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Bamm, Peter, 1897-1975

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Personal name headingBamm, Peter, 1897-1975
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Variant(s)Emmrich, Kurt, 1897-1975
Birth date1897-10-20
Death date1975-03-30
Place of birthHochneukirch (Germany)
Place of deathZollikon (Switzerland)
Profession or occupationPhysician Author journalist
Found inHis Die kleine weltlaterne, c1935.
His Die Unsichtbare Flagge, 1982: t.p. (Peter Bamm)
LC data base, 1-21-87 (hdg.: Emmrich, Kurt, 1897-1975; usage: Peter Bamm)
Wikipedia, Apr. 27, 2016 (Peter Bamm (a pen name; his real name was Curt Emmrich; 20 October 1897 in Hochneukirch, now part of Jüchen, Germany-30 March 1975 in Zollikon, Switzerland) was a German writer. Peter Bamm volunteered for military service in World War I, after which he studied medicine and sinology in Munich, Göttingen and Freiburg im Breisgau. As a ship's doctor he travelled the world a great deal before eventually settling in Berlin-Wedding. During World War II he served as a military doctor on the Russian Front, and later described his experiences in the book "Die Unsichtbare Flagge" (The Invisible Flag). After the war he travelled for study purposes between 1952 and 1957 in the Near and Middle East, after which he wrote as a journalist and feature writer for a number of Berlin newspapers. He is buried in the Stöcken Cemetery in Hanover. Peter Bamm published many journalistic pieces, many of them extremely witty and ironic. He also wrote scientific and medical essays, culture-historical travel books and an autobiography.)
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