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Kurt Tucholsky

1890 - 1935

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Kurt Tucholsky (German: [kʊʁt tu.ˈxɔls.ki] ; 9 January 1890 – 21 December 1935) was a German journalist, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser (after the historical figure), Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. A politically engaged journalist and temporary co-editor of the weekly magazine Die Weltbühne, he was simultaneously a satirist, an author of satirical political revues, a songwriter, and a poet. He saw himself as a left-wing democrat and pacifist and warned against anti-democratic tendencies — above all in politics and the military — and the threat of Nazism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Tucholsky is the 1,290th most popular writer (up from 1,341st in 2019), the 1,334th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,372nd in 2019) and the 82nd most popular German Writer.

Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish writer who is most famous for his satirical wit and his criticism of the Weimar Republic.

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Among writers, Kurt Tucholsky ranks 1,290 out of 7,302. Before him are Georges Rodenbach, Giovanni Papini, Ono no Komachi, Alcman, Ibn al-Nadim, and Pierre Larousse. After him are Blaise de Vigenère, Michael Jackson, Dositej Obradović, Judah Leon Abravanel, Jean Giono, and Hubert Selby Jr..

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Among people born in 1890, Kurt Tucholsky ranks 51. Before him are Jacques Ibert, Alfredo Ottaviani, Moša Pijade, Habibullāh Kalakāni, Harold Bride, and Naum Gabo. After him are Georgy Pyatakov, Viktor Lutze, Li Zongren, Béla Miklós, Frank Martin, and Erich Kleiber. Among people deceased in 1935, Kurt Tucholsky ranks 42. Before him are Anna Ancher, Ali of Hejaz, Paul Bourget, Rashid Rida, Johan Halvorsen, and Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom. After him are Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, Gareth Jones, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Ruan Lingyu, and Louis de Beaufront.

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Among people born in Germany, Kurt Tucholsky ranks 1,334 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), Nena (1960), Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), and Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787). After him are Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Sebastian Münster (1488), Arnold Janssen (1837), Walter Röhrl (1947), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), and Udo Dirkschneider (1952).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Kurt Tucholsky ranks 82. Before him are Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Gottfried Benn (1886), Anton Praetorius (1560), and Theodor Storm (1817). After him are Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), Wilhelm Müller (1794), Widukind of Corvey (925), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Else Lasker-Schüler (1869), and Arnold van Gennep (1873).

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