Hubert Lampo

Hubert Lampo

Hubert Lampo (born September 1, 1920 in Antwerp , † July 12, 2006 in Essen ) was a Flemish writer.

Life

Hubert Lampo was born the son of a civil servant and a primary school teacher and grew up in the middle-class milieu of Antwerp. He became a teacher and was briefly married to the daughter of the writer Frans Smits. In 1943 he published his first short stories and essays, and two years later his first novel Hélène Defraye appeared . Shortly after the end of the war he met Josette Dirickx, whom he married in 1947. The marriage had two children.

He became editor of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift , wrote for the cultural section of the Volksgazet and was quasi editor-in-chief of the socialist Parool . He also worked on De Faun , the magazine of the circle around the Ghent poet Paul Rogghé . After Parool ceased publication, Lampo became the inspector of the public libraries. In addition to other novels and short stories, he published the essay De roman van een roman (novel about a novel) on Alain-Fournier's novel The Great Meaulnes in 1951 . In the following year De belofte aan Rachel (German: Vow to Rachel ) appeared, which thematizes the horrors of the Second World War. With Terugkeer naar Atlantis (return to Atlantis) his first a located in Antwerp factory, where many should play his books in the aftermath appeared 1953rd

Lampo became editor and presenter of the BRT literary program . In 1965 he separated from his second wife, moved to the Kempen and also stopped working for the Volksgazet and the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift . After a visit to Stonehenge in the summer of 1970, he turned to magical realism . With Johan Daisne , he was one of his main representatives in Belgium and had a decisive influence on the Flemish literary scene. He established his outstanding reputation in this area in 1972 with De Zwanen van Stonehenge , a collection of texts on fantastic literature from the Grail literature to Gustav Meyrink and Franz Kafka to H. Rider Haggard . Hundreds of readings and guest lectures at the universities of Cologne , Metz , Hull and Grenoble are evidence of this.

In 1979 Hubert Lampo was accepted into the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (Royal Academy for Linguistics and Literature). He was a member of this academy for twenty years and became its chairman in 1989. In 1989 he was awarded the III University Stendhal Grenoble , the honorary doctorate . In the same year Joachim Stiller and Terugkeer naar Atlantis appeared in French. In 1992, Lampo gave guest lectures on his own work at the University of Wroclaw , which he processed a little later in an essay entitled De Wortels van de Verbeelding (The Roots of the Imagination). A little later, his last novel De Secret Academie appeared , which contains motifs that Dan Brown later processed in Da Vinci Code.

In addition to his fiction work, Lampo has written many works as a journalist and literary critic, through which he became known in Belgium. He has received numerous prizes, including the 1963 Belgian State Prize for Literature for De Komst van Joachim Stiller , which is awarded every three years.

In the last years of his life, Lampo's work was repeatedly the subject of scientific papers and conferences. Friends of the author founded the Hubert Lampo Genootschap (Hubert Lampo Society) in 2003 . After the death of his third wife Lucia in 2005 and the appearance of Alzheimer's symptoms, he last lived in the De Bijster retirement home in Essen . His urn grave is in the Schoonselhof cemetery in Antwerp.

Works in German translation

• The arrival of Joachim Stiller . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1999. ISBN 3-518-39428-2 . Was announced for the fantastic library Suhrkamp as volume 331 and later again as volume 364, but for unknown reasons it was never published.
• The arrival of Joachim Stiller . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle. June 2009, ISBN 978-3-89812-537-6 . German first edition.
• Arthur and the Grail . Hugendubel, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-88034-276-8
• Pledge to Rachel . Austrian Publishing House, Vienna 1976.

Honors

• 1947: Hélène Defraye awarded the Antwerp Province Prize
• 1954: Arthur Merghelynck Prize of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taal- en letterkunde for Terugkeer naar Atlantis
• 1957: Prize of the Province of Antwerp for De duivel en de maagd
• 1961: Winner in the referendum of the Flemish literary scholars for De komst van Joachim Stiller
• 1963: Belgian State Prize for Literature for De komst van Joachim Stiller
• 1968: Winner of the referendum of Flemish literary scholars for De heks en de archeoloog
• 1972: SFAN Award for the translation of Malpertuis by Jean Ray
• 1976: Prize from the Province of Antwerp for De zwanen van Stonehenge
• 1977: Prize of the Flemish Provinces for De zwanen van Stonehenge
• 1981: Progressefprijs of the Flemish Association for Science Fiction and Fantasticism for the complete works
• 1983: Prize of the Flemish Provinces for the complete work
• 1985: TV award for Arthur
• 1986: Bernheim Prize for the complete work
• 1989: Honorary doctorate from the University of Stendhal Grenoble III
• 1989: Honorary Citizen of Grenoble
• 1990: Medal of Honor from the City of Antwerp
• 1993: Gold Medal of Honor from the Flemish Council
• 1998: Provincial Prize of the Province of Antwerp for literary studies for the complete works
• 2001: Prize of Liberal Humanism
• 2002: Honorary Citizen of Grobbendonk

literature

• Paul DeKeulenaer (Ed.): Hubert Lampo. Vijftig jaar schrijverschap . Vubpress, Brussels 1994, ISBN 90-5487-057-5 (Flemish)

Web links

Extensive text on Hubert Lampo's understanding of literature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Hubert Lampo. Biography (Nieuw). Hubert Lampo Genootschap, accessed on August 25, 2018 (Dutch). 
2. ^ Lampo, Hubert. kantl.be, accessed on August 26, 2018 (Dutch).