Lebenslust mit Kurt Tucholsky

"Happiness is the state that one does not feel, says the wise man.But when Kurt Tucholsky, in the imagination of his readers, makes a waltz resound with power of speech and lets a young couple in love whirl exuberantly down a slope to it, when he describes with a wink how someone explores "France from the inside" on a journey and crawls out of a fairy cave exhausted, completely battered and hatless, or when he writes in his absurd "Recipes against the flu", he is not only a writer, but also a writer in love.slyly describes how a traveller explores "France from the inside" and crawls out of a fairy grotto, exhausted, completely battered and hatless, or when he recommends in his absurd "prescriptions against influenza" that homeopaths should "best take a five-penny stamp three times a day".When he recommends that homeopaths "best lick a five-penny brand three times a day" in his absurd "Prescriptions against the flu", he succeeds in his own inimitable way in making moments of happiness palpable, evoking a zest for life and generating irrepressible cheerfulness.