Günter Karl Bose, born in 1951 in Debstedt, Geestland, studied German literature and Political science in Freiburg / Breisgau. He was a publisher in Berlin (Brinkmann & Bose) from 1980 to 1995 and Professor of Typography and Head of the Institute of Book Art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 1993 to 2018. He has been working as a designer since the early 1980s.

His graphic works have been shown in exhibitions in Germany and abroad and can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Kunstbibliothek Berlin, the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, the Folkwang Museum Essen and the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt a. M. He has written numerous media and cultural studies.

His most recent book of essays are Elementum. Über Typografie, Bücher und Buchstaben, .. als geborener Märker und Kind vom Lande”. Richard Dehmel, Kremmen und die Mark [1863-1920], Der Stadtpark Schöneberg as well as Franz Kafka im Ostseebad Müritz [1923].