1. Peter Hamm was a German poet, author, journalist, editor, and literary critic.
19 Facts About Peter Hamm
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Peter Hamm wrote several documentaries, including ones about Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke.
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Peter Hamm wrote for the German weekly newspapers Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, among others.
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From 1964 to 2002, Hamm worked as contributing editor for culture for the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk.
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Peter Hamm was a jury member of literary prizes, and critic for a regular literary club of the Swiss television company Schweizer Fernsehen.
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Peter Hamm's mother died in 1940, and he grew up with her parents in Weingarten, Oberschwaben, and in several Catholic boarding schools.
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Peter Hamm worked on a farm and began as an apprentice to be a bookseller, but did not complete it.
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Peter Hamm's first published poems appeared in the literary magazine Akzente in 1954 when he was age 17 and in 1956 he was invited to read at the Gruppe 47.
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Peter Hamm studied literature not at universities, but by means of direct communication with authors, including Nelly Sachs, with whom he corresponded.
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Peter Hamm worked for the publisher Neske Verlag from 1959 to 1960.
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Peter Hamm then was a freelance writer and journalist, publishing literary and music criticism in Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, among others.
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From 1964 to 2002, Peter Hamm worked as Kulturredakteur for the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
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Peter Hamm wrote several television documentaries, including portraits of Ingeborg Bachmann, Heinrich Boll, Peter Handke and Martin Walser.
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Peter Hamm was a member of the Deutsche Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung from 1991, serving as its vice president, and of the Bayerische Akademie der Schonen Kunste from 1996.
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Peter Hamm was a member of the German section of the Pen Zentrum.
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Peter Hamm was a jury member of the Petrarca-Preis, the Peter Huchel Prize and of the monthly Preis der SWR-Bestenliste, among others.
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Peter Hamm belonged to the critics team of the monthly Literaturclub of the Schweizer Fernsehen from 1990 to 2014.
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Peter Hamm received the Grimme-Preis in 1976 for Die verbotene Schonheit, a film about Hans Werner Henze.
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Since the 1970s, Peter Hamm had been the partner of Marianne Koch.