Kurt Tucholsky (* January 9, 1890 in Berlin; † December 21, 1935 in Gothenburg) was a German journalist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.
Tucholsky was one of the most important publicists of the Weimar Republic. As a politically committed journalist and for a time co-editor of the weekly ''Die Weltbühne'', he proved to be a social critic in the tradition of Heinrich Heine. At the same time, he was a satirist, cabaret writer, songwriter, novelist, lyricist and critic (literature, film, music). He saw himself as a left-wing democrat, socialist, pacifist and anti-militarist and warned against the strengthening of the political righ. Especially in politics, the military and the judiciary- and against the threat of National Socialism.
