Peter Hamm (1937-2019)  *82

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was a German poet, author, editor and literary critic. He wrote severai documentaries, including portraits of Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. Hamm was born in Munich in 1937. His mother died in 1940, and he grew up with her parents in Oberschwaben, and in several Catholic boarding schools. He worked on a farm and began as an apprentice to be a bookseller, but broke it up.

His first published poem appeared in the literary magazine Akzente in 1954. In 1956, he was invited to read at the Gruppe 47. From 1959, he travelled to the GDR several times where he met authors such as Peter Huchel and Sarah Kirsch He met Paul Celan in Paris. He studied literature not at universities, but in commucation with authors, including Nelly Sachs with whom he corresponded. From 1964 to 2002, Hamm worked as contributing editor for culture (Kulturredakteur) for the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR).

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