Christian Kampmann

Who was Christian Kampmann?

Christian Peter Georg Kampmann was a Danish writer and journalist. His novels are mainly about the middle and upper classes in the post war time and up 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 homosexual himself, although he was married to Therese Herman Koppel for many years and had two children. In 1988, he was killed at his beach house on Læsø by his colleague and lover Jens Michael Schau.