Otto Peter Leck Fischer (March 26, 1904 – June 17, 1956) was a

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writer and playwright. He was the brother of the politician

Viggo Kampmann Olfert Viggo Fischer Kampmann (; 21 July 1910 – 3 June 1976) was a Danish politician who served as the leader of the Danish Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Denmark from 1960 to 1962. He formed his first cabinet just prior to the 1960 el ...

. Fischer was a socially conscious writer that portrayed the modern urban man with a sad, gray everyday life. His literary style was cool and matter-of-fact. Fischer was read and appreciated in his day, but he has since been forgotten (except in literary-history circles), perhaps because he was so closely associated with the time in which he lived and which he portrayed. Fischer made a name for himself in many genres: novels, films, and radio drama. He is buried at

Mariebjerg Cemetery Mariebjerg Cemetery ( Danish: ''Mariebjerg Kirkegård'') is located in Gentofte north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was laid out between 1926 and 1933 to the design of the landscape architect Gudmund Nyeland Brandt and is considered an important exam ...

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. Leck Fischer's plays are held in the theater collection at the Royal Library.

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Leck Fischer
at Gravsted.dk

at Dansk Forfatterleksikon *
Leck Fischer
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fischer, Leck 1904 births 1956 deaths Danish male novelists 20th-century Danish dramatists and playwrights Danish male screenwriters Writers from Copenhagen