Prayer After the Slaughter

The Great War: Poems and Stories From World War I

Kurt Tucholsky (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2015
Berlinica (Verlag)
978-1-935902-28-7 (ISBN)

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Prayer After the Slaughter

Kurt Tucholsky

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Never before or after have the horrors of the “Great War”, as World War I was known, been captured as by Kurt Tucholsky. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany’s best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writings are similar to those of Heinrich Heine, his role model, in appearing superficially simple, but replete with hidden meanings, they are touching, stirring and precisely to the point. He makes the war that still looms even into our own 21st century come alive. This is the first bilingual anthology in German and in English of his works on World War I.

Kurt Tucholsky was a brilliant satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist, and Democrat; one of the most famous journalists in Weimar Germany, and an early warner against the Nazis. Erich Kaestner called him a "small, fat Berliner," who "wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter". His books were burned and banned by the Nazis, who drove him out of his country. But he is not forgotten.

Peter Appelbaum MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University. His has authored Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War and Loyal Sons. German Jews in the First World War, coming out September. He also has unearthed poetry written by German Jewish soldiers, and translated many of those, making them available in English for the first time.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.6.2015
Reihe/Serie	Kurt Tucholsky in Translation
Übersetzer	Peter Appelbaum, James Scott
Zusatzinfo	black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 201 mm
Gewicht	136 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
Schlagworte	Erster Weltkrieg • Kurt Tucholsky • Weimarer Repubik
ISBN-10	1-935902-28-8 / 1935902288
ISBN-13	978-1-935902-28-7 / 9781935902287
Zustand	Neuware