Ludwig Leitl

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Ludwig Leitl
Leitl's birthplace at Mühlenstrasse 16
Richard Miller's Leitl memorial in Tittmoning 1932

Ludwig Leitl (born April 3, 1883 in Tittmoning ; † April 21, 1931 in Munich ) was a German homeland poet from the Salzachgau.

Life

Ludwig Leitl was born in the Gstattenbauermühle in Tittmoning as the eldest son of the electrical engineer Ludwig Leitl and his wife Amalie, née. Gstattenbauer was born. He attended today's Kurfürst-Maximilian-Gymnasium Burghausen and entered the Bavarian postal service at the age of 19, where he achieved the rank of senior postal secretary.

In 1910 he married Friederike Müller, the daughter of a photographer in Dingolfing.

In 1912 he found a lifelong supporter of his literary talent in Hans Buchner, the director and co-owner of the Münchener Zeitung. In a contribution to an honorary issue of the Zeitschau for Buchner, Leitl described the beginnings of his writing career: “ Carried away by the kindness of my new patron, I brought him world-shattering dramas at short intervals, as if I were not working with brains and hands but with a sausage syringe, Novels, comedies etc. ”. He finally followed the persistent urge of his advisor to limit himself to the true strength of his talent, the representation of the rural milieu of his homeland. From 1925 onwards, the peasant novels located in the region between Salzach and Inn appeared in quick succession, which were initially printed as newspaper novels. Contemporary critics viewed his novels as works worthy of Ludwig Thomas 's successor .

Leitl, however, was unable to cope with the strain of his professional activity and his literary career, which he pursued with immense diligence, and died at the age of only 48 in Agnesstrasse 48/1 in Munich-Schwabing.

One year after Leitl's death, Munich friends and sponsors had a memorial erected in his birthplace Tittmoning. The work at Laufener Tor, made by the Munich sculptor Richard Miller, has been preserved to this day.

Works

Peasant novels

  • The Brunnhofer (1925)
  • Jakob Murr (1926)
  • Der Hocheder (1927) Only published as a newspaper novel.
  • The Zaglerhof. A farmer's novel from our days (1931)

More novels

  • The Other Face (1928) Only published as a newspaper novel.
  • Behind the Scenes of Time (1929) Only published as a newspaper novel.

drama

  • Jakob Murr (1926) in collaboration with Maximilian Ferner

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Hartmann: Ludwig Leitl. Postman and local poet. In: Archives for Postal History in Bavaria (1957), pp. 158–161
  2. ^ Karl Thomas (pseudonym for Maximilian Fleischmann), From the chronicle of the Ludwig Leitls family. In: Zeitschau (1932), No. 6/7, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Otto Mauser: The poet of the Salzgau. Ludwig Leitl in memory. In: Zeitschau (1932), No. 6/7, pp. 1–2
  4. ^ Paul Wertheimer in: Neue Freie Presse , July 28, 1931
personal data
SURNAME Leitl, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Tittmoning
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1931
Place of death Munich