Horst Krüger

Horst Krüger ( born September 17, 1919 in Magdeburg, † October 21, 1999 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer. His autobiographical debut novel The Broken House. A Youth in Germany is regarded as exemplary processing of a youth in Germany during the Third Reich and accordingly took place international appeal. His travel reports from many parts of the world found a large audience.

Life

Horst Kruger spent his childhood and youth in Berlin. Four years he attended primary school in Eichkamp, nine years the Grunewald Gymnasium. He studied philosophy and literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau.

From 1952 to 1967 he headed the Literary Night Studio of Südwestfunk in Baden -Baden. Since 1967 he has worked as a freelance writer in Frankfurt and wrote mainly travel narratives, often taking a socio- ethnographic perspective and in all eloquence waived feuilletonist arbitrariness. Kruger's subjects were always the Nazi past and its consequences, the German division and the memories of his youth in Berlin- Eichkamp.

He was a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature and the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Awards and honors

1990 Horst Krüger was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. On May 26, 1997, he was awarded the Saxon Constitutional Medal of Landtagspräsident Erich Iltgen.

Works

  • The zerbrochne house. A Youth in Germany. Rütten and Loening, Munich 1966 ISBN 3-423-10665-4 ( German Taschenbuch Verlag )
  • Maps: Explorations of a maverick. Rütten and Loening, Munich 1967
  • German moments: pictures from my homeland. Piper, Munich 1969
  • Strangers homelands: Travel experiences of a German. Piper, Munich 1971 ISBN 3-492-01896-3
  • Time Laughter: A German view. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1973 ISBN 3-455-04013-6
  • Do you know the country: travel narratives. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1987 ISBN 3-455-01892-0
  • Poetic Geography: travel narratives. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1978 ISBN 3-455-04026-8
  • Ludwig, dear Ludwig: An Essay on Bavaria's fairytale King. Hoffmann und Campe 1979 ISBN 3-455-04009-8
  • East-west passages, travel images of two worlds. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1975 ISBN 3-455-04012-8
  • Transit: Collected travel prose. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1980 ISBN 3-455-04007-1
  • Scoffers Twilight: praise and Lamentations at the time. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1981 ISBN 3-455-04027-6
  • The Kurfürstendamm: gloss and misery of a boulevard. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1982 ISBN 3-455-04023-3
  • First moments: travel prose. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1983 ISBN 3-423-10103-2
  • Deeper German Dream: Travel into the past. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1984 ISBN 3-455-04015-2
  • The Spring Travel: 7 Weather letters from Europe. ET hermit Press, ISBN 3-87365-239-0 Dusseldorf 1988
  • Time of no return: Collected feature articles. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1989 ISBN 3-423-11121-6
  • This lust for life: time images. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-38763-4
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