A rousing portrait of the biting journalist and whimsical bohemian Anton Kuh. Walter Schübler's biography portrays the flamboyant bon vivant Anton Kuh in all his facets: the pugnacious publicist who glossed current Viennese and Berlin events with polemical verve; the wide-awake chronicler of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s; the self-confessed "leftist" who risked his neck in the confrontation with the Nazis; the "Gegenteils-Fex" who had fun teasing Karl Kraus for years; the bohemian who, programmatically tactless, never missed an opportunity to provoke; the exhilarated neurasthenic who lived an almost suicidal life; the brilliant impromptu orator who let his trains of thought run hot and thus drew his audience to storms of applause. This first biography of the "speechmaker" reconstructs.