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{{Short description|Australian journalist}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=January 2012}}
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| subject = [[Rock music]], popular culture
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| notableworks = ''Songwriters Speak''
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'''Debbie Kruger''' (born 14 August 1962{{cn|date=July 2023}}) is an Australian [[music journalism|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.<ref name="Songwriters">{{cite book|title=Songwriters speak : conversations about creating music|last=Kruger |first=Debbie|publisher=Limelight Press|date=1 August 2005|location=[[Balmain, New South Wales|Balmain]], N.S.W.|isbn=0-9757080-3-1}}</ref><ref name="NLA">{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3420858|title=Songwriters speak : conversations about creating music|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=20 March 2009}}</ref><ref name="McFadyen">{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/reviews/songwriters-speak/2005/09/08/1125772645218.html|title=Songwriter's speak - Reviews - Books - Entertainment|work=[[The Age]]|publisher=[[Fairfax Media]]|last=McFadyen|first=Warwick|date=10 September 2005|access-date=20 March 2009}}</ref> Kruger was the Sydney correspondent for weekly entertainment newspaper, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', for three years with the [[moniker]] of '''krug'''.<ref name="Tingle">{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaman.com.au/interviews/kruger.html|title=Interview - Debbie Kruger|publisher=Media Man Australia|last=Tingle|first=Greg|date=12 July 2003|access-date=20 March 2009}}</ref><ref name="Variety">{{cite web|url=http://www.debbiekruger.com/writer/variety.html|title=Debbie Kruger - ''Variety'' Reporter|publisher=Debbie Kruger|last=Kruger|first=Debbie|access-date=21 March 2009}}</ref> She works in [[Public Relations|public relations]] with her company Kruger PRofiles and in radio broadcasting, she has also worked as Manager of Communications for [[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA).<ref name="Tingle"/>

==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.<ref name="AJN2007">{{cite news|url=http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=4619 |title=Lisa Kruger Obituary (December 13, 2007) |work=The Australian Jewish News |last=Kruger |first=Debbie |author2=Paula Kruger |publisher=ajn.com.au |date=13 December 2007 |access-date=20 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080815002629/http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=4619 |archive-date=15 August 2008 }}</ref> She was brought up with younger sister Paula in the [[Judaism|Jewish faith]] as members of the North Shore Synagogue.<ref name="AJN2007"/> 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, New South Wales|Bathurst]] in 1981.<ref name="Tingle"/> She completed tertiary studies with a Bachelor of Arts, followed by Master of Arts in Theatre Studies, at the [[University of New South Wales]].<ref name="Tingle"/> 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,<ref name="Tingle"/> she became a [[freelance]] [[journalism|journalist]] in 1986,<ref name="Tingle"/> writing on pop-culture, including Music, Film & Television, Arts & Theatre, Travel, and Lifestyle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.debbiekruger.com/writer/freelance.html|title=Debbie Kruger - Freelance Writing|publisher=Debbie Kruger|last=Kruger|first=Debbie|access-date=21 March 2009}}</ref> Kruger was a staff writer for the weekly entertainment newspaper, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'',<ref name="Tingle"/> 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.<ref name="Variety"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.debbiekruger.com/writer.html|title=Debbie Kruger - Writer|publisher=Debbie Kruger|last=Kruger|first=Debbie|access-date=21 March 2009}}</ref> While writing for ''Variety'' her reviews used Krug as her [[moniker]].<ref name="Variety"/>

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, New South Wales|Byron Bay]] from 1993 and provided a weekly radio show on community radio station [[Bay FM (Byron Bay)|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.<ref name="Tingle"/> She orchestrated the publicity for APRA's 75th anniversary celebrations on 28 May 2001 including the showcasing of [[APRA Top 30 Australian songs|APRA's Ten best Australian songs]] at the [[APRA Awards (Australia)|APRA Awards]],<ref name="APRA10">{{cite web |url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/History/2001Top10Songs.aspx |title=The final list: APRA'S Ten best Australian Songs |last=Culnane |first=Paul |publisher=[[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) |date=28 May 2001 |access-date=6 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611003021/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/History/2001Top10Songs.aspx |archive-date=11 June 2010 }}</ref> 20 songs from the Top 30 had been announced by Kruger four weeks earlier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.debbiekruger.com/pdfs/aprathirty.pdf |last=Kruger |first=Debbie |title=The songs that resonate through the years |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) |date=2 May 2001 |access-date=2 November 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517070044/http://www.debbiekruger.com/pdfs/aprathirty.pdf |archive-date=17 May 2008 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Songwriters"/><ref name="NLA"/> As of March 2009, Kruger was living in Byron Bay, broadcasting ''Debbie Does Breakfast'' on Bay FM 99.9,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bayfm.org/index.php/thursday|title=Thursday|publisher=Bay FM - 99.9FM|access-date=20 March 2009|archive-date=8 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090308084337/http://www.bayfm.org/index.php/thursday|url-status=dead}}</ref> and running Kruger PRofiles.

==Personal life==
Kruger has a younger sister, Paula.<ref name="AJN2007"/> Their father, Lou Kruger, was born in England, relocated to Australia, retired in 1990 and died on 17 March 2004.<ref name="AJN2007"/> Their mother, Lisa ''née'' Berkowitz, was born in Romania in 1940, grew up in a United States foster home, relocated to Australia in 1958 where she met and married Lou in 1959.<ref name="AJN2007"/> Lisa had a love of painting and travelling, and died in Australia on 9 November 2007.<ref name="AJN2007"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://notices.smh.com.au/death/37373/notice.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712101253/http://notices.smh.com.au/death/37373/notice.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 July 2012 |title=Lisa Kruger Death Notice |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |publisher=Fairfax Media |date=12 November 2007 |access-date=21 March 2009 }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|title=Songwriters speak : conversations about creating music|last=Kruger|first=Debbie|publisher=Limelight Press|date=1 August 2005|location=Balmain, N.S.W.|isbn=0-9757080-3-1}}

==References==
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==External links==
{{official website|http://www.debbiekruger.com/}}

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