Karl Krolow

From 1935 to 1942 he studied Germanic and Romance languages, philosophy and art history at the universities of Göttingen and Breslau.

Krolow began having poems published in Nazi propaganda journals such as the Krakauer Zeitung.

[4] Krolow moved to Hanover in 1952, and in 1956 to Darmstadt, where he lived working as an independent writer until his death.

For his extensive and varied work he has received numerous awards, including 1956 Georg Büchner Prize, the 1965 Great Lower Saxony Art Award, 1975, the Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen, the Grand Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the literature prize Stadtschreiber von Bergen and Rainer Maria Rilke Prize for Poetry in 1976, an honorary doctorate from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, in 1983 the Hessischer Kulturpreis (Hessian Culture Prize), in 1985 the Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste and in 1988 the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis of Bad Homburg.

[7] Krolow is buried in the family grave of his parents and grandparents in the Municipal Cemetery Engesohde [de] (division 13) of his hometown of Hanover.