Panter, Tiger & Co.

by Kurt Tucholsky

1989 ROWOHLT PUBLISHING German Edition SOFTCOVER

Genres: German Literature, Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Satire, 20th Century

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1954

About the author

Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger, and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.

Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of the Weimar Republic. As a politically engaged journalist and temporary co-editor of the weekly magazine Die Weltbühne he proved himself to be a social critic in the tradition of Heinrich Heine. 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, the military, and justice—and the threat of National Socialism. His fears were confirmed when the Nazis came to power in 1933: his books were listed on the Nazi's censorship as "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") and burned, and he lost his German citizenship.

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kurt Tucholsky was a prolific writer and editor for the Weimar-era magazine, Die Weltbühne. This collection of pieces written under his four pseudonyms--Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger, Kasper Hauser and Ignaz Wrobel--was put together by his widow in 1954, less than 20 years after his death.

The collections includes essays and poems in categories including humor, travel writing, reflections on issues as varied as education, economy, the military and death. His pieces written in Berliner slang are as good as any of the Missouri dialects of Mark Twain. Essential reading for anyone knowledgeable of Weimar and wanting to better understand the frustrations of the era.

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ganz großartige Feuilletons - die nur vermeintlich ihrer Zeit verhaftet sind (1920er Jahre). Denn, mittlerweile bin ich schon nicht mehr überrascht, sind die von Tucholsky verhandelte Themen, heutige: Rechte Burschenschaften, Kriegsangst, Pazifismus, politisch beeinflusste Justiz usw.
Und weil Tucholsky ein grandioser Stililst ist, bereitet es Vergnügen, darüber zu lesen.

[Otto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Das Buch habe ich einem öffentlichen Bücherkasten im 8. Bezirk entnommen. Es enthält Feuilletons und Gedichte von Kurt Tucholsky, der 1935 verstorben den Höhepunkt des deutschen Wahnsinns nicht mehr erleben musste.
Dem einleitenden Text entnehme ich, dass Tucholsky unter verschiedenen Pseudonymen (Ignaz Wrobel, Peter Panther, Theobald Tiger, Kaspar Hauser) in Siegfried Jacobsens Weltwoche publizierte, zu dessen plötzlichem Tod er ein Gedicht verfasste. Die Weltwoche und Siegfried Jacobsen eine unglaubliche Erscheinung des beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts insbesonders der Linken in der Weimarer Republik, die mich ja immer wieder fasziniert.
Interessantes Zeitbild und Zeichen der schriftstellerischen und v.a. satirischen Stärke des Schriftstellers.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ich habe das Buch nicht komplett beendet, finde es dennoch relativ interessant zum reinlesen, da es einige Geschichten gibt, die klever geschrieben sind.

[Maxiliu · Rating 5 out of 5]

<3

[Walter · Rating 2 out of 5]

i couldn’t finish the book. i don‘t find it funny nor interesting nor smart. sorry

[Magda Prz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Obśmiałam się do łez, zapłakałam się na amen. Wspaniałe krótkie formy Kurta Tucholskyego (a dokładnie Petera Pantera, Ignaza Wrobla i Theobalda Tigera) o społeczeństwie, życiu, Berlinie...