About the Author
Kurt Kreiler

ANONYMOUS SHAKE-SPEARE


Kurt Kreiler (b. 23 June 1950) is a German author and dramaturg. He read philology and philosophy at university, his studies culminating in a doctoral thesis on the short lived Councils Republic of Munich (1918/19). In 1983 he began work as a writer for television and radio. In 2009 Kreiler wrote “The Man who invented Shakespeare”; a book that caused a considerable stir in Germany.

Publications:

Fanal: Aufsätze und Gedichte von Erich Mühsam 1905–1932. Berlin 1977

Traditionen deutscher Justiz [German legal Traditions]: Politische Prozesse 1914–1932. Berlin 1978

Innen-Welt: Verständigungstexte Gefangener. [An insight into the German penal system as seen through the eyes of prison inmates.] Frankfurt a.M. 1979

In irrer Gesellschaft: Verständigungstexte über Psychotherapie u. Psychiatrie. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a.M. 1980

Otto Gross: Von geschlechtlicher Not zur sozialen Katastrophe. [From Sex-drive to social Demise] (Robinson) Frankfurt a.M. 1980

Sie machen uns langsam tot: Zeugnisse politischer Gefangener in Deutschland 1780-1980 [They are killing us slowly. An anthology of statements from first-hand witnesses on the subject of political imprisonment in Germany]. (Luchterhand) Darmstadt 1984

Stella Silberstein. Hotel Excelsior: Tagebuch einer Spurensuche 1945/46. (Doelling & Galitz) Hamburg 2005

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford: Die Aventiuren des Master F. I. [The Adventures of Master F. I.] (Insel Verlag) Frankfurt a.M. 2006

Der Mann, der Shakespeare erfand. Edward-de-Vere, Earl of Oxford. Frankfurt a. M. 2009; Berlin 2011

William Shakespeare: Die Lieder und Gedichte aus den Stücken. [An Anthology of Poems and Songs from the Plays of William Shakespeare] (Insel) Berlin 2011

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford: Hundert Gedichte. (Insel Verlag) Berlin 2013