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Martin Kämpchen
German author, translator, journalist and social worker
Martin Kämpchen | |
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| Born | () 9 December (age&#;76) Boppard |
| Occupation | Author, translator, journalist, social worker |
| Nationality | German |
Martin Kämpchen (born 9 December ) is an author, translator, journalist and social worker.
Early life
[edit]He studied the German language and literature in Vienna and French in Paris. He earned his first doctorate in Vienna[1] He worked for three years as a German teacher at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture at Kolkata. He secured his second Ph D from Visva Bharati University. It was a dissertation on comparative religious study of Sri Ramakrishna, the 19th century Indian mystic-saint and Saint Francis of Assisi, the th century Italian saint. That brought him to Santiniketan in He took an instant liking to the place and has never since left it for a long period at a stretch.[2][3]
At Santiniketan
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Introduction
Looking Back on 45 Years in India
Did I ever imagine that I would remain in this country for forty-five years? – Normal expectations would insist that there was someone in my ancestry who was Indian or who spent a lifetime in India and inspired me to follow a similar course. But this is not true. My parents, born in and , where the unlikeliest persons to have links with India. Both my mother and father received a good education, my father ended his career as a College principal. But the dominant reality in their lives were the two World Wars and the struggle to build an existence after the second war. India was far off their mental map.
Why was I so different? Wanting to leave my small town in the Rhine Valley, restlessly seeking to accomplish things which I had not seen others doing before me? … I wonder even today… As a sixteen-year old, I went to the USA on a one-year scholarship. Later, I opted to become a Conscientious Objector refusing military service in G
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The Guyanese poet Martin Carter () was one of the foremost Caribbean writers of the 20th century. Twice imprisoned bygd the colonial government of British Guiana during the Emergency in the s, he became a minister in Guyana’s first independent government during the 60s, representing his country at the United Nations, but resigned in disillusionment after three years to live ‘simply as a poet, remaining with the people’. He was one of the first Caribbean poets to write about slavery, Amerindian history and Indian Indentureship in relation to contemporary concerns. Wise, angry and hopeful, Carter’s poetry voices a life lived in times of public and private crisis.
Martin Carter’s poetry was first published in Britain in by the leftwing publishing house Lawrence & Wishart when publication in colonial British Guiana wasn’t possible, and later by New Beacon Books. He appeared in E.A. Markham’s seminal anthology Hinterland (Bloodaxe, ) as