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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Songwriters speak : conversations about creating music )〕 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).〔 ==Biography== 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.〔 Moving back to Sydney in mid-1992, Kruger established a national public relations business, Kruger PRofiles, whose clients included the Brisbane Biennial International Music Festival and the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF). Kruger based herself in Byron Bay from 1993 and provided a weekly radio show on community radio station Bay FM 99.9 called ''Debbie Does Breakfast''. She spent a year in Los Angeles in 1998–1999 before moving back to Byron Bay in mid-1999 as PR Manager for Sunspirit Aromatherapy. Kruger returned to Sydney and became Manager of Communications and Public Affairs with the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) during 2000–2003.〔 She orchestrated the publicity for APRA's 75th anniversary celebrations on 28 May 2001 including the showcasing of APRA's Ten best Australian songs at the APRA Awards, 20 songs from the Top 30 had been announced by Kruger four weeks earlier. While involved with this project, Kruger met and interviewed many of Australia's finest songwriters and decided to write a book; she left APRA in 2003, to concentrate on her writing. On 1 August 2005, Kruger published, ''Songwriters speak : conversations about creating music'', which contains interviews with 45 Australian and New Zealand songwriters about their craft.〔〔 As of March 2009, Kruger was living in Byron Bay, broadcasting ''Debbie Does Breakfast'' on Bay FM 99.9,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thursday )〕 and running Kruger PRofiles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Debbie Kruger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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