Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist

Journalist

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, satirist

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 and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonym

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s Kaspar Hauser

Kaspar Hauser

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, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin

Berlin

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-Moabit, he moved to Paris

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 in 1924 and then to Sweden

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 in 1930.

Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

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. As a politically engaged journalist and temporary co-editor of the weekly magazine Die Weltbühne

Die Weltbühne

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 he proved himself to be a social critic in the tradition of Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann...

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