Kurt Tucholsky
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Kurt Tucholsky was a German journalist, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.
Tucholsky in Paris, 1928
Kurt Tucholsky (right), 14 years old with his siblings Ellen and Fritz (1904)
Tenement house in Szczecin, where Kurt Tucholsky lived in his early childhood
Memorial plaque at his birthplace in Berlin-Moabit (Lübecker Straße 13)
Kaspar Hauser
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Kaspar Hauser was a German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell. Hauser's claims, and his subsequent death from a stab wound, sparked much debate and controversy. Theories propounded at the time identified him as a member of the grand ducal House of Baden, hidden away because of royal intrigue. These opinions may or may not have been documented by later investigations. Other theories proposed that Hauser had been a fraud.
Hauser, 1830. Note the scar on the forehead, from a wound inflicted the year before.
Statue of Hauser, old city centre, Ansbach, Germany
Pencil drawing by Kaspar Hauser, 1829
A photograph of the note, in mirror writing. Contrast enhanced. The original has been missing since 1945.