Visitors to the Helgoland Museum can now experience a very special edition of our AIO audio station: Excerpts from James Krüss’s stories can be heard in front of the printed front panel, showing the familiar cover of the book „Mein Urgroßvater und ich“ (My Great Grandfather and I).
The North Sea island was his childhood home, where he lived with his parents and siblings. At the age of 13, he experienced the war, and at 16, Krüss and the island’s population were forced to leave Heligoland. But the island never left him—for example, he founded the magazine “Helgoland,” and in 1956 he published his first children’s book, “Der Leuchtturm auf den Hummerklippen” (The Lighthouse on the Lobster Cliffs).
Ten years later, James Krüss left Germany and bought a house on Gran Canaria where he lived until his death in 1997. He was buried at sea near Heligoland. The Helgoland Museum has honored him with an exhibition on his life and work.
Copyright: Museum Helgoland
