Michael Krüger (writer)
Michael Krüger ( born December 9, 1943 in Wittgendorf ) is a German writer, poet, editor and translator. He's since July 2013 President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Life and work
Michael Krüger grew up in Berlin. After leaving school he served an apprenticeship as a publisher in the Herbig -Verlag. The same time he was a guest student in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. From 1962 to 1965 he worked as a bookseller in London.
From 1968, Kruger worked as an editor at the publishing house Carl Hanser Verlag. In 1986 he was the literary director of the publishing house in 1995 and Managing Director. At December 31, 2013, and resigned from his successor Lendle Jo stepped to the management. In 1973 he founded in Munich together with Martin Gregor- Dellin, Jürgen Kolbe, Fritz Arnold, Paul Wühr, Inge Poppe, Christoph Buggert, Günter Herburger, Tancred Dorst and Peter Laemmle, the first cooperative Author bookstore.
His own literary work was initially limited to prefaces and epilogues to anthologies and anthologies, which he edited. In 1976 he released his debut, a collection of poems Reginapoly. His first story entitled What to do? . appeared appeared 1984 1991 - a year after his novel The end of the novel - his first of the previous three novels, The man in the tower.
In July 2013 he was elected by the members of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts for their president. He replaced Dieter Borchmeyer.
Michael Kruger lives in Munich.
Works (selection)
- Reginapoly. Poems, Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1976
- Diderot's cat. Poems, Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1978
- Obituaries. With a foreword by Ludwig Harig, Harlequin Press ( in 250 num. Copies), Pforzheim 1979
- Lida's Museum of Bags. Poems. With drawings by the author, Pfaffenweiler press ( 200 copies), Pfaffenweiler 1981
- From the plane, poems, Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1982
- Repetitions, Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 1983
- What to do? An old-fashioned story, Klaus Wagenbach (quart Issue 131), Berlin 1984
- The dodo. Poems, Hanser, Munich 1985
- Zoo. Poems, Pfaffenweiler press ( 300 copies), Pfaffenweiler 1986
- Why Beijing? A Chinese story, Klaus Wagenbach (quart Issue 145 ), Berlin 1986
- Why do I? A German Story, Klaus Wagenbach (quart Number 152 ), Berlin 1987 Why Beijing? Why do I? Two stories, people and the world, Berlin 1989 Why do I? Three hair-raising stories ( What to do? Why Beijing? Why do I? ), Wagenbach, Berlin 2000
- Who catches the moonlight. Pictures and poems, Sanssouci, Zurich 2001
Translations
- Peter Sís: Follow your dream. The incredible story of Christopher Columbus. Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1992.
- Peter Sís: Komodo! Where the last dragon live. Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1994.
- Peter Sis: The three golden keys. Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1995.
- Peter Sis: The incredible story by Jan Welzl. Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1996.
- Peter Sís: Tibet. The secret of the red box. Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1998.
- Peter Sis: The little whale and the sea. Pestalozzi Children's Foundation, Foundation Secretariat, Zurich 2000. ( One-off special edition ).
- Madonna: Billie cash. Children's book. Illustrations by Rui Paes. Hanser Verlag, München [ et al ] 2005.
- Peter Sis: The Wall. How was it growing up behind the Iron Curtain. Hanser Verlag, München [ et al ] 2007
- Barack Obama: From you I want to sing: A letter to my daughters. Illustrated by Loren Long. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23880-0.
Speaker
- Audiobook: Tomas Transtromer: The memories see me. From Swedish by Hanns Grössel. Audiobook Verlag, Hamburg 2011, 2 CD, 109 min. ISBN 978-3-89903-370-0.
Quote
"My goal is to show people that a day without reading a poem is a day wasted. " (1999)
Publication
- Literature Yearbook squid ( with Klaus Wagenbach ) since 1968
- Literary magazine Accents ( together with Hans Bender) since 1976 ( since 1981 sole editor )
- Edition accents by Hanser (since 1983)
- Year Book of Poetry ( with Christoph Buchwald ), Munich 2003
Awards
Memberships
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- German Academy for Language and Literature, Darmstadt
- Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Académie Européenne de Poésie Mersch, Luxembourg
- Member of the Foundation Board of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
- PEN Center Germany