Sudelbuch

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Tucholsky's last entry in his Sudelbuch, 1935.

Sudelbuch is the title of a literary notebook that the journalist and writer Kurt Tucholsky kept from 1928 until his death in 1935. There the author collected aphorisms , short linguistic ideas and expressions, jokes and rumors as well as comments on the craft of the writer.

Tucholsky had already ordered on the first page of these notes that they should be handed over to his second wife - Mary Gerold-Tucholsky - after his death . The complete content remained unknown for a long time, apart from those aphorisms that Tucholsky himself had already published as his last contributions (the snippets ) in the magazine Weltbühne .

It was not until 1993, six years after Mary Gerold's death and almost 60 years after the author's death, that the Sudelbuch was published posthumously .

Word origin

Sudelbuch was originally, synonymous with Kladde or Strazze , a commercial term for a notebook in which the statements on day-to-day business were entered in a fleeting and disordered manner, which later had to be carefully transferred to the bookkeeping.

Tucholsky's famous role model for collecting aphoristic notes under this title are the sudel books by the mathematician, physicist and aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799).

"The merchants have their waste book (Sudelbuch, I believe in German), in which they enter everything they sell and buy from day to day, everything messed up and out of order [...]"

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : Sudel books

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Remarks

  1. ^ Under the title "Schnipsel", Mary Gerold-Tucholsky first published Tucholsky's Weltbühne aphorisms in book form at Rowohlt Verlag in 1973 (cf. data set of the German National Library ); since then regular new editions, ISBN 3-499-11669-3 .
  2. ↑ Christof Siemes : It wasn't much. Tucholsky's “Sudelbuch” - also a life balance . In: Die Zeit 41/1993, October 8, 1993, accessed December 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ Sudelbuch . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : German Dictionary . Hirzel, Leipzig 1854–1961 ( woerterbuchnetz.de , University of Trier).
  4. ↑ Christof Siemes: It wasn't much. Tucholsky's “Sudelbuch” - also a life balance . In: Die Zeit 41/1993, October 8, 1993, accessed December 11, 2014.
  5. ^ Sudelbuch E, entry 46 .