Bruno Vogel (29 September 1898 – 5 April 1987) was a German pacifist and writer.

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Bruno Vogel was born on 29 September 1898 in Leipzig.Raimund Wolfert, 'Get to Know Bruno Vogel', in '' The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide'', Jan-Feb 2010, pp. 29-31 He spent his childhood in

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. In 1916, he fought in the First World War, first on the border of the

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, then in the Baltic, and in Flanders by 1917. In 1922, he founded the gay group Gemeinschaft Wir ("We the Community") under the aegis of Magnus Hirschfeld. It was the local chapter in Leipzig of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, one of the largest gay groups in Germany from 1896 to 1933.glbtq
In the mid-20s, after his parents put him out on the streets for being gay, he moved to Berlin, and he founded the

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with

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. In 1928, he became a member of the Social Democratic Party, but soon left. In 1938, he moved to Cape Town, South Africa with

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. From 1942 to 1944, he worked in the

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. Later, he wrote for ''Forward'', ''Common Sense'' and ''

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''. In 1953, he moved to London, from where he was involved in the anti- apartheid movement. He died on 5 April 1987 in London. His novel ''Alf'' from 1929 was first translated into English in 1992. In August 2012 someone put Bruno Vogel's unpublished works, such as the novel ''Mashango'' and the short stories he had collected under the title ''Slegs vir Blankes'' ("Only for Whites"), on the Internet anonymously.

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*''Es lebe der Krieg!'' ("Long Live War!")

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*''Ein Gulasch und andere Skizzen'' ("A Goulash and other Sketches") (1928) *''Alf'' (1929) nglish translation by Samuel B. Johnson, GMP Publishers Ltd., 1992*''Mashango'' *''Slegs vir Blankes'' ("Only for Whites")

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1898 births 1987 deaths South African military personnel German pacifists German gay writers German LGBT rights activists Writers from Leipzig German emigrants to South Africa 20th-century German LGBT people {{Apartheid-sa-stub

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