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Alumni Profile: Nora Krug |
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DAAD grant(s): Jahresstipendium, 2003/04 )
Current occupation: Professor of Illustration and Drawing, Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel
Current city of residence: Hamburg, Germany
Nora Krug was born in 1977 in Karlsruhe. At age 19 she left the south German vineyards in order to study stage and graphic design at Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. After completing her Diplom in illustration and documentary film at the Universität der Künste Berlin, a Fulbright and a DAAD scholarship brought her to New York, where she studied at the School  of Visual Arts and earned her MFA in illustration in 2004. Afterwards she worked freelance as an illustrator and animator. Nora’s work has appeared in various publications such as the New York Times, LA Times, Playboy Magazine and Elle Girl as well as on Comedy Central and MTV.
Nora has won a number of prizes and awards, including that of the NY Art Director’s Club in 2004 and the award of the Society of Illustrators in 2005. Nora Krug left New York in the autumn of 2005 in order to assume a new position as professor of illustration and drawing at the Muthesius Academy of Art in Kiel.
 In a conversation with DAAD shortly before her departure, Nora expressed surprise at the high speed of her career, which has brought her back to Germany as a professor only one year after earning her MFA. She emphasized the importance of the early international experiences which she was able to gain through her Fulbright and DAAD grants. She wishes, however, that the stay abroad made possible by the exchange organizations would be understood by the scholarship holders not as a temporary absence from Germany, but as a first step along an internationally oriented way of life.
To find out more about Nora and to view some of her drawings and illustrations, visit www.nora-krug.com
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