Johannes Theodor Kuhlemann

Kuhlemann worked as an editor and music critic in Saarbrücken for several years after the First World War.

Kuhlemann studied the history, literature, art and music of Europe and mastered seven foreign languages.

He was inspired to write Cologne dialect poetry by the actor, director and theater director Franz Goebels, who had founded the "Theater des werktätigen Volkes" “ [2] in Cologne and with whom he collaborated on the revue D'r zweite halve Hahn.

[3] [4] The book was not a commercial success and most of the print run, published by Karl Nierendorf's Kairos Verlag, was pulped.

He was supported financially by his friend Josef Feinhals, who employed Kuhlemann for eight years in his "Tobacco Museum".