter
Author: Kurt Tucholsky
​Translator:

Peter Appelbaum / James Scott
​Preface: Noah Eisenberg
Softcover, 116 pages, 12 pics
Suggested Retail: $12.95 / 10,50 €
ISBN USA:  978-1-935902-28-7
ISBN Germany: 978-3-96026-020-2
Release: Winter 2015

Kurt Tucholsky, born 1890 in Berlin, was a brilliant satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist, and Democrat; one of the most famous journalists in Weimar Germany, and an early warner against the Nazis. The New York Times hailed him as "one of the most brilliant writers of republican Germany". His contemporary Erich Kaestner called him a "small, fat Berliner," who "wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter". His books were burned and banned by the Nazis; he committing suicide in Sweden in 1935. 

Tucholsky was a poet as well as a critic and was so versatile that he used five names. As Peter Panter, he was an  essayist who wrote topical sketches in the Vossische Zeitung, as Theobald Tiger he wrote satirical poems that were frequently interpreted by popular actors in vaudeville and cabarets, as Kaspar Hauser he wrote human stories, and as Ignatz Wrobel, he contributed journalistic pieces to the Weltbühne (World Stage), an influential left-wing weekly. He acted as the editor of the Weltbühne from 1926 to 1927. Tucholsky, who occupied the center stage in the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920s Berlin, still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. He pierced the hypocrisy and corruption around him with acute honesty. Imagine — writes New York author Anne Melson — a writer with the acid voice of Christopher Hitchens and the satirical whimsy of Jon Stewart, combined with the iconoclasm of Bill Maher. His irony made the line between his “serious writing” and his “entertainments” almost invisible.

Harold L. Poor was born in 1935 in Missouri, grew up in Alabama, and attended Harvard College. He held a Ph.D. in German and European history at Columbia University. In 1966, he became a professor at the Rutgers College History Department. Soon, he was known as one of the most gifted and charismatic teachers. He also was the co-author of the musical revue Tickles by Tucholsky,  which was produced at Theater Four off-Broadway in 1976. Poor died on January 24, 1992, in New York City.