Christian Kampmann
Christian Peter Georg Kampmann was a Danish writer and journalist who was born in Hellerup. His novels are mainly about the middle and upper classes in the post war time and until the 1980s. The books are mainly about people who has some problems finding their place in the world and their feelings, e.g. homosexuality. Kampmann was bisexual himself, and was married to piano player Therese Herman Koppel for many years and had two children.
Kampmann was involved in the Danish Gay Liberation Front from 1975 and he was editor of the journal Sexual Policy from 1975 to 1978. In 1988, he was killed at his beach house on Læsø by his cohabitant and lover, Danish author Jens Michael Schau. The murder was profiled in Jonas Poher Rasmussen's 2015 film What He Did .
Books
Blandt venner, Short story collectionAl den snak om lykke, his first novelLy, Short story collectionSammen, novelUden navn, novelNærved og næsten, novelVi elsker mere, Short story collectionPinde til en skønskrivers ligkiste En tid alene, novelFamilien Gregersen-sagaen:- * Visse hensyn
- * Faste forhold
- * Rene linjer
- * Andre måder Fornemmelser, trilogy:
- * Fornemmelser
- * Videre trods alt
- * I glimt Skilles og mødes, novel released after his death