Heinz Ludwig Arnold (29 March 1940 – 1 November 2011) was a German literary journalist and publisher.
[1][2] Heinz Ludwig Arnold attended schools in Bochum and, subsequently Karlsruhe.
From 1978 Arnold also produced the Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur [de] (Critical lexicon of contemporary German-language literature) published by edition text + kritik [de],[3] to which between 1983 and 2008 he added the Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur [de] (KLfG) (Critical lexicon of contemporary non-German literature").
During his career Arnold undertook a series of in-depth interviews with leading authors including Heinrich Böll, Max Frisch, Günter Grass, Wolfgang Koeppen, Max von der Grün, Günter Wallraff, Peter Handke, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Gerhard Zwerenz, Walter Jens, Peter Rühmkorf and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Appearing initially in various book related publications, the original interview recordings from the years 1970 to 1999 (having a combined duration of 62 hours) were assembled and published in 2011.