Gripsholm Castle - A Summer Story

By Kurt Tucholsky with pictures by Hans Traxler

174 pages with 60 color illustrations. Paperback.

A summer love in Sweden. Told with inimitably grace and amusement, floating like a butterfly and sun-drenched like summer itself. Since its publication in 1931, lovers have repeatedly given each other this cheerfully melancholic book, full of amorous follies and enchantments. Hans Traxler has masterfully illustrated Tucholsky's story with 60 pictures. The result is a magnificent volume. Images and text are beautifully intertwined.
"Hans Traxler's images not only complement Tucholsky's text in the finest way - they also tell it further in a wonderful way." Norddeutscher Rundfunk

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Kurt Tucholsky , born in Berlin in 1890, studied law in Berlin, Jena, and Geneva. As a politically active journalist and occasional co-editor of the weekly magazine Die Weltbühne, he is considered one of the most important publicists of the Weimar Republic. He was also a satirist, cabaret author, novelist, and poet. In 1929, he went to Sweden, where he committed suicide in 1935.

Hans Traxler was born in 1929 in Herrlich, a village in northern Bohemia, and works as a painter, illustrator, and author. He was a longtime contributor to the satirical magazines Pardon and Titanic, which he co-founded. Traxler's works have also appeared in ZEIT magazine, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He has received numerous awards for his lifetime achievement, including the Wilhelm Busch Prize in 2015 and the Friedrich Stoltze Prize in 2018.

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