Ferdinand Feldigl

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Ferdinand Feldigl (born April 5, 1861 in Landsberg am Lech , † April 9, 1928 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a German writer and musician. He rediscovered lost manuscripts from the Oberammergau Passion Play . Streets in Oberammergau and Fürstenfeldbruck as well as a primary school in Jachenau are named after Ferdinand Feldigl .

Life

Ferdinand Feldigl was a son of the Landsberg town clerk Johann Georg Feldigl and a grandson of the surgeon Georg Feldigl. His mother Magdalena, b. Miller, was a sister of Ferdinand Miller , after whom Ferdinand Feldigl was probably named. She died when the son was ten years old. Ferdinand Feldigl was trained as a teacher in Landsberg and Freising and had his first positions in Reischach near Altötting and in Bad Aibling . In 1883 he was permanently employed and became a teacher in Jachenau. There he married Maria Oswald. The marriage resulted in five children, three of whom were born in Jachenau before Feldigl was transferred to Oberammergau. A grandson was the conductor and choir director Hans Feldigl .

Feldigl was a teacher in Jachenau from 1882 to 1891, then in Oberammergau until 1902, then in Fürstenfeldbruck. At the age of 59, he retired due to incapacity. He died of stomach cancer a few years later in the Schwalber House in Fürstenfeldbruck and was buried in the Brucker Friedhof, today's old Fürstenfeldbruck cemetery. The grave has been preserved.

Literary activity

Feldigl felt called to be a poet and composer and used to write down his inspirations immediately, even if they came to his mind during school lessons. This led to more frequent advertisements with the school board, which he alluded to in his novel Icarus . In addition to this novel, he also wrote Ein deutscher Meister. Ore caster Ferdinand von Miller as well as The way over the moor , stories for the silent hearth and Maria Magdalena . He also wrote the texts for Lothar Meggendorfer's drawing pictures under the title Prinz Liliput and Meggendorfer's picture book New Times Tables and published texts in numerous magazines, club chronicles, etc. He also worked as an editor. So he published the four-volume collection Fromm 'und Cheerful with children's and folk rhymes, folk sayings and folk games .

Were not disclosed rich and poor , the Castellan of Herzogstand , the Pedagogical confessions and an unfinished biography of the composer of the Oberammergau Passion music Rochus Dedler .

Feldigl's compositions are largely forgotten, except for the song von der Jachenau. The most extensive composition was The Pious Sisters of St. Marie , premiered in 1912 by the Bruck male choir.

Feldigl and the Oberammergau Festival

At the Oberammergau Festival in 1900, Feldigl took over the musical direction and conducted the passion music in all performances. He also wrote several tourist guides to the place, the first in 1900, and more in 1910 and 1922. He wrote the preface to a picture by Vinzenz Marschall about the festival.

In 1920 Feldigl rediscovered the Passion text from 1811, which was believed to have been lost, on his sickbed. This text by Othmar Weis ended up in the Bruck parish library. Feldigl reconstructed the path of the manuscript from Weis 'estate to the library and discovered another original Weis' manuscript from 1815. He published his discoveries in the Oberammergauer Bilder und Gestalten work . A complete history of the Passion texts was published under the title Monuments of the Oberammergau Passion Literature.

Feldigl in Fürstenfeldbruck

Feldigl founded a literary group in Fürstenfeldbruck and headed the men's choir. He wrote several plays - Rauhnacht , Bildstöckl , Der Wildauf , Die Steinlechner-Triplets, etc. - that were used on the stage by the journeyman's association and the literary community. The Jungbräu cellar was used for this.

The market also asked Feldigl to create a chronicle of the First World War . The ten folders that he put together are now in the Fürstenfeldbruck city archive.

Web links

Wikisource: Ferdinand Feldigl  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hartmut Passauer: Johann Feldigl , Association for Computer Genealogy ; As of December 28, 2006. Entry based on information from Max Miller, created around 1943, presented by the Kester Haeusler Foundation, Fürstenfeldbruck, in 2004.
  2. ↑ a b Robert Weinzierl: Ferdinand Feldigl. Historical association for the city and the district of Fürstenfeldbruck, accessed on January 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ A literary monument set for his homeland , in: Merkur-online.de
  4. ↑ The Song of Jachenau (PDF; 65 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Feldigl, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, musician and poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg am Lech
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1928
Place of death Fürstenfeldbruck