Die Weltbühne
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Die Weltbühne was a German weekly magazine for politics, art and the economy. It was founded in Berlin in 1905 as Die Schaubühne by Siegfried Jacobsohn and was originally a theater magazine only. In 1
Cover page of the Weltbühne from February 2, 1930
Siegfried Jacobsohn
Die Schaubühne (1906)
Kurt Tucholsky in Paris, 1928
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.
Die Weltbühne
…Germany’s political left. It was renamed to Die Weltbühne on 4 April 1918. After Jacobsohn's death in December 1926, leadership of the magazine passed to Kurt Tucholsky, who turned it over to Carl von Ossietzky in May of 1927. The Nazi Party banned the publication shortly after it came to power, and the magazine's last…
Tenement house in Szczecin, where Kurt Tucholsky lived in his early childhood
Kurt Tucholsky (right), 14 years old with his siblings Ellen and Fritz (1904)
Tucholsky (far left, as "Ignaz Wrobel") in Der Roter Helfer, April 1927