Kurt Tucholsky

By Kurt TucholskyTranslated by and Introduction by Michael Hofmann “Some books, like most summer holidays, feel entirely undeserved and all too brief. Such is the case with the delightful Castle Gripsholm.“ —Jan Wilm, Music and Literature“[A] monument to the loss of faith in language and the depredations upon creativity brought about by large-scale political evil . . . the formal disjointedness which terror and despair evidently incited now reads as more truthful—it’s certainly far more moving—than ever a more finished fiction, a more polished satire would have been.”—The Observer“The author, a polemical journalist during the last days of the Weimar Republic, chose in this, his only novel, to write about the pleasures of wine and women and the gratifications of friendship, and to do so in prose so luminous and exuberant that the bitterness of real life seems . . . an intrusion.”—Publishers Weekly A beguiling fable about a summer holiday in the Swedish countryside that transforms into a provocative parable about oppression and the evil awaiting Europe as the Nazis came to power.Castle Gripsholm, the best and most beloved work by Kurt Tucholsky, is a short novel about an enchanted summer holiday. It begins with an assignment: Tucholsky’s publisher wants him to write something light and funny, otherwise about whatever Tucholsky wants. A deal is struck and the story is off: about Peter, a writer; his girlfriend, known as the Princess; and a summer vacation far from the hurly-burly of Berlin. Peter and the Princess have rented a small house attached to a historic castle in Sweden, and they have five weeks of long days and white nights at their disposal; five weeks for swimming and walking and sex and talking and visits with Peter’s buddy Karlchen and with Billy, the Princess’s best friend. It is perfect, until they meet a weeping girl fleeing the cruel headmistress of a home for children. The vacationers decide they must free the girl and send her back to her mother in Switzerland, which brings about an encounter with authority that casts a worrying shadow over their radiant summer idyll. Soon they must return to Germany. What kind of fairy tale are they living in? Paperback144 pagesNYRB Classics; Reissue edition, 2019Originally published in 19315 x 0.4 x 8 inchesISBN 9781681373348Fiction

Castle Gripsholm

Original Price: $15.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Kurt Tucholsky Preface by William Grimes "These lyrical, whimsical, and waspish mordant sermonettes ingeniously trace the warped grain of human nature, exposing pretense and folly at every turn."—William Grimes 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. Hardcover96 pagesBerlinica Publishing LLC, 2018Originally published between 1925 and 19285 x 0.4 x 8 inchesISBN 9781935902898Spiritualism

Hereafter: We Were Sitting On the Cloud, Dangling Our Legs

By Kurt TucholskyPreface by Ralph BlumenthalTranslated by Harry Zohn "This new 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 Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920’s Berlin still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. But he was more than just an angry truth-teller; he was also one of the funniest satirical writers of his era, depicting everyday lives during the rise of modernity. The iconic translation of Harry Zohn, a literary figure from Vienna himself, presented Tucholsky to an American audience for the first time. This edition features a preface by Ralph Blumenthal, journalism professor and former reporter for The New York Times. Paperback202 pagesBerlinica Publishing, 20175.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inchesISBN 9783960260257Satire

Germany? Germany! Satirical Writings: The Kurt Tucholsky Reader

By Kurt TucholskyTranslated by Cindy Opitz "Rheinsberg is at once a delightful and a deeply disquieting story."—Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Hester Among the Ruins and The Scenic Route "A wonderful and charming love story, finally rediscovered and brought to America"—Claudia Dreifus, Columbia University, New York 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, cobble-stone 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. Kurt Tucholsky was a brilliant satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist, and Democrat; a fighter, lady’s man, one of the most famous journalists in Weimar Germany, and an early warner against the Nazis. Erich Kaestner called him a "small, fat Berliner," who "wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter". When Tucholsky began to write, he had five voices—in the end, he had none. His books were burned and banned by the Nazis, who drove him out of his country. But he is not forgotten. Rheinsberg is at once a delightful and a deeply disquieting story. The lovers, Claire and Wolfie—a silly but harmless pair—escape the confines of Berlin for a romantic romp in the countryside. As their brief interlude nears its end, already consigned to memory, there comes with it an end to innocence, to frivolity. It was 1912; Kurt Tucholsky’s prescience was uncanny: the holiday is over and soon we will go to war. Hardcover98 pagesBerlinica Press, 2014Originally Published in 19125 x 0.5 x 8 inchesISBN 9781935902256Romantic Fiction, Poetry

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Castle Gripsholm

Hereafter: We Were Sitting On the Cloud, Dangling Our Legs

Germany? Germany! Satirical Writings: The Kurt Tucholsky Reader

Rheinsberg: A Storybook for Lovers

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Castle Gripsholm

Hereafter: We Were Sitting On the Cloud, Dangling Our Legs

Germany? Germany! Satirical Writings: The Kurt Tucholsky Reader

Rheinsberg: A Storybook for Lovers

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