Karl Kurt Friedrich Ude (14 January 1906 – 1 April 1997) was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Born in

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, Ude came from a family of white-collar workers. He originally studied , but also philosophy,

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and historical

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at the

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, the

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and Paris. Attracted by

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cultural life and Munich as the "capital of the movement", he settled in Munich in 1926, where he heard among others

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s with

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, who later also became one of his friends. Ude worked as

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and

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for various Munich newspapers. From 1946, he was a member of the editorial board of the ''

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'', and from 1949 to 1973 he was an influential figure in Munich literary life as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine ''Welt und Wort''. Ude and his wife Renée Madeleine, ''née'' Guggisberg are the parents of the former

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. In addition to his journalistic work, Ude has published

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works and edited

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on the subject of Munich. Among others, he received the following awards: the medal in 1966 and 1986, the

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in 1967, the Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis, the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1976, and the

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in 1977. The Bavaria accused Ude - but without elaborating - of having an approving attitude towards the

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in 1933. The Munich author Johann Türk has collected approximately 5,000 articles by Ude published before May 1945 from 20 newspapers for which Ude wrote as a Munich correspondent from 1933 to 1945. According to Türk, in 80 per cent of these articles, Ude engaged in "partly nasty Nazi propaganda".

Work

* ''Das Ringen um die Franziscus-Legende'', Munich 1932 * ''Hier Quack!'', Freiburg 1933 * ''Schelme und Hagestolze'', Mühlacker 1940 * ''Vergnüglicher Stellungswechsel. Heitere Bilder von allen Waffengattungen des Heeres''.

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, Munich 1942 (together with Klaus Kuhn). Was placed on the after the end of the war in the

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(SOZ). * ''Die Pferde auf Elsenhöhe''. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Zeitgeschichte, München 1943. Was put on the list of literature to be discarded in the SOZ after the end of the war. * ''Die Rettung'', Munich 1943 * ''Das Rollschuhlaufbüchlein'', Bad Wörishofen 1948 * ''Vierzehn Tännlein zuviel'', Tübingen 1948 * ''Abenteuer im Dezember'', Gütersloh 1955 * ''Damals, als wir Rollschuh liefen'', Munich 1956 * ''Frank Wedekind'', Mühlacker 1966 * ''Fernsprechtechnik als Lebensaufgabe'', Munich 1981 * ''Schwabing von innen'', Munich 2002

Editorship

* ''Josef Pembaur'', Munich 1940 (published with Otto A. Graef) * ''Hier schreibt München'', Munich 1961 * ''Besondere Kennzeichen'', Munich 1964 *

: ''Wedekind'', Munich 1964 * ''Denk ich an München'', Munich 1966 (published with ) * : ''Das Ernst-Hoferichter-Buch'', Rosenheim 1977

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ude, Karl 20th-century German journalists 20th-century German writers Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany German Nazi propagandists 1906 births 1997 deaths People from Düsseldorf