Joseph Maria Lutz

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Joseph Maria Lutz (born May 5, 1893 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , † August 30, 1972 in Munich ) was a German writer .

Life

Joseph Maria Lutz was born as the son of the Pfaffenhofen school councilor Joseph Lutz. Due to a war injury, he was unable to practice the profession he had learned as a qualified farmer and began to write novels , poems , novellas and cheerful short stories .

His best-known play Der Brandner Kaspar looks into paradise is based on a short story by Franz von Kobell and was premiered in Dresden in 1934 . Since then it has been played on over a hundred stages. In 1938 Lutz moved to Munich.

In 1946, Joseph Maria Lutz wrote a new version of the Bavarian hymn ("God with you, you Land of Bavaria ..."), which Prime Minister Goppel used as valid (later Franz Josef Strauss reversed this). His collection Die Münchner Volkssänger - A Memento of the Good Old Times , published in 1956, is still considered a standard work today.

Joseph Maria Lutz died on August 30, 1972 in Munich. He is buried in the forest cemetery there.

Joseph Maria Lutz had been a member of the beating Corps Donaria in Freising since 1911 .

The poet's study, his library and memorabilia can be viewed in the Joseph Maria Lutz Museum in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, which is named after him .

Awards

In 1961 Lutz was the first winner of the Bavarian Poet Taler from the Munich Tower Writer (South German Association of Literature). In 1968 he was made honorary citizenship of the city of Pfaffenhofen. In addition, one of the primary schools there , where his father taught, is named after him.

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Books

  • Young Worlds (1920)
  • Sanctuary (1921)
  • The idolatry of Goethe (1925)
  • Laughing Everyday Life (1930)
  • Bayerisch , Piper Verlag, Munich 1932, Volume III of the series: What is not in the dictionary
  • The Kumpf (1933)
  • Owls on the way (1936)
  • In the background the women's towers (1940)
  • The Supernatural Woman (1940)
  • The immortal spring (1940)
  • Laughing Everyday Life (1942)
  • The Sky Blue Window (1948)
  • Our Father (1948)
  • The tribulation to the defiance
  • Familiar Land, Familiar People (1956)
  • The Munich folk singers (1956)
  • Love little world (1962)
  • A Light Shines For Us (1967)
  • The Green Hat (1968)
  • That Accompanied My Life: Dog Stories (1972)

Stage works

  • The Incident (1927)
  • The Redemption of Cain (1932)
  • Holy Night (1933)
  • Kaspar from Brandner looks into paradise (1934)
  • The Geisterbräu (1937)
  • The Ox August
  • Pear tree and Hollerstauden (1947)
  • One Holy Three Kings Game (1950)

Film adaptations

Radio play adaptations

  • 1951: pear trees and elder bushes , BR 1951.
  • 1954: Kaspar from Brandner looks into paradise , BR 1954.
  • 1971: The green hat , BR 1971.
  • 1979: The incident . Radio play with Toni Berger (master butcher Matthias Huber), Andrea Rosenberg (Maria), Wolf Euba (Bruno Willmann, writer), Joseph Saxinger (town pastor Fuchs), Karl Obermayr (Bicherl, brewery owner), Willy Harlander (businessman Pfinsinger), Maria Stadler ( Die Alte Traglerin), Alexander Golling (Oberregierungsrat Mitscherlich), Gerd Anthoff (Kratzmeier, choir regent), Molly Fitz (morality singer ), Walter Fitz (morality singer) and many others. Composition: Rolf Wilhelm , arrangement: Oskar Weber, director: Willy Purucker . BR 1979.

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personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Joseph Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1972
Place of death Munich