Rheinsberg. Ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte: [Weltliteratur in Erzählungen] – Mit Nachbemerkung und Anmerkungen – Eine sommerlich-idyllische Liebesgeschichte ... Universal-Bibliothek)
Ein junges Paar entflieht der hektischen Großstadt der frühen 1910er Jahre ins ländliche Idyll Rheinsberg. Drei sommerliche Tage verbringen Claire und Wolfgang damit, im Schlosspark zu flanieren, auf dem See zu rudern und im Gras zu liegen. Tucholskys erzählerisches Debüt, welches ihn über Nacht berühmt machte, traf den Nerv seiner Zeit mit dieser Ode an »das Hier und Jetzt der Jugend und der Liebe«.
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.