Rudolf Krämer-Badoni

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Rudolf Krämer-Badoni (born December 22, 1913 in Rüdesheim as Rudolf Krämer , † September 18, 1989 in Wiesbaden ) was a German writer .

Life

Rudolf Krämer - son of a post office clerk - studied literature, philosophy, languages ​​and history in Frankfurt am Main after attending grammar school in Geisenheim . In 1937 Rudolf Krämer and the Italian Laura Badoni married, whose name he adopted as the second part of his double name. In 1938 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Rilke and Bachofen . He took part in the Second World War as a member of a medical unit. His first novel Jacobs Jahr , which was already in print and was due to appear in 1943, was not delivered due to suspected hidden criticism of the National Socialist regime and did not appear in a regular edition until the 1970s.

After 1945, Krämer-Badoni was first editor of the Heidelberg magazine Die Wandlung and made trips to Italy. From 1948 he lived as a freelance writer in Rüdesheim. From 1952 to 1962 he wrote reviews for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , from 1963 he worked for Die Welt . In addition to his narrative works, Krämer-Badoni also wrote essays in which he dealt with topics as diverse as art theory , anarchism and oenology . In 1952 he became a member of the PEN center in Germany .

Worldview

In terms of his worldview , Krämer-Badoni was a conservative and anti-communist , which was expressed in his fierce opposition to any leftist tendencies in literature and society in the 1960s and to the policies of the social-liberal government in the 1970s. In 1977 he resigned from the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany because of alleged anti-bourgeois tendencies and switched to the German-Swiss PEN Center.

The fact that Krämer-Badoni was difficult to classify had already been shown in 1962 during the Spiegel affair , when he had called for Adenauer's resignation . In 1977 he resigned from the liberal Free German Authors' Association , to which he now subordinated legal tendencies. The author took similarly fluctuating positions on religious issues: while in 1980 he opposed what he saw as the “ permissive ” and “ liberalist ” attitude of the Catholic Church in a publication and justified the views of the anti-modernist Archbishop Lefebvre , he took it towards the end of his life under the impression of the death of his wife, the turn from Catholicism to atheism , which is also what his last two books are about.

Works

  • In the big drift . Darmstadt 1949
  • Poor Reinhold . Hamburg 1951
  • Land of Open Gates . Wiesbaden 1951
  • My friend Hippolytus . Esslingen 1951
  • Love doesn't think of itself . Darmstadt 1954
  • The island behind the curtain . Wiesbaden 1955
  • The little book about wine . Gütersloh 1960
  • About the reason and essence of art . Frankfurt 1960
  • Art and automation . Vienna 1961
  • They saw a yellow star (with Gertrud Busch and Peter Laregh ). Berlin 1961
  • Moving targets . Wiesbaden 1962
  • Violence and Effect of the Printed Word . Munich 1962
  • Careful, good people from the left. Articles and essays . Mohn, Gütersloh 1962
  • Taunus (with Josef Jeiter ). Frankfurt am Main 1963
  • Ignatius of Loyola or The Greater Glory of God . Cologne 1964
  • The image of entrepreneurs in our time . Munich 1966
  • The burden of being catholic . Munich 1967
  • Germany, your Hessen . Hamburg 1968
  • Anarchism . Vienna 1970
  • My enviable life . Hamburg 1972
  • The cute revolution . Opladen 1973
  • Equation with an unknown . Hamburg 1977
  • Jacobs year . Darmstadt 1978
  • The world wine book . Stuttgart 1978
  • Revolution in the Church . Munich 1980
  • Galileo Galilei . Munich 1983
  • Between all stools . Munich 1985
  • Murder of Jews, murder of women, Holy Church . Munich 1988
  • Live, love, die without God . Munich 1989
As editor
Translations

literature

Eric Steinhauer :  Rudolf Krämer-Badoni. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 827-828.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Review of “Judenmord, Frauenmord, Heilige Kirche” with a longer quotation from Der Humanist

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Krämer-Badoni, Rudolf, p. 244 .
  2. ↑ 20 essays, mostly newspaper articles from FAZ and Die Welt . Without references. Contains: preface; Careful, good people from the left; Successful July 20th ; Bankruptcy of double standards; The free success and the payers; German citizens on the Sardinian beach; The Topos of the Critique of Time ; We live in the second phase; Machiavellian democracy; Risky occidental existence; The human opportunity in the industrial world; Note about the self-image of industrial society ; Tutoring for social critics; Stendhals Ketman; Revisions in the Flaubert affair ; A life against the counterfeiters; Ernst Jünger 60 years old; Gottfried Benn ; Benn, Brecht or Kesten ; Kasimir Edschmid ; The annihilation of anarchism
personal data
SURNAME Kramer-Badoni, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kramer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudesheim am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1989
Place of death Wiesbaden