Olaf Kraemer

Olaf Kraemer (* 1959 in Cuxhaven ) is a German book and film author. Today he lives in Munich .

Life

Kraemer lived in the United States from 1987 to 1998, where he wrote a non-fiction book on hallucinogens , among other things , and from 1994 to 1996 worked for Matthias Horx and Peter Wippermann's trend office in California . Until his time in Los Angeles, Kraemer lived in Göttingen and Berlin and studied ethnology and journalism at the Free University of Berlin .

In 1972 he was co-founder of the Göttingen youth book working group and co-founder and singer of the bands Die Goldenen Vampire and Thorax Wach . From 1984 to 1996 he worked as a translator for Jim Thompson , Larry McMurtry and James Redfield , among others, and an author and cultural journalist for the Berliner Tip and the Berliner Tagesspiegel, among others . After a concert with the American punk rock band Ramones in 1986, Kraemer left the Golden Vampires and stayed in Los Angeles, where he met Uschi Obermaier , Timothy Leary and Kinky Friedman, among others .

Kraemer Uschi Obermaier-biography of High Times (2007), 27 weeks stopped on the mirror - bestseller list . His first novel End of a Night (2008) is only available in censored form due to an injunction . The relationship between actress Magda Schneider and Adolf Hitler from the point of view of her daughter Romy Schneider , whose last hours of life are fictionalized in the book , is shown at the indexed points . After a hearing before the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court against the underlying preliminary injunction, the court came to the verdict in October 2009 that, with the exception of a single passage, the author's artistic freedom should be given preference over post-mortem personal rights.

In 2011 he began to publish the youth science fiction trilogy Abaton together with Christian Jeltsch .

Kraemer has a son with the American photographer Hadley Hudson.

Filmography

• 1993: I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
• 2002: Three women, a plan and the big money
• 2002: Too close to the fire
• 2007: The wild life
• 2010: Ken Follett's Ice Fever
• 2012: Lena Fauch and the daughter of the gunman
• 2016: Five Women (Director, Screenplay)
• 2017: Tatort: ​​Back into the light
• 2019: Stralsund: shadow lines

Web links

• Olaf Kraemer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Olaf Kraemer at filmportal.de
• Literature by and about Olaf Kraemer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author page at Random House

bibliography

• 1990: The gold diggers of '90. The art of a true better life (with Jones in E minor), Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt / Main and Berlin. ISBN 3-548-22275-7
• 1997: Lucifer's garden of light. Expeditions into the realm of hallucinogens , Hugendubel, Munich (with CD). ISBN 3-89631-179-4
• 2007: High Times. My wild life (with Uschi Obermaier), Heyne Verlag, Munich. ISBN 978-3-453-13010-4
• 2008: End of a night. The last hours of Romy Schneider , Roman, Blumenbar, Munich. ISBN 978-3-936738-50-6 (blackened version), ISBN 978-3-936738-42-1 (complete version), ISBN 978-3-936738-71-1 (version with blackening)
• 2011: ABATON. From the end of fear (with Christian Jeltsch), Mixtvision Verlag, Munich. ISBN 978-3-939435-38-9
• 2012: ABATON. The lure of evil (with Christian Jeltsch), Mixtvision Verlag, Munich. ISBN 978-3-939435-52-5
• 2013: ABATON. Im Bann der Freiheit (with Olaf Kraemer), Mixtvision Verlag, Munich. ISBN 978-3-939435-68-6