Josef Ruederer

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Josef Anton Heinrich Ruederer (born October 15, 1861 in Munich ; † October 20, 1915 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Ruederes father owned a banking business in Munich, was a co-founder and major shareholder of the Löwen Brewery as well as Portuguese consul general and thus belonged to the upper middle class of the city. His mother came from a wealthy family of brewers. After completing high school, Josef Ruederer did an internship at a bank, then he studied history in Berlin and received his doctorate. phil. 1888. Due to a failed patent case , he lost a large part of his fortune and moved to Farchant near Garmisch . He turned to writing and returned to Munich. He belonged to the environment of the Munich Secession and had contacts to the magazine Die Gesellschaft . In 1901 he was co-founder of the cabaret Die Elf Scharfrichter .

In the novels and comedies before the First World War , he denounced the moral decay in the city, the corruption, hypocrisy and the "snacks" of Upper Bavaria . He thus went on a confrontation with Ludwig Thoma , who described him as a " townspeople far removed from everything rural ", who reproduced even the simplest things incorrectly and imperfectly.

During the World War Ruederer was critical of the German cause and began a multi-volume novel, the first part of which he completed in 1915 shortly before his death. It was published in 1916 as The Awakening , and again in 1962 as White-Blue Forty-Eight . In this novel he describes the development of Munich at the time of King Ludwig I.

Works (in selection)

  • Sacrificed! An episode from the life of an officer , 1892
  • A madman. Fight and End of a Teacher (novel), 1894
  • The Consecration of the Flag (Comedy), 1895
  • Tragic Comedies (Stories), 1897
  • Stories of pilgrims, painters and murderers (narratives), 1899
  • The Dawn (Comedy), 1904
  • Munich satires , 1907
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land (Comedy), 1909
  • The grave of Mr. Schafbeck (novella), 1912
  • The awakening (first volume of a novel), 1916
  • Prince Dschem (tragic comedy), 1920
  • Wedding couple (tragic comedy), 1927

literature

  • Friedrich Freksa : Josef Ruederer and The Cloud Cuckoo Home. A polemic. Georg Müller, Munich a. a. 1908 (= Munich brochures; 5)
  • Eduard Gudenrath: The dramatic work of Josef Ruederer. A contribution to the history of modern drama. Univ. Diss., Munich 1924.
  • Claudia Müller-Stratmann: Josef Ruederer (1861-1915). Life and work of a Munich poet at the turn of the century. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1994 (= Regensburg Contributions to German Linguistics and Literature Studies; Series B, Studies; 56) ISBN 3-631-45922-X
  • Gertrud Maria Rösch:  Ruederer, Josef Anton Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 212 f. ( Digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Ruederer, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruederer, Josef Anton Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1915
Place of death Munich