Death of Kurt Tucholsky

On 21 December 1935 the writer Kurt Tucholsky commits suicide in exile in Sweden. Tucholsky had already gone abroad in 1929 after the publication of his satire „Deutschland, Deutschland über alles“. For many years as publisher of the left-wing intellectual magazine „Weltbühne“, which the pacifist Carl von Ossietzky also wrote for, he had already made himself an enemy of the National Socialists. In 1933 the Nazis had stripped the exile of his citizenship. His books then ended up on the „Black Lists“ and were burned.

Memorial stone for Kurt Tucholsky beneath the oak where his ashes are buried. It is situated at the swedish Mariefred near Schloss Gripsholm, scene of his most famous novel. The inscription on the stone is: „All transience is just a parable„, a quotation from Goethe's „Faust II“ Source: This image is taken from the article Kurt Tucholsky (English) in the free encyclopedia  Wikipedia and is under GNU-licence for free documentation.