Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1990 - 10 Pfennig

Important personalities The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes two multicolored special postage stamps with illustrations of important personalities. Special cancellation from March 20 to May 19, 1990 Important personalities Kurt Tucholsky was one of "the most sensitive poets and publicists of German language in this most obsessive century" (R. Links). As the eldest son of a banker, he was born on January 9, 1890 in Berlin-Moabit. Already with its first publication "fairy tales" (1907) in the ULK became clear: Here one announces itself to words, which will rub against the social conditions. During his law studies in 1913, he began his collaboration in the SCHAUBÜHNE, the later WORLD STAGE - which became the main forum of his journalistic work. Kurt Tucholsky belonged to the generation of artists characterized by the direct experience of the first imperialist world war in 1915. He was drafted into the army as a reinforcing soldier - who, despite all his differentiation in origin and life, art and world view, found their credo in the anti-war struggle. From an initial aesthetic-critical attitude, his political-critical position was formed with the revolutionary downfall of the Wilhelmine system. The immediate experiences of reality led Tucholsky into the camp of consistent opponents of war and the critique of late-bourgeois society. Using the fullness of literary genres, he took up the uncompromising struggle against German militarism and fascism. "Rheinsberg: A Picture Book for Lovers" (1912) and "Gripsholm Castle" (1931) are still in the favor of the readers. A. Zweig rightly described him as a "Chansonnier der Republik". His book "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" (1929) with photo montages by J. Heartfield shows that Kurt Tucholsky belonged to those bourgeois-democratic, militant-anti-fascist writers who felt that the struggle of the working class for social progress was a "common cause" , His oeuvre can be found in his anthologies "With 5 PS" (1928), "The smile of Mona Lisa" (1929) and "Learn to laugh without crying" (1931). Already in 1924 he moved to France and lived in Sweden from 1929. On May 10, 1933 also Tucholsky writings burned on the Berlin Opera Square. But already in 1932, the writer, who put an end to his life in 1935, fell silent.