Peter Martin Lampel

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Peter Martin Lampel (born May 15, 1894 as Joachim Friedrich Martin Lampel in Schönborn, Liegnitz , † February 22, 1965 in Hamburg ) was a German playwright , storyteller and painter .

Life

Tombstone Peter Martin Lampel ,
Ohlsdorf Cemetery

Lampel grew up in a Protestant rectory. He graduated from high school in 1914 and volunteered for the war. In 1915 he briefly studied theology in Breslau . In the further course of the First World War he became an air officer. After the end of the war he took part in a volunteer corps in the fighting in the Baltic States .

In 1920 he began to study political science and law in Berlin and later in Munich . At the same time he trained as a painter . In 1922 he joined the NSDAP and the SA . He then worked as a teacher , youth worker and journalist . In December 1928, his play Revolte im Erziehungshaus , which was premiered by the left-wing group of young actors in the Berlin Thalia Theater, was a sensational success. From 1930 he was a member of the PEN and from 1931 a member of the German Colonial Pathfinder Association (DKPB) until the association was incorporated into the Hitler Youth in 1933.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, his works (books and pictures) were banned. Nonetheless, Lampel remained a member of the SA.

After problems because of his homosexuality and brief arrest in 1936, he emigrated to Switzerland and later to the Dutch East Indies . From 1937 to 1939 he had several exhibitions of his works there and in Australia. In 1939 he went to the USA where he made his way as a laborer, teacher and journalist. As a painter, he was able to send exhibitions in Buffalo and New York . In 1949 he returned to Germany. He lived in Hamburg as a freelance writer. In 1950 he became a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg . In 1961 he received the Kogge Literature Prize .

Until his death, Lampel was an honorary knight of the Nerother Wandervogel . He was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square BF 66 (at the Seehof entrance ).

Works

Lampel began as a writer to come to terms with his war and post-war experiences: Army zeppelins under attack (1917) , bombers (1918) . In 1920 his novel How Leutnant Juergens Position Searched (subtitle: A film novel from the Spartakustage ) was published by Langenscheidt in Berlin.

He described his experiences in child welfare in 1928 in the report series Junge in Not and processed them in the same year in the play Revolte im Erziehungshaus , which was filmed by Georg Asagaroff in 1930. His drama Pennäler (1929) dealt with the topics of male prostitution and professional bans for teachers because of their homosexuality; Lampel, who was active in the Scientific and Humanitarian Committee , represented the demands of the homosexual movement at the time for the abolition of Section 175 of the Criminal Code . The satirical play Poison Gas over Berlin depicted putsch plans of the Reichswehr in coded form. The play was rehearsed in the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , but then banned. Michail Dubson filmed it in 1929 under the title Poison Gas .

The novel Betrayed Boys (1929) is about the Küstriner putsch of the Black Reichswehr . Lampel co-wrote the Georg Wilhelm Pabst films Western Front 1918 (1930) and Kameradschaft (1931) with Ladislaus Vajda .

In 1932 Lampel published the report volume Packt an! Comrades! on behalf of the German Colonial Pathfinder Association at Günther Wolff Verlag in Plauen. His autobiography, begun in 1939, in which he also dealt self-critically with his past in the Freikorps, remained unfinished.

After the war there was Fight Without Order (1952), a novel about Billy the Kid , and the play Three Sons (1957). His play Kampf um Helgoland was premiered on March 5, 1952 in the Theater der Freund , Berlin under the direction of Hans Rodenberg .

In the German Democratic Republic , Lampel's Wie Leutnant Juergens position sought was placed on the list of literature to be segregated.

literature

  • Rolf Badenhausen :  Lampel, Peter Martin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 460 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ulrich Baron: “Peter Martin Lampel. Comments on an unsuccessful homecoming ”, in: Forum Homosexualität und Literatur , No. 6 (1989), pp. 73–92.
  • Beatrice & Saul Bastomsky: Peter Martin Lampel and Exile . London 1991.
  • Rolf Italiaander (Ed.): Peter Martin Lampel . Hamburg 1964.
  • Günter Rinke: Social radicalism and alliance utopia. The case of Peter Martin Lampel . Frankfurt / M. 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 350.
  2. ↑ Schrölkamp, ​​Stephan (1988) Documentation: German Scout Movement in the Weimar Republic . Self-published. ISBN 3-507-38038-2
  3. ↑ Celebrity Graves
  4. ↑ Wolf Borchers: Male homosexuality in the drama of the Weimar Republic . Dissertation, University of Cologne 2001. p. 380
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-l.html
personal data
SURNAME Lampel, Peter Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lampel, Joachim Friedrich Martin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright, storyteller and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönborn, Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1965
Place of death Hamburg