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"Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures, loved by his many readers and hated by the Nazis. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920s 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. Long out of print, Zohn's book is now being republished in a new edition"--
Vividly describing the conflict between the two superpowers--the U.S. and the Soviet Union--as it played out in Berlin, this book highlights the dramatic events that occurred in the divided city that was the frontier town, the spy post, and the battlefield. It was a time in Berlin that touched the whole world: the blockade, the airlift, the uprising of June 1953, the construction of the Wall, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Stories of escape and espionage are included in this concise but detailed book which describes key points from 1945 up through the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Berlin! Berlin!, by Kurt Tucholsky, is a satirical selection from the man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy, who was as much the voice of 1920s Berlin as Georg Grosz was its face. This book collects Tucholsky's news stories and poems about his hometown Berlin, never published in America before.
No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, quite like he did. This is the first bilingual anthology in German and in English of his works on World War I.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-300) and index.
"Explores the epic Bruce Springsteen concert in East Berlin on July 19, 1988. It takes you to an unforgettable journey with Springsteen through the divided city, to the open air concert grounds in Weissensee, where The Boss delivered a speech against the Wall to 300,000 delirious young East Germans"--Page [4] of cover.
Dena, a New Hampshire retiree, feels at home in Germany the moment the vineyards across the A Place They Called Home is the first book to give a voice to the descendants of Jewish Holocaust survivors who have chosen to restore their German citizenship. They all reclaimed something that was taken from their families.
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. This edition features an afterword by Dr. Peter Boethig, the director of the Kurt Tucholsky Museum in Rheinsberg."
When Dott, a village girl from eastern Germany, becomes invisible after sneaking out to see the midsummer bonfires, she travels through Germany and back into its history as she seeks a way to return home with help for her ailing sister.
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