Prayer After the Slaughter
The Great War: Poems and Stories From World War I
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2015
Book
116 pages
978-3-96026-020-2 (ISBN)
Description
No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, quite like he did. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany's best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writing is similar to that of Heinrich Heine, his role model, in that it appears superficially simple but is replete with hidden meanings. His works are touching, stirring, and precisely to the point. He brings alive the war that still looms even into our own 21st century. This is the first bilingual anthology in German and in English of his works on World War I.
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Kurt Tucholsky was the most renowned reporter and satirist of the Weimar Republic, who not only sounded an early warning against the Nazis, he also vehemently opposed WWI militarism. The war, in which he was drafted, turned him into a lifelong pacifist.
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Kurt Tucholsky was the most renowned reporter and satirist of the Weimar Republic, who not only sounded an early warning against the Nazis, he also vehemently opposed WWI militarism. The war, in which he was drafted, turned him into a lifelong pacifist.
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Foreword
Noah Isenberg is Professor and Chair of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College-The New School for Liberal Arts, where he teaches film history, criticism, theory, and literature. He holds a joint appointment in the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research. The author, most recently, of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (California, 2014), which the New York Times recently called "a page turner of a biography," his other books include Detour (British Film Institute, 2008) and, as editor, Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era (Columbia, 2009), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Translation
Peter Appelbaum MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University. He has authored Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War and Loyal Sons. German Jews in the First World War, coming out September. He also has unearthed poetry written by German Jewish soldiers, and translated many of those, making them available in English for the first time.
James W. Scott, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of German at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. His scholarly presentations have ranged from Rilke's prose and Kafka's short fiction to cabaret in East Germany and communicative testing. At present he is editing Ebernand von Erfurt's Kaiser und Kaiserin and preparing a new translation of Iwein, an Arthurian epic by Hartmann von Aue.