Harry Kampling

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Harry Kampling (born December 5, 1930 in Berlin ; † May 1, 1991 ) was a German writer and politician ( PDS ) and a former member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

Kampling moved from Berlin to the Ruhr area after the Second World War. In 1953 he was sentenced to one year imprisonment for membership in the FDJ . In 1954 he married and in 1955 the first son was born. After his wife had also been convicted in the Federal Republic of activities for the banned FDJ, the family decided to move to the GDR. Kampling joined the SED. In 1957 the second son was born in Eisleben.

Harry Kampling attended the "Fritz Himpel" metallurgical engineering school in Eisleben from 1959 to 1962 . From 1964 to 1967 he studied at the Institute for Literature “Johannes R. Becher” . Then Kampling worked as a freelance writer. He was an honorary member of the Haus des Buches Kuratorium in Leipzig .

In 1979 his wife Brigitte and both sons were sentenced to imprisonment for subversive agitation and public degradation. In 1981 his wife and one son left for the Federal Republic, in 1988 the other son also went to the West.

In October 1990 Harry Kampling was elected to the Saxon state parliament via the state list for an electoral term until 1994. There he worked on the Committee for Culture and Media, among other things.

Works (selection)

  • The man from the settlement . Halle 1981 (novel)
  • Days like a whole life . Halle 1988 (novel)

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (Ed.): Saxon State Parliament: 1st electoral period, 1990–1994; People's Handbook . NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt , Rheinbreitbach 1991, ISBN 3-87576-265-7 , p. 93. (As of May 1991)

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personal data
SURNAME Kampling, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and politician (PDS), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1991