The Croupier’s Wife
Published by Diogenes as Die Frau des Croupiers
Original Title: Die Frau des Croupiers
Otto Jägersberg’s diverse prose is both delightfully simple and appealingly complex. Written with a precision that can be both poetic and extremely funny. Short and very short stories full of wayward humour. Calendar stories, sketches of memories from the German past, short stories, incidents from the lives of writers, thinkers and criminals, micro essays, anecdotes, observations.
Contemporary Literature
240 pages
2016

978-3-257-06972-3
Otto
Jägersberg

Otto Jägersberg, born in Hiltrup (Westphalia) in 1942, worked as a book trader, antiquarian and printer in Berlin, Zurich and Stierstadt. Jägersberg is a freelance writer and filmmaker and lives in Baden-Baden.

Photo: © Margrit Müller