Klaus Sasse
Klaus Sasse (born February 18, 1921 in Munster , † June 7, 2003 in Hamburg ) was a German officer in the Wehrmacht and senior academic adviser at the Romance Department at the University of Hamburg .
Life
Sasse spent his school days in Hamburg, where he graduated from high school in 1939 . Sasse was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940 during the Second World War , where he worked in the intelligence service. On April 8, 1945, he became a lieutenant in Königsberg in captivity . His 179 photographs from the five-year Soviet prisoner-of-war imprisonment camp in Yelabuga and others are remarkable . They were made with the Minox Riga 38 mini camera , for which he owned five films , and were smuggled out of the camps by prisoners. For years Sasse kept his authorship secret because he feared that the Soviet secret service could do something against him. The photographer was only known as "the Königsberger" or "Pfennig".
After returning home, he studied Romance and English and passed the 2nd state examination in 1959, after which he worked as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg. Sasse received his doctorate in 1967 and then worked until his retirement in 1986 as a senior scientific adviser at the Romance Department at the University of Hamburg. The book Pictures from Russian Prisoners of War was written from 1997 to 1998. In 1999 the book served as a companion book to the exhibition “Do you know Jelabuga?” At the Osnabrück Cultural History Museum , which was also shown in the Air Force Museum in Berlin-Gatow in 2000 . Rainer Behring from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote about the book: “Pictures from Russian prisoners of war” also offers Sasse's text, a collage of impressions that are loosely lined up along the chronology of an odyssey that went through various camps and workplaces from the capture in Königsberg on April 9, 1945 until he returned home to the Federal Republic on the first day of 1950. "
literature
- 1967: The discovery of the courtisane vertueuse in 18th [eighteenth] century French literature, Rétif de LaBretonne and its predecessors, Roman. Seminar d. Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg,
- 1999: Pictures from Russian captivity , Waxmann Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89325-814-7 ;
- 2007: 2nd revised edition, ISBN 978-3-8309-1802-8 excerpts from Googlebooks
Web links
- Author information on the Waxmann Verlag website
- Klaus Sasse on perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photos in the Air Force Museum show the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp in Yelabuga is unknown , Berliner Zeitung, December 2, 2000.
- ↑ Review: Non-fiction book stone knocking and boredom - photos of a German lieutenant in Soviet captivity in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 26, 2000, No. 198, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sasse, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer in the Wehrmacht, senior scientific advisor at the Romance Department at the University of Hamburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 2003 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |