Karl Kurt Friedrich Ude (14 January 1906 – 1 April 1997) was a German journalist and writer.
Ude worked as literature and theatre critic for various Munich newspapers.
From 1946, he was a member of the editorial board of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, 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.
The Bund für Geistesfreiheit [de] Bavaria accused Ude - but without elaborating - of having an approving attitude towards the Nazi book burnings in 1933.
According to Türk, in 80 per cent of these articles, Ude engaged in "partly nasty Nazi propaganda".