Friedo Lampe Author

Friedo Lampe (1899–1945) was born in Bremen. A disabled gay German writer, he
survived the Third Reich only to be shot by the Red Army six days before the end of
the Second World War. He worked as a librarian in Hamburg before moving to Berlin
to take a job with a publishing house. He wrote two novels, poetry and some short
stories. His work has been translated into a number of languages, and his collected
letters were published in 2018. At the Edge of the Night (Am Rande der Nacht) was
his first book.