Peter Crome

Peter Crome (born September 16, 1938 in Karuizawa , Japan ; † December 16, 2003 in Cologne ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Peter Crome was born in Japan in 1938 as the son of the German correspondent Werner Crome (1896–1972), a grandson of the Justice Council Friedrich Crome . After the end of the Second World War , Crome and his parents, like almost all Germans, were repatriated from Japan .

Crome studied Ancient History , Newspaper Studies and Classical Philology in Munich. With his dissertation Symbol and Inadequacy of Language , he received his doctorate in 1966 under the Italian philosopher Ernesto Grassi .

Peter Crome followed his father in his professional career and eventually also became a correspondent for various newspapers in Japan and Southeast Asia , including for Spiegel and Frankfurter Rundschau . In 1983 he returned to Germany, where he died in 2004. During his time in Japan and eventually back in Germany, Crome wrote several Japan-related books.

Peter Crome was born with Luise Crome. Schäfer, also a journalist, married.

Publications

• Symbol and inadequacy of language. Iamblichos, Plotinus, Porphyrios, Proklos , 1970.
• The tiger grill. A satirical novel from Japan . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984.
• The Akiya Monster, children's book. Überreuter 1987.
• The Tenno. Japan behind the chrysanthemum curtain . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-462-01931-7 .
  • New edition updated and expanded by the author with the title: Japan behind the chrysanthemum curtain. Life and Politics of Tenno Hirohito . dtv, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-11301-4 .
• The uncle from Meissen. A tragicomic picture of the times , 1993.
• The island of the invisible . Bitter, Recklinghausen 1996.
• Tom in New York , 1996.

Web links

• Crome, Peter ク ロ メ ・ ペ タ (1938–2004), foreign correspondent, writer (1827–1893) at das-japanische-gedaechtnis.de