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In The Shadow Of Your Wings
''In the Shadow of Your Wings'' (Unter dem Schatten deiner Flügel) is a collection of selected entries from the diary of Jochen Klepper covering the period between April 1932 and 10 December 1942. The book appeared in 1956. The Protestantism, Protestant German Author, writer, journalist and poet of ecclesiastical songs, Jochen Klepper, loses his creative power in the course of the above-mentioned ten years under steadily increasing Nazi Germany, National Socialist reprisals. Klepper is married with the Jew Johanna. Hanni, as Johanna is called, has brought two daughters from her first marriage. Klepper's younger stepdaughter Renate is threatened with deportation after the World War II, war begins. Klepper applies for an exit permit for the young girl to go to Sweden. The author appeals to the Sicherheitsdienst, security services. There his request is turned down. Klepper takes his own life together along the lives of his wife and child in a nondescript Berlin residential house. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jochen Klepper
Jochen Klepper (22 March 1903 – 11 December 1942) was a German writer, poet and journalist. Life Klepper was born in Beuthen, Silesia (now in Poland). Suffering from severe asthma, he was schooled at home by his father, a Lutheran minister, until the age of 14. He then studied at the Gymnasium in Glogau. In 1922, he started studying theology at the University of Erlangen, before transferring to the University of Breslau a year later. He completed his degree and began doctoral studies, but in 1926 he abandoned this, instead working as a church publisher and later a journalist to support his family. He held a sermon as a substitute to his ill father in 1927. He married Johanna Stein from a Jewish family in 1931. They moved to Berlin where he worked for the radio but was dismissed in 1933. Starting in December 1935, he wrote for Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenbergs journal ' (''White Papers''). In December 1940, he was drafted by the German Army — perhaps a bureaucratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |