Horst Krautkrämer

Horst Krautkrämer (* July 8, 1937 - June 14, 2010 ) was a German radio editor and promoter of the radio play .

Life

Krautkrämer studied law, German and history at the University of Heidelberg and received his doctorate there in 1961 with a thesis on German radio play. He then worked in the science department of the Heidelberg studio of the then Süddeutscher Rundfunk , which he would later head for a long time. In order to popularize scientific knowledge and ways of thinking, he intensively promoted the genre of the science fiction radio play from 1966, starting with the mutiny on Venus by Herbert W. Franke in 1967 . This resulted in the long-lasting series Science Fiction in radio and Science Fiction in radio gameswhich made it to well over a hundred episodes. These included 23 radio plays by Hermann Ebeling alone . In 1972, Krautkrämer (together with Heinrich Schirmbeck and Hans Elsässer ) was a member of the jury for the competition for science fiction radio plays by German up-and-coming authors, which received 243 manuscripts. 3 first prizes were awarded to Eva Maria Mudrich , Heinz-Joachim Frank and Hans-Peter Buschmann and a "consolation prize" to Dieter Kühn. In 1986, Krautkrämer handed over the management of the Science Fiction series on radio to Andreas Weber-Schäfer .

Works

• The German radio play 1945-1961. Basic themes, artistic structure and sociological function , dissertation, 1962
• This is how the bees do it , radio play, 1979 (printed as a short story in SF International II , edited by Herbert W. Franke, Goldmann Verlag, 1981, ISBN 3-442-23388-7 )
• 25 years "SF as a radio game" , in: Science Fiction Media , issue 92, 1992

literature

• Horst G. Tröster: The father of the German science fiction radio play is dead , in: The Science Fiction Year 2011 , edited by Sascha Mamczak , Wolfgang Jeschke and Sebastian Pirling, Heyne, Munich 2011, pp. 685–687. ISBN 978-3-453-53379-0