17 Facts About Kurt Tucholsky

Kurt Tucholsky wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.

Kurt Tucholsky's fears were confirmed when the Nazis came to power in January 1933.

Kurt Tucholsky published over 2,000 essays, manifestos, poems, critiques, aphorisms, and stories.

Alex Tucholsky had married his cousin Doris Tucholski in 1887 and had three children with her: Kurt, their eldest son, Fritz and Ellen.

Alex Kurt Tucholsky left a considerable fortune to his wife and children, which enabled his eldest son to go to university without any financial worries.

In 1899, upon his family's return to Berlin, Kurt Tucholsky attended the French Grammar School.

Yet, despite his later doctorate, Kurt Tucholsky never followed a legal career: his inclination towards literature and journalism was stronger.

In 1907 the weekly satirical magazine Ulk published the short text Marchen, in which the 17-year-old Kurt Tucholsky made fun of Kaiser Wilhelm II's cultural tastes.

Kurt Tucholsky involved himself in the SPD's election campaign in 1911.

In January 1913 Kurt Tucholsky began an enduring and productive new phase of his journalistic career when he published his first article in the weekly theatre magazine Die Schaubuhne.

Kurt Tucholsky saw the posts as writer and field-newspaper editor as good opportunities to avoid serving in the trenches.

Kurt Tucholsky had already left the Jewish community on 1 July 1914.

In December 1918, Kurt Tucholsky took on the role of editor-in-chief of Ulk which he held until April 1920.

In 1918, Kurt Tucholsky became the editor of the satirical magazine Ulk and remained a contributing writer to Die Schaubuhne, which had been renamed Die Weltbuhne in 1913.

Kurt Tucholsky spent the years from 1925 to 1928 in Paris but returned to Berlin to briefly become editor of Die Weltbuhne.

Kurt Tucholsky's books were among the first to be burned by the Nazi party in 1933.

Kurt Tucholsky was buried in the cemetery of Mariefred at Lake Malaren.