Nora Krug

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Nora Krug

Nora Krug (* 1977 in Karlsruhe ) is a German-American illustrator and author . She lives in New York .

Life

Nora Krug grew up in her native Karlsruhe. As a 16-year-old she was on a student exchange in Canada. After attending grammar school, she studied performance design at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts ( Bachelor with Honors ) and then documentary film and illustration at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she graduated as a designer. In 2002 she went to New York to study Illustration as a Visual Essay ( MFA ) at the School of Visual Arts in New York .

In her multiple award-winning graphic memoir Heimat , Nora Krug records the search for her own family history in the context of the Nazi era. Her maternal grandfather, Willi Rock, a driving instructor in Karlsruhe, plays a role in it, who, according to her research, was one of the followers of the Nazi regime and became a member of the NSDAP in 1933. He died in 1988 when Krug was eleven years old. Her knowledge of the family's past is based on his stories as she performs in Heimat . Her paternal uncle, Franz-Karl Krug, died in northern Italy at the age of 18 during the war in 1944.

The reason for the question of a family complicity in the events of the Nazi era was, among other things, the fact that Krug is married to an American illustrator of Jewish origin and through encounters with her husband's Jewish family she dealt intensively with the question of German collective guilt. Her husband's family had emigrated to the USA from Strasbourg and Frankfurt am Main before the start of the Holocaust. Nora Krug is a German and American citizen. The couple have a daughter (born 2015) and live in Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn.

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Krug's work appears regularly in the New York Times and other international publications. She is the author of the graphic novel Red Riding Hood Redux (Bries, 2011) and the artist book Shadow Atlas (StraneDizioni, 2012). She illustrated the children's book My Cold Went on Vacation , published in 2011 by Penguin / Putnam .

The graphic memoir Heimat - Ein deutsches Familienalbum (Spiegel bestseller and SWR best list 1/2019), published by Penguin in 2018, will be published in other countries: 2018 in the USA (Scribner), UK (Particular Books), Holland (Balans), France (Gallimard). 2019 and 2020 in Ukraine (Dobra Listyvka), Norway (Spartacus), Sweden (Norstedts), Spain (Salamandra), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Italy (Stile Libero), Denmark (Gads), Korea (Bookhouse Publishers Co .), China (Thinkingdom), Lithuania (Aukso Zuvys).

Heimat has also met with great approval outside of Germany (selection for one of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018, one of the 50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018 and one of the Guardian's Best Books of 2018, as an NPR Book of the Year 2018 , as one of the Best Books of 2018 by the Boston Globe, one of the Best Books of 2018 by the San Francisco Chronicle and Kirkus Reviews' Best Memoirs of 2018 , as one of the 8 Must-Read Books You May Have Missed in 2018 by Time Magazine). In the US, Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home received the National Book Critics Circle Award 2018 in the "Autobiography" category.

Her animations were shown at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah and her illustrated biographies were selected for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , The Best American Series and Best American Non-Required Reading .

The work has been awarded gold and silver medals from the Society of Illustrators and the Art Directors Club of New York , among others .

Krug has received study and research grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Maurice Sendak Fellowship, the German Academic Exchange Service and the Fulbright Program. Some of their publications are in the Library of Congress .

In 2005, Nora Krug was appointed professor for illustration and drawing techniques at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel. In 2007 she accepted a professorship in illustration at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.

Awards / nominations for Heimat. A German family album

Works

  • Nora Krug: Red Riding Hood Redux. Bries 2011, ISBN 978-90-76708-91-1 , 400 pp.
  • Nora Krug (illustrations), Molly Rausch (text): My Cold Went on Vacation. Penguin / Putnam 2011, ISBN 978-0-399-25474-1 , 32 pp.
  • Nora Krug: Shadow Atlas. StranEdizioni 2012, 53 pages, 400 numbered copies.
  • Nora Krug (illustrations), Joseph von Eichendorff (poem): Der Jäger Abschied (The Hunters' Farewell). Corraini 2013, ISSN  1972-2842 , 16 pp.
  • Nora Krug: Home. A German family album. Penguin, Munich, 2018, ISBN 978-3-328-60005-3 , 288 pp. (Original American title: Belonging. A German Reckons With History and Home .)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ilka Piepgras: Heimat. On the trail of memories. In: Zeitmagazin No. 34/2018 - zeit.de. August 15, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Andreas Platthaus: Illustrator Nora Krug. Looking through the sea of ​​fog in German history. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - faz.net. August 18, 2018, accessed November 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Juliane Tranacher: Nora Krug. Illustrator. In: citykinder.com. November 1, 2016, accessed November 29, 2019 .
  4. ^ The 10 Best Memoirs of the Decade ... And Then Some. In: lithub.com , December 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Jug, Nora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe