John Hampson (novelist)
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John Frederick Norman Hampson Simpson was an English novelist writing as John Hampson. Best known for his 1931 novel Saturday Night at the Greyhound, he was a member of a Birmingham Group of working-c
Portrait of John Hampson by Howard Coster
Therese Giehse
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Therese Giehse, born Therese Gift, was a German actress. Born in Munich to German-Jewish parents, she first appeared on the stage in 1920. She became a major star on stage, in films, and in political
John Hampson (novelist)
…Hampson became a committed anti-Nazi after a visit to Berlin in 1933, and in 1936 at the suggestion of W. H. Auden Hampson married the German actress Therese Giehse, so that she could obtain a British passport and escape from Nazi Germany. (After World War II she returned to Germany unaccompanied by him and survived…
Therese Giehse in 1919