Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky (January 9, 1890 - December 21, 1935) was a German journalist, satirist and song text writer.
Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved in 1924 to Paris and in 1930 to Sweden. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, his books were burned and he lost his citizenship. He probably committed suicide in Hindås near Göteborg and died in a hospital in Göteborg while in Swedish exile.
Tucholsky, like other writers and artists of the Weimar era, had the same combination of mordant objectivity and political insight that made them mock the illusions of those who thought that everything would somehow work out for the best. His poem about the production of
