Ludwig Thoma

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Ludwig Thoma, by Karl Klimsch

Ludwig Thoma (January 21, 1867, Oberammergau – August 26, 1921, Rottach) was a German author, publisher and editor, who gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of everyday Bavarian life.

After graduation from the Imperial Latin School in Landstuhl (today: Sickingen- Gymnasium Landstuhl), he first studied Forestry in Aschaffenburg, then Law until 1893 in Munich and Erlangen. Subsequently, he settled down as a lawyer, at first in Dachau, later in Munich.

After 1899, he worked for the magazine Simplicissimus and published humorous narrations, comedies, novels and stories. Thoma satirized Bavarian rural and small-town life. His serious peasant novels Andreas Vöst (1905), Der Wittiber (1911), and Der Ruepp (1922), as well as his humorous collections Assessor Karlchen (1900), Lausbubengeschichten [Scoundrel Stories] (1904), and Tante Frieda [Aunt Frieda] (1906), are characterized by authenticity of regional language and life. Thoma's dramas, including Die Medaille [The Medal] (1901), Das Säuglingsheim [The Orphanage] (1913), and especially Moral (1908), reflect elements of folk theater.

In 1907 he married 25-year-old Marietta di Rigardo, who was born in the Philippines. The marriage however did not last, Marietta was soon bored and by 1911 Thoma and Marietta were divorced. In the later years of his life, he wrote nationalistic propaganda agitating against left-wing politicians (e.g. for the newspaper "Miesbacher Anzeiger").^[1]

During World War I he served as a paramedic. In July 1917 he joined the German Fatherland Party.

His best known works are Ein Münchner im Himmel (A Municher in Heaven), the Lausbubengeschichten (Scoundrel Stories) and Jozef Filsers Briefwexel (Jozef Filser's Correspondence). Lausbubengeschichten was made into a movie in 1964, also released in English under the title Tales of a Young Scamp.

Works

Die Lokalbahn (1901)
Lausbubengeschichten (1905)
Tante Frieda (1907)
Moral (1909)
Ein Münchner im Himmel (1911)
Jozef Filsers Briefwexel (1912)
Altaich (1918)
Münchnerinnen (1919)
Der Jagerloisl (1921)

References

↑ Historisches Lexikon Bayerns - Miesbacher Anzeiger

External links

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 71406093 LCCN: n50010147 ISNI: 0000 0001 2138 6852 GND: 118622072 SUDOC: 027648680 BNF: cb120311864 NLA: 35545932 NDL: 00458593 NKC: jn20010420040

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Name	Thoma, Ludwig
Alternative names
Short description	German author, publisher and editor
Date of birth	1867-01-21
Place of birth	Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany
Date of death	1921-08-26
Place of death	Rottach-Egern, Upper Bavaria, Germany

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