Krämer-Badoni, Rudolf

Writer

born: 22.12.1913 in Rüdesheim

died: 18.09.1989 in Wiesbaden

After leaving school, Krämer-Badoni studied literature, philosophy and history in Frankfurt. After marrying the Italian Laura Badoni, he added her name to his own. He received his doctorate in 1938. During the Second World War, he was a soldier in a medical unit.

His first novel "Jacob's Year" was due to be published in 1943. However, the already printed edition was not delivered due to suspected criticism of National Socialism. The novel was not published until 1978.

After 1945, Krämer-Badoni worked as an editor at the Heidelberg magazine "Die Wandlung". From 1948 he lived as a freelance writer in Rüdesheim, moving to Wiesbaden in 1957. From 1952-62 he was a reviewer at the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", from 1963 he worked for "Die Welt". In addition to novels, short stories, non-fiction, political-philosophical works and newspaper articles, he wrote radio plays and worked as a translator. In essays, he dealt with art theory, anarchism and oenology.

Krämer-Badoni was a lateral thinker who was regarded by the left as a disguised right-winger and by the right as an unpredictable contemporary. As a conservative, he fought against left-wing tendencies in society and literature in the 1960s and took particular issue with the writers of Group 47 as "fools of the nation". He also opposed the policies of the social-liberal government under Willy Brandt. On the other hand, he demanded the resignation of Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauß and Federal Interior Minister Hermann Höcherl in the 1962 Spiegel affair.

His estate can be found in the German Literature Archive in Marbach.