Elmar Kraushaar

Biography

Kraushaar was born in Niederurff in northern Hesse. He studied from 1971 to 1979 in Berlin at Free University of Berlin. In the 1970s, during his university studies, he joined the gay organisation Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin.

As author Kraushaar began to write on LGBT topics, including some works with Matthias Frings.

Kraushaar has worked as a journalist for Berlin Victory Column and, starting in 1986, for die tageszeitung (taz). In 1990 Kraushaar became a journalist for RIAS TV, then worked at Deutsche Welle. His column Der homosexuelle Mann... has run in taz since 1995.

Works by Kraushaar, in German