{"product_id":"rheinsberg-a-storybook-for-lovers-by-kurt-tucholsky","title":"Rheinsberg: A Storybook for Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy Kurt Tucholsky\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Cindy Opitz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eRheinsberg\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a delightful and a deeply disquieting story.\"—Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of \u003cem\u003eHester Among the Ruins and The Scenic Route\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A wonderful and charming love story, finally rediscovered and brought to America\"—Claudia Dreifus, \u003cem\u003eColumbia University\u003c\/em\u003e, New York\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne summer before World War I, a young couple escapes on a romantic weekend getaway to the small German town of Rheinsberg, north of Berlin, in the midst of a rural landscape filled with country houses and castles, cobble-stone streets, lush forests, and dreamy lakes. The story of Wolfie and Claire, told with a fresh, new style of ironic humor, became Kurt Tucholsky’s first literary success and the blueprint for love for an entire generation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKurt Tucholsky was a brilliant satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist, and Democrat; a fighter, lady’s man, one of the most famous journalists in Weimar Germany, and an early warner against the Nazis. Erich Kaestner called him a \"small, fat Berliner,\" who \"wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter\". When Tucholsky began to write, he had five voices—in the end, he had none. His books were burned and banned by the Nazis, who drove him out of his country. But he is not forgotten. \u003cem\u003eRheinsberg\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a delightful and a deeply disquieting story. The lovers, Claire and Wolfie—a silly but harmless pair—escape the confines of Berlin for a romantic romp in the countryside. As their brief interlude nears its end, already consigned to memory, there comes with it an end to innocence, to frivolity. It was 1912; Kurt Tucholsky’s prescience was uncanny: the holiday is over and soon we will go to war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e98 pages\u003cbr\u003eBerlinica Press, 2014\u003cbr\u003eOriginally Published in 1912\u003cbr\u003e5 x 0.5 x 8 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781935902256\u003cbr\u003eRomantic Fiction, Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":787303325,"sku":"9781935902256","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Rheinsberg-A-Storybook-for-Lovers_Among-City-Wizards-Love-Poems-for-Claire_Kurt-Tucholsky.jpg?v=1593195568","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/rheinsberg-a-storybook-for-lovers-by-kurt-tucholsky","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}