Kurt Tucholsky: Gripsholm Castle

Gripsholm Castle was published in 1931 and was a story of lovers escaping the big city and the everyday life of work and worry. A funny, ironic, noncommittal and unsentimental story about the summer holiday of the writer Peter and Princess Lydia at the Swedish lake Mälaren in Gripsholm Castle. Gripsholm Castle was first published in the Czech Republic in 1967, and for the second time in Odeon's World Reading edition in 1980. The book was first made into a film in Germany in 1963, starring Jana Brejchová and Walter Giller. reads: Viktor Preiss.