User:Hans Adler/Relations between Helmut Kohl and Kurt Tucholsky

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This is a parody of a certain type of Wikipedia article, created as a contribution to a Wikipedia-internal discussion. The intent is to demonstrate how a completely trivial and non-notable factoid combining two genuine article subjects can be inflated to create the illusion of notability. In this case the original factoid was: "Helmut Kohl likes to read works by Tucholsky".

Relations between Helmut Kohl and Kurt Tucholsky refers to the relations between the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the German author Kurt Tucholsky. These two notable Germans have much in common.^[1] Both were among the 100 prominent Germans selected to be featured on German national television in the series Unsere Besten. Kohl is a right-wing politician under whose name appeared a book, and Tucholsky was a left-wing political author. While Kohl is still alive, his wife Hannelore died of suicide in 2001, 66 years after Tucholsky's suicide.

Since Kohl was born in the year in which Tucholsky emigrated to Sweden, and was only five years old at the time of Tucholsky's death, the relations between the two have always had a tendency to be somewhat one-sided.

Kurt Tucholsky has been called a "prophet of European unity", a vision that was later essentially completed by Helmut Kohl and others.^[2] As of 1990, Kohl seemed to be a regular reader of at least some of Tucholsky's works, although it is unclear whether this included his political writings.^[3] On the occasion of a visit by Helmut Kohl to Japan in 1993, a newspaper article speculated that during his meditations in the temples of Kamakura, Kohl could have mused about verses by Tucholsky.^[4]

In 1996, the German author Heribert Prantl received the Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis for his critical writings about German politics. He later wrote a book specifically about Kohl.^[5]

References

^ "Famous Austrians, Germans, Swiss (S-Z)". Hyde Flippo. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
^ King, I. (2001), "Kurt Tucholsky as Prophet of European Unity", German Life and Letters, 54 (2): 164–172, retrieved 2009-05-03
^ "Noch immer wird Tucholsky in Deutschland gelesen, vermutlich sogar von Helmut Kohl ('Das ist der, den ich immer einpacke, wenn ich mal wegfahre', 1990). Aber wird er noch gelesen als politischer Publizist? Oder vielmehr als unsterblicher Humorist und Satiriker?" "Die Nachgeborenen und Tucholsky" (PDF), UTOPIE kreativ, 2006 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |name= ignored (help)
^ "Doch Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl wird sich an diesem Wochenende kaum mit den Versäumnissen der deutschen Japanpolitik befassen. Schade, denn er hätte bei seinen Meditationen in den Tempeln von Kamakura über Kurt Tucholskys Verse sinnieren können: 'Abendland - Morgenland - Mund an Mund - welch ein natürlicher Völkerbund!'" [1]
^ Heribert Prantl (2000), Helmut Kohl, die Macht und das Geld ("Helmut Kohl, Power and Money"). [2]

[1] "Famous Austrians, Germans, Swiss (S-Z)". Hyde Flippo. Retrieved 2009-05-11.

[King2001-2] King, I. (2001), "Kurt Tucholsky as Prophet of European Unity", German Life and Letters, 54 (2): 164–172, retrieved 2009-05-03

[3] "Noch immer wird Tucholsky in Deutschland gelesen, vermutlich sogar von Helmut Kohl ('Das ist der, den ich immer einpacke, wenn ich mal wegfahre', 1990). Aber wird er noch gelesen als politischer Publizist? Oder vielmehr als unsterblicher Humorist und Satiriker?" "Die Nachgeborenen und Tucholsky" (PDF), UTOPIE kreativ, 2006 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |name= ignored (help)

[4] "Doch Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl wird sich an diesem Wochenende kaum mit den Versäumnissen der deutschen Japanpolitik befassen. Schade, denn er hätte bei seinen Meditationen in den Tempeln von Kamakura über Kurt Tucholskys Verse sinnieren können: 'Abendland - Morgenland - Mund an Mund - welch ein natürlicher Völkerbund!'" [1]

[5] Heribert Prantl (2000), Helmut Kohl, die Macht und das Geld ("Helmut Kohl, Power and Money"). [2]

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