Olaf Saile

Olaf Saile ( born August 27, 1901 in Weitingen, † June 29, 1952 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German writer.

As editor in Rathenow Olaf Saile was arrested on 22 June 1933 and placed in the Oranienburg concentration camp, because he had spoken publicly in speech and writing to the Nazi regime. His second wife Katherine Lambert could reach with the help of their press card in the camp and published a heavily embellished report on the conditions there, whereupon Olaf Saile was dismissed. He was banned from working, moved to Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt and held himself and his family with literary works on water. As a freelance writer then, he was also active in the Süddeutsche Rundfunk Stuttgart. Before war broke out in 1939 he moved to Esslingen, where he built himself a house. After 1945, he was appointed in Unteruhldingen / Bodensee mayor. He died in his office in Esslingen, sitting at desk. His grave is in the cemetery of St. Bernhardt.

His fictional biography of Kepler can be understood as disguised protest against the Nazi regime. The book was published in 1940 under the title Troubadour of the Stars in New York. Translated it had James A. Galston.

Works

• Eds, Swabian narrator, Stuttgart 1937
• And again it is summer, Stuttgart 1937
• Johannes Kepler. Novel of a new era, Stuttgart 1938
• About the use of Swabia, EGSeeger, Stuttgart 1950