Peter Hamecher

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Peter Hamecher (born January 20, 1879 in Lechenich , † 1938 in Berlin-Neukölln ) was a German author and gay activist .

biography

Peter Hamecher attended high schools in Düren , Brühl and Euskirchen . Later he lived temporarily in Cologne and Berlin . He was active as a poet , essayist , author and editor ; In total he published 16 books as an author or editor and in numerous daily newspapers, especially in the Rhineland. He was also an employee of the theater magazine Masken , which was published by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . His publications were strongly influenced by his interest in the works of gay authors, including Oscar Wilde , Stefan George , Herman Bang , Herbert Eulenberg and Wilhelm Schmidtbonn . In 1901 he published Between the Sexes , in which the 22-year-old openly acknowledged his homosexuality .

Around 1900 Peter Hamecher moved to Berlin and came into good contact with the homosexual activists Adolf Brand , Magnus Hirschfeld and their Scientific and Humanitarian Committee (WhK). Until 1929, with 45 articles, he was one of the closest employees of Brand's magazine Der Eigen . There he wrote: "In the storms of my 15 years it was when the image of love for friends with flaming colors appeared before my eyes for the first time and I lost all contact with women as a sex."

In 1903 Der Eigen was censored, drafted for “disseminating lewd writings” and Adolf Brand was sentenced to two months in prison. Hamecher's poem also played a role, but he was not convicted. In 1922 Brand was tried again for the same offense , and Hamecher was questioned as an expert .

In 1938 Hamecher succumbed to the effects of syphilis , from which he had suffered since 1914, in a nursing home in Berlin-Neukölln . “With his contacts to the community of his own and to the WhK, Peter Hamecher was a great and later even prominent pillar of the young homosexual movement. His openly homosexual demeanor impressed many. "

Publications (selection)

  • The novellas of friendship . Sarastro, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-86471-035-3 (new edition).
  • Erwin In het Panhuis, Wolfram Setz (Ed.): Between the sexes. Literary criticism - poetry - prose . Männerschwarm-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-939542-58-2 .
  • Demolding and shape. Gottfried Benn - Stefan George . The Rabenpresse, Berlin 1932.

literature

  • Erwin In het Panhuis: Different from the others. Gays and lesbians in Cologne and the surrounding area 1895–1918. Edited by Center for Gay History . Hermann-Josef Emons-Verlag Cologne 2006. ISBN 978-3-89705-481-3 . P. 38–46 ( PDF P. 135–139)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin In het Panhuis: Different from the others. Gays and lesbians in Cologne and the surrounding area 1895–1918. P. 39 ( PDF p. 136)
  2. ↑ Peter Hamecher. erwin-in-het-panhuis.de, accessed on March 23, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Erwin In het Panhuis: Different from the others. Gays and lesbians in Cologne and the surrounding area 1895–1918. P. 40 ( PDF p. 136)
  4. ↑ Erwin In het Panhuis: Different from the others. Gays and lesbians in Cologne and the surrounding area 1895–1918. P. 42 ( PDF p. 136)
  5. ↑ Erwin In het Panhuis: Different from the others. Gays and lesbians in Cologne and the surrounding area 1895–1918. P. 38 ( PDF p. 135)
  6. ↑ Erwin In het Panhuis: Different from the others. Gays and lesbians in Cologne and the surrounding area 1895–1918. P. 46 ( PDF p. 139)
personal data
SURNAME Hamecher, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Lechenich
DATE OF DEATH 1938
Place of death Berlin-Neukölln