Kurt Kusenberg

Who was Kurt Kusenberg?

Kurt Kusenberg was a German author of short stories.

Kusenberg was born in Göteborg, Sweden.

His father was an engineer who worked in various countries, so Kusenberg grew up in Lisboa, Portugal and also lived with his parents in North Africa for some time. He studied fine arts in Munich. While working for the publishers Rowohlt as an editor, he wrote nearly seventy short stories. They are unique in the way that dream, reality, humour, and the absolute fantastic are mixed.

Kusenberg died in Hamburg in 1983, aged 79.

In 2004, the 100th anniversary of his birth, a new collection of stories was published.