Michael Saur

Michael Saur (* 1967 in Munich ) is a German writer .

Life

Michael Saur trained as a bookseller and moved to New York in 1994. From there he created portraits of TC Boyle , Michael Cunningham , Maurice Sendak , Gary Paulsen, Paul Auster , Susanna Moore , Steven Millhauser , Richard Ford , Martin Amis , Toni Morrison , Will Self , Robert Schneider , Abraham Rodriguez jr , Louis Begley , Joseph O'Neill and others. A selection appeared in his book Background Noise (2001).

In 2002 the novel The Hippopotamus came out. The second novel followed in 2007 with the title The Shadow Next Door . A new novel will appear at the end of 2009. Michael Saur also published a travel book about Cuba (2000) and, together with his father Karl-Otto Saur jr, a book about his grandfather Karl-Otto Saur , who was a National Socialist and served as Secretary of State for Armaments under Hitler in the Third Reich .

Saur studied literature with the deconstructivist Avital Ronell in Berlin and New York (MA).

Books

• Life was a whistle, Cuban escapes . Picus Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85452-734-9 .
• Background noise. Visiting American writers . Picus Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85452-450-1 .
• The hippopotamus rider . Picus Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85452-459-5 .
• The shadow next door . Picus Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85452-618-6 .
• with Karl-Otto Saur: It was in Hitler's will. A German family heritage. Econ, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-430-20026-4 .
• I Want to Write like a Good Jazz Musician Interview with Toni Morrison. In: Carolyn C. Denard (Ed.): Toni Morrison. Conversations. University of Mississippi Press, Mississippi 2008, ISBN 978-1-60473-018-0 .
• The trip. In: Dorothea Löcker, Alexander Potyka (Hrsg.): Murder success. Picus Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7117-2014-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Saur in the catalog of the German National Library