Debbie Kruger
| Debbie Kruger | |
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| Born |
14 August 1962 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Pen name | Krug |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Subject | Rock music, popular culture |
| Notable works | Songwriters Speak |
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Debbie Kruger (born 14 August 1962 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer, she wrote Songwriters Speak in August 2005, which contains interviews with 45 Australian and New Zealand songwriters about their craft. Kruger was the Sydney correspondent for weekly entertainment newspaper, Variety, for three years with the moniker of Krug. She works in public relations with her company Kruger PRofiles and in radio broadcasting, she has also worked as Manager of Communications for Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA).
Debbie Kruger was born in 1962 in Sydney, New South Wales, the first child of English-born Lou Kruger and Romanian-born Lisa Kruger née Berkowitz. She was brought up with younger sister Paula in the Jewish faith as members of the North Shore Synagogue. She attended primary school in a class group of seven children at Masada College, then secondary school with 200 students at Killara High School. She dropped out of her Communications degree course at Mitchell College of Advanced Education (now Charles Sturt University) in Bathurst in 1981. She completed tertiary studies with a Bachelor of Arts, followed by Master of Arts in Theatre Studies, at the University of NSW. Kruger developed an interest in theatre and decided to undertake a career in dramaturgy.
Kruger's first job was with the Australian Writers' Guild in 1985 as a membership officer, she became a freelance journalist in 1986, writing on pop-culture, including Music, Film & Television, Arts & Theatre, Travel, and Lifestyle. Kruger was a staff writer for the weekly entertainment newspaper, Variety, becoming the Sydney correspondent during December 1986 – February 1990, and then based in London from March 1990, but she left Variety at the end of the year. While writing for Variety her reviews used Krug as her moniker.
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