Matthias Werner Kruse

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Matthias Werner Kruse, 1982

Matthias Werner Kruse (born December 24, 1919 in Nordhausen am Harz , † July 20, 2007 in Werneuchen ) was a German writer .

Life

Matthias Werner Kruse was born as the second son of the businessman and manufacturer Fritz Kruse, co-owner of the Grimm & Triepel Kruse chewing tobacco company . Together with his friend Rudolf Hagelstange , he attended the boys' middle school and later went to the Nordhausen grammar school. Several school changes followed, including to the monastery school in Ilfeld ; most recently he attended the upper level Spiekeroog on the North Sea. Then he wanted to start an apprenticeship as a bookseller, but had to embark on a commercial career in Halle / Saale . After his apprenticeship he was in the Army convened and came in second world war in a prisoner of war , where some poems were written. After 1945 he entered into correspondence with Hermann Hesse and his family. Kruse joined the SPD and initially worked as a farm worker, later he was a commercial trainee in Leipzig and then a freelancer in the cultural department of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk . Since 1950 he lived in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . After two years of study, he published samples of his poetry for the first time in 1962. In 1967 his first novel "The Blue Lion" was published with an edition of 70,000 copies.

Works

  • Wind evacuator . Norderstedt: Libri Books on Demand, 2000.
  • Pan Twardowski or the strange encounter with the doppelganger during the Steenbrugge fair . Rudolstadt: Greifenverlag, 1981.
  • The blue lion . Rudolstadt: Greifenverlag, 1967.

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personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Matthias Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 2007
Place of death Werneuchen