Michael Krüger

Michael Krüger (1943, Germany) is an oustsanding poet and intellectual, long-time editor of Publishing House Carl Hanser and activist for poetry and freedom of expression in the arts. Krüger's poetic opus is vast. It includes 30 books of poems and selections of his poetic opus. Michael also writes essays, short stories and novels. Krüger – as opposed to various poetic contemporaries – uses seemingly simple diction, which in it's deep melancholy speaks to readers in intimate, existentially solitary positions. It's at the same time explicit, musical and subltle emotional. A decade ago he was introduced in Slovenia as novelist, now he is visiting us with an extensive selection of his rich literary opus – with poetry.