Jürgen Kross

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Jürgen Kross (actually Hinrich Jürgen Kroß ; born August 26, 1937 in Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge , Lower Silesia Province ; † January 22, 2019 in Mainz ) was a German writer and bookseller .

life and work

Jürgen Kross, who lived in Mainz, worked as an independent bookseller. He wrote mostly poetry , which was published in numerous individual titles, anthologies and literary magazines. In addition, he emerged as the author of short stories , radio plays and short plays as well as co-editor of anthologies such as the Rhineland-Palatinate Yearbook for Literature. Jürgen Kross' poetry is characterized by rhythmic rigor. The entire lyrical work is conceived as a cycle of poems , the central theme of which is death . The poems can be viewed as a modern form of nature poetry . Human acts of violence, murders and suicides are a common theme in the narratives. The portrayal of the figures sometimes takes on grotesque features, which are also typical of Kross' dramatic works.

Single track

  • Location . Pfullingen 1975 (2nd edition 1976)
  • amidst . Aarau / Frankfurt am Main / Salzburg 1980
  • Cold front . Scenes, poetry and prose. Wiesbaden / Munich 1984
  • given . poems. Rhodt 1986
  • spacetime . Rhodt 1988
  • Hardship . Poems. Karlsruhe 1990
  • last hand . Zurich 1991
  • Fire sites . Poems. Brandes & Apsel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-86099-427-1
  • Change of view . Poems. With graphics by Angela Reichel. Brandes & Apsel Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-86099-444-1 .
  • dead hail . Cycle of poems. Hamburg 1997
  • shadows . lyric. Frankfurt am Main 1997
  • solar plexus . Cycle of poems. Hamburg 1998
  • inclusions . Read book 36. Berlin 2000
  • conversed . poems. Frankfurt am Main 2000
  • groves . Cycle of poems. Hamburg 2000
  • washed up . Cycle of poems. Hamburg 2001
  • Hellfire . Stories. Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • foreign good . Poems. Frankfurt am Main 2004
  • snow light . Poems. Augsburg 2005
  • borderline . Poems. Frankfurt am Main 2007
  • take refuge . Poetry and photography (with Nicole Ahland) Stolzalpe 2007
  • eclipses . Poems. Erwin Rauner Verlag, Augsburg, 2012
  • call wide . Poems. Wolfgang Hager Verlag, Stolzalpe, 2013
  • upheaval . Poems. Driesch Verlag, Drösing, 2014
  • addendum , in: Twenty Years 1995 - 2015 ERV. Erwin Rauner Verlag, Augsburg 2015
  • ice drift . Poems. Erwin Rauner Verlag, Augsburg, 2015
  • Ravines . Poems. Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin, 2016
  • run astray traces . Poems. Erwin Rauner Verlag, Augsburg 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Kross. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 528.
personal data
SURNAME Kross, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kroß, Hinrich Jürgen (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains , Lower Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH 22nd January 2019
Place of death Mainz