Klaus Rainer Röhl

Klaus Rainer Röhl (born 1928) is a German journalist and writer.

Known as "K2R" he was the publisher of the leftist monthly magazine "konkret" and was married to Ulrike Meinhof before she founded the Rote Armee Fraktion, also known as RAF or the "Baader-Meinhof Gang" together with Andreas Baader.

He made a dramatic swing to the right and wrote for the "Junge Freiheit" before settling for the liberal middle, the German FDP party.

His books include

• Verbotene Trauer (Forbidden Sorrow)
• Linke Lebenslügen (Life lies of the left)
• Lustobjekt. Ein kleiner Irrtum und seine fatalen Folgen (Object of lust. A small error and its fatal consequences)
• Fünf Finger sind keine Faust (Five fingers are not a fist)
• Deutsches Phrasenlexikon (German Phrase Dictionary)
• Deutscher Narrenspiegel (The German Jester's Mirror)