Advent, Advent, Day 3! The death of Siegfried Jacobsohn

 Advent, Advent! On this day in 1926, Siegfried Jacobsohn died. Jacobsohn was a towering figure in the Weimar Republic. He was the founder and editor of Die Weltbühne, a small, but very influential weekly magazine many famous writers worked for, among them Lion Feuchtwanger, Kurt Hiller, Erich Mühsam, Else Lasker-Schüler, Erich Kästner, Alfred Polgar, Carl Zuckmayer, Arnold Zweig, and Kurt Tucholsky.

 Harold Poor wrote in his Ph.D. about the Weimar Republic: "Jacobsohn had the most coveted editor’s gift in abundance, the ability to recognize true writing talent." When Jacobsohn died at the early age of 46 years, a very unhappy Tucholsky returned from Paris — where he had been the correspondent for Die Weltbühne — to Berlin to take over. 

 Read more about this in Harold Poor's landmark biography of Kurt Tucholsky

 

 

And here is a picture of Harold Poor himself