Kurt Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of the Weimar Republic.. He was a left-wing democrat, satirist, songwriter, ladies' man, poet, and pacifist in the tradition of Heinrich Heine. He fled the Nazis and committed suicide in exile in Sweden.

Berlin! Berlin! is a representative selection from the man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy, who was as much the voice of 1920s Berlin as Georg Grosz was its face. Kurt Tucholsky was a brilliant reporter of the Weimar Republic, and also an early warner against the Nazis. They hated and loathed him, and drove him out of his country. The famed journalist became an enemy of the state, his books were burned and banned in 1933. But he is not forgotten. With this extraordinary and also funny book, Tucholsky?s work about his hometown Berlin is published for the first time in America .

?Kurt Tucholsky was one of the most brilliant writers of republican Germany?
?The New York Times Obituary, January 1936