Film screening with production team present
On April 6, 1924, Kurt Tucholsky, the outstanding opposition figure of the Weimar Republic, travels to France, his arch-enemy at the time. He has an idea in his luggage: he wants to use his writing to bring the French closer to the Germans and refute common prejudices. Will he succeed?
The film sheds light on this never before documented period (1924-1929) of the famous writer in France. His little-known love affair with Mary Gerold, the woman of his life, with whom he was in a relationship in Paris and who would later become immensely important for his subsequent fame, also plays an important role in this phase. In Paris, his view of the rise of fascism in Germany also sharpens - a development that certainly has parallels to the present day.
The film offers a completely new perspective on Tucholsky's work and life - 90 years after his death on December 21, 1935, a cinematic search for traces that interweaves the past and present in Paris and Berlin, is more topical than ever in times of anti-democratic movements throughout Europe and is thought-provoking.
The topicality of his texts is also reflected in the musical interpretations of the German-French punk duo "Les Millionnaires" and the actors Robert Stadlober and Jasmin Tabatabei, who is also the narrator of the film.
A cooperation between Musikkultur Rheinsberg and the Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum.
