Alois Johannes Lippl

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Alois Johannes Lippl (born June 21, 1903 in Munich ; † October 8, 1957 in Graefelfing ) was a Bavarian director , director , film and radio play author .

Life

Alois Johannes Lippl was the son of Lower Bavarian parents. Before he was 20 years old, he had already written his first play, Dance of Death. In the twenties he began his practical theater work after completing his university studies with the so-called game groups of the youth movements of that time. Until 1935 he was head of the radio play department of the Munich broadcasting company. He then worked as a screenwriter as well as a theater and film director, where he dubbed English-language sound films for the first time with Karl-Heinz Stroux around 1930 .

Letter to the American military government regarding travel permission for Lilo Ramdohr , July 1948. Lippl wrote this letter in the position of artistic director of the Staatsschauspiel, which was actually in his area of ​​responsibility as head of the youth ring .

After the Second World War , Alois Lippl was initially editor-in-chief of the Munich Catholic Church newspaper and at Echo der Woche . In July 1947 he was involved with Gerhard Fauth and Harry Schulze-Wilde in the organization of the First International Youth Rally in 1947, which was supported by the US authorities and lasted several days. Speakers such as André Gide , Joseph Rovan and Ignazio Silone spoke. From 1946 to 1947 Lippl was chairman of the state youth committee and then president of the Bavarian youth ring founded in 1947 . From May 1948 he was also appointed director of the Bavarian State Theater as the successor to Paul Verhoeven and remained so until August 1953, when his contract was no longer renewed by the Minister of Education, Josef Schwalber . Besides Lippl has always been as a writer and director for radio plays and television productions often popularly-Bavarian and heimatbezogenem content such as Bauer Passion of Richard Billinger (1955), active. He also became President of the Bavarian Broadcasting Council , and on January 25, 1948, he received the first license for Bavarian Broadcasting from the American military government . He stayed in this position until he died of a sudden heart attack in his house in Graefelfing in 1957.

Alois Johannes Lippl was married to Barbara Lippl, née Hermann, and founded the artist family Lippl . He was the father of four children, including Andreas Lippl and Martin Lippl .

Honors (selection)

In his former place of residence Graefelfing - where his grave is also - a street is named after him, and in Munich- Sendling the Alois-Johannes-Lippl-Weg. The primary school in Thyrnau in the Bavarian Forest bears his name.

The Lippl House

1934 commissioned Lippl the Munich architect Sep Ruf with the design of a residential building in the Geiger Road 6. The house was completed in 1937 and has for buildings in the time of National Socialism atypical modern asymmetrical facade with openings of different sizes and a loggia with atrium and a small terrace on . Lippl lived in the house until his death. The building is today (2008) in its original state.

Works

Radio plays

  • Dance of death
  • The Pentecost Organ
  • The Holledauer mold
  • The angel with the strings
  • The castle on the Danube
  • Da Hias and s' Linerl
  • The Passau wolf
  • The bell war
  • The washer of the apostles
  • The Monopteros. A Munich picture arch through all possible years and seasons, days and hours.

script

Director

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Bavaria . Munich 2000. p. 113.


personal data
SURNAME Lippl, Alois Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian artistic director, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1957
Place of death Graefelfing