Hans Krieger
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Hans Krieger (born 13 March 1933) is a German writer, essayist, journalist of influential weekly papers such as Die Zeit, broadcaster and poet. He lives and works in Munich.
Born in Frankfurt am Main, Krieger studied German and Romance Studies in Frankfurt, Munich and Dijon. From 1963 to 1998, he was cultural editor and director of the arts section of the weekly Bayerische Staatszeitung (Bavarian State newspaper). Krieger wrote poetry, essays, cultural criticism, theater and art reviews, translated books from French and taught theatre criticism at the University of Munich. He has authored numerous papers and radio journalism for the Bavarian radio, Bayerischer Rundfunk, and literary and nonfiction reviews in the newspapers Die Zeit and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others. He has been an influential reviewer of books and authors, such as Wilhelm Reich, Alice Miller, Arthur Janov, Arno Gruen and Otto Mainzer.
Since 1963, Krieger has been active in discussions to reform German orthography. He fought the German orthography reform of 1996. His book Der Rechtschreibschwindel – Zwischenrufe zu einem absurden Reformtheater ("The Orthography Fraud – Heckling in the Theater of Absurd Reform"), first published in 1998 and expanded in 2000, is a collection of essays on the topic, in print and broadcast, from 1971 to 2000. In 2003, he was co-author of the book Deutsch. Eine Sprache wird beschädigt ("German. A Language Gets Damaged"), illustrated by Paul Flora. In 2004, he was a co-founder of the independent association "Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung" (Council for German Orthography) and became its president. He was one of the 100 authors who signed an appeal to withdraw the 1996 orthography change, alongside Günter Grass, Martin Walser and Ralph Giordano. Krieger was from 1999 to 2002 president of the Stiftung zur Förderung des Schrifttums (Foundation for the Advancement of Writing) in Munich, which was founded by Friedrich Märker and has awarded the Friedrich-Märker-Preis for essays since 1986. Krieger himself received the prize in 1997.
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