Michael Krüger (writer)

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Michael Krüger (born December 9, 1943 in Wittgendorf , Zeitz district ) is a German writer , poet , publisher and translator .

Life

Michael Krüger grew up in a Protestant family in Berlin-Nikolassee . In his youth he sang in the church choir and was a member of the Christian Youth Union . After graduating from high school , he completed an apprenticeship as a publisher at Herbig-Verlag. He was also a guest student in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . From 1962 to 1965 he worked as a bookseller in London .

From 1968 Krüger worked as a publishing editor at Carl Hanser Verlag . He became literary director of the publishing house in 1986 and managing director in 1995. He left on December 31, 2013 and his successor Jo Lendle took over the management.

In 1973, Krüger founded the first cooperatively organized author's bookstore in Munich together with Martin Gregor-Dellin , Jürgen Kolbe , Fritz Arnold, Paul Wühr , Inge Poppe , Christoph Buggert , Günter Herburger , Tankred Dorst and Peter Laemmle .

His own literary work was initially limited to forewords and epilogues to anthologies and edited volumes that he edited. It was not until 1976 that his first work, the volume of poetry Reginapoly, appeared . His first story entitled What to do? was published in 1984. In 1991 - one year after his novella Das Ende des Romans - his first of four novels was published under the title The Man in the Tower .

In July 2013, Krüger was elected by the members of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts as their president. He replaced Dieter Borchmeyer and held the office from July 2013 to June 2019. In 2015, he was curator of the Cologne literature festival Poetica .

Michael Krüger lives in Munich .

Works (selection)

Autograph

Authorship

  • Reginapoly. Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich / Vienna 1976.
  • Diderot's cat. Poems. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1978.
  • Necrologist. With a foreword by Ludwig Harig . Harlequin Press (in 250 numbered copies), Pforzheim 1979.
  • Lida's pocket museum. Poems. With drawings by the author. Pfaffenweiler press (200 copies), Pfaffenweiler 1981.
  • Out of the plane. Poems. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1982.
  • Repetitions. Publishing house Klaus Wagenbach . Berlin 1983.
  • What to do? An old fashioned story. Klaus Wagenbach (Quartheft 131), Berlin 1984.
  • The dronte. Poems. Hanser, Munich 1985.
  • Zoo. Poems. Pfaffenweiler press (300 copies), Pfaffenweiler 1986.
  • Why Beijing? A Chinese story. Klaus Wagenbach (Quartheft 145), Berlin 1986.
  • Why me? A German story. Klaus Wagenbach (Quartheft 152), Berlin 1987.
    • Why Beijing? Why me? Two stories. Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1989.
      • Why me? Three hair-raising stories (What to do? Why Beijing? Why me?) Wagenbach, Berlin 2000.
  • Idylls and illusions. Diary poems. Klaus Wagenbach (Quartheft 165), Berlin 1989.
  • Beyond the border. Poems. Pfaffenweiler press (400 copies), Pfaffenweiler 1990.
  • The end of the novel. A novella. Residenz Verlag , Salzburg 1990.
  • The man in the tower. Novel. Residence, Salzburg 1991.
  • Sky color Novel. Residence, Salzburg 1993.
  • Letter home. Poems. Residence, Salzburg 1993.
  • At night, under trees. Poems. Residence, Salzburg 1996.
  • Weather forecast. Poems. Residence, Salzburg 1998.
  • From the life of a successful writer. Stories. Sanssouci Verlag , Munich 1998.
  • The sheep in sheep's clothing and other satires from the world of books. Sanssouci, Zurich 2000.
  • The cello player. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • Nobody knows better than the moon. Poems (based on pictures by Quint Buchholz ). Hanser, Munich 2001.
    • Who catches the moonlight. Pictures and poems. Sanssouci, Zurich 2001.
  • From light to dark. Nine poems to nine etchings by Erika Hegewisch. Merlin Verlag , Gifkendorf 2001.
  • The wrong house. A novella. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • Just before the thunderstorm. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • Forewords, remarks, obituaries. A (sketchy) ABC. Sanssouci, Munich / Vienna 2003.
  • Literature & alcohol. Liquid basics of letter intoxication. (With Ekkehard Faude). Libelle Verlag , Lengwil 2004.
  • The Turin Comedy. Administrator's report. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005.
  • Under the open sky. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • Literature as food. Sanssouci, Munich 2008.
  • Pegs. Katzengraben-Presse , Berlin-Köpenick, 2008.
  • Steps, shadows, days, borders: poems 1976–2008. Edited and with an afterword by Hans Jürgen Balmes. S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-18491-0 .
  • Pure. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42168-0 .
  • Change of time. Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42394-3 .
  • The god behind the window. Stories. Haymon Verlag , Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7099-7191-8 .
  • Allowing the unplanned. A defense of the poetic. Munich speeches on poetry. Edited by Holger Pils and Frieder von Ammon. Poetry Cabinet , 2014.
  • The madhouse. Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7099-7252-6 .
  • Once easy . Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3518427989 .
  • Temporary . Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3709934388 .
  • My Europe. Poems from the diary . Haymon, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-7099-3483-8 .

Translations

  • Peter Sís : Follow your dream. The incredible story of Christopher Columbus . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1992.
  • Peter Sís: Komodo! Where the last dragons live . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1994.
  • Peter Sís: The three golden keys . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1995.
  • Peter Sís: The incredible story of Jan Welzl . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1996.
  • Peter Sís: Tibet. The secret of the red box . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1998.
  • Peter Sís: The little whale and the sea . Pestalozzi Children's Foundation, Foundation Secretariat, Zurich 2000. (One-time special edition).
  • Madonna : Billie Cash . Children's book. Illustrations by Rui Paes. Hanser Verlag, Munich [u. a.] 2005.
  • Peter Sís: The wall. What it was like to grow up behind the Iron Curtain . Hanser Verlag, Munich [u. a.] 2007
  • Barack Obama : I want to sing about you: A letter to my daughters . With pictures by Loren Long. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23880-0 .
  • David Grossman : The hug. With drawings by Michal Rovner . Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23855-8 .

Release

speaker

Awards

Memberships

Quote

"My goal is to show people that a day without reading a poem is a lost day." (1999)

Web links

Commons : Michael Krüger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Krüger, Christine Lavant, in: Klaus Amann (Ed.), Turn the heart spindle further for me. Christine Lavant on the 100th Göttingen 2015. p. 59.
  2. ↑ M. Krüger, Christine Lavant, in: Klaus Amann (Ed.), Turn the heart spindle further for me. Christine Lavant on the 100th Göttingen 2015. p. 59.
  3. ↑ Stefan Kister: I was always missing an hour. Interview with Krüger stuttgarter-zeitung.de, October 4, 2013, accessed on December 1, 2013
  4. ^ Academy of Fine Arts: Nerdinger's new president , welt.de, May 9, 2019, accessed on December 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Villa Massimo | Scholarships. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ boersenblatt.net January 2, 2013 Literary Life Kythera Prize to Michael Krüger , accessed on January 2, 2013
  7. ↑ Press release on receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 ( Memento from May 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ Volker Weidermann: Kisses, kisses from the nose, wrestling matches. faz.net, January 18, 2014, accessed January 18, 2014
  9. ^ "Trailblazer. Michael Krüger honored" , FAZ from January 23, 2017, p. 9 (D1 edition)
  10. ↑ member entry by Michael Kruger at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 16.10.17
  11. ↑ “Not a day without a poem.” In: Die Welt , July 24, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, poet, publisher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittgendorf