Klaus Budzinski

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Klaus Budzinski (born December 6, 1921 in Berlin ; † October 28, 2016 in Graefelfing ) was a German journalist and author.

Life

Klaus Budzinski was born in 1921 as the son of the Berlin sports journalist Fredy Budzinski and his Jewish wife Erna. After 1933 he had to fear for his life as a “half-Jew” . Although he was still allowed to do his Abitur in 1940, he was no longer able to study. On the mediation of Carl Diem he found an apprentice in the forwarding agency of an opponent of the regime. In 1944 Klaus Budzinski was called up to work for the Todt Organization . Underground he and other forced laborers had to set up a potash mine as a manufacturing facility for submarine construction. There he was liberated by American troops in 1945. The time between 1933 and 1945 he worked on in the book The Rift Through the Whole .

After the war Budzinski went to Munich, where he worked as a journalist and also had contacts with the local cabaret scene. This resulted in several books on the history of German cabaret, so he wrote the cabaret lexicon together with Reinhard Hippen .

Klaus Budzinski was a member of the PEN Center Germany . He was married to the writer Renate Rasp , daughter of the actor Fritz Rasp . He was the nephew of the Berlin costume designer William Budzinski .

Works (selection)

  • As far as the sharp tongue can reach. The anthology of the German-speaking cabaret . Scherz, Munich et al. 1964.
  • with Kristin Bauer-Horn : Left songs . Scherz, Munich 1966
  • The public jokers. Cabaret in the Adenauer era . List, Munich 1966 ( List Pocket Books 301).
  • What is so funny about that? German verse satire of our century . Scherz, Munich 1969
  • Be careful, the mandolin is loaded. German cabaret since 1964 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 1970
  • Pepper in the gear. That's how cabaret is and has become. Universitas, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-8004-1008-7 .
  • Kick and don't let yourself be kicked. A wheel donor for freedom addicts . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-499-12272-3 ( rororo tomato 12272)
  • Who is laughing there? Cabaret from 1945 until today . Westermann, Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-07-509242-8 .
  • The rift through the whole. Colportage of a disturbed becoming German . Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89468-089-X ( series German history 98).
  • with Reinhard Hippen : Metzler Cabaret Lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1996, ISBN 3-476-01448-7 .
  • Can I write that down? Brief encounters with great people . Eugen Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01362-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Budzinski, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2016
Place of death Graefelfing