Fritz J. Raddatz

Fritz J. Raddatz (1931–2015) was a German writer, journalist, and literary critic. From 1960 to 1969, he was deputy director of Rowohlt Verlag, and from 1977 to 1985 he headed the features section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. Raddatz edited Kurt Tucholsky’s Collected Works and chaired the Kurt Tucholsky Foundation from 1969 to 2011. He published novels, essays, and diaries, including Diaries 1982–2001 and Jahre mit Ledig. In 1986, he was made an Officier des Arts et des Lettres by French President François Mitterrand; in 2010, he received the Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism.