Ludwig Lugmeier

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Ludwig Lugmeier tells and reads from his factual novel The Lives of Captain Bilbo (2018)

Ludwig Lugmeier (born July 31, 1949 in Kochel am See in Upper Bavaria ) is a German writer and "millionaire".

Life

Growing up as the son of a bricklayer in post-war Germany and inspired by pirate stories , films and books (such as the adventure stories by B. Traven ), Lugmeier decided as a child to write the résumé of a gangster . At the age of 14, at the insistence of his father, he also began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, but at that time already committed minor break-ins that earned him a 10-month youth sentence .

He escaped from the juvenile detention center, hitchhiked to Italy and tried unsuccessfully to hire the Mafia in Palermo . After his return home, he found accommodation at a circus as a bear trainer, but was soon picked up again by the police. At this point he begins to write for the first time in prison. After his release from prison, he was hired on a ship to North Africa in 1967. He ends up stranded in Takoradi , but is deported there and ends up in Afghanistan via Istanbul , where he fails in his attempt to start a career as a heroin smuggler . Back in Germany, he was convicted again in Munich after stealing a Madonna figure from a church and found himself in the vicinity of Hans Georg Rammelmayr , who - unlike his partner Dimitri Todorov - was shot in 1971 during the first major hostage-taking in the Federal Republic.

Ludwig Lugmeier at a reading in Club W71 (2006)

At the time of the hostage-taking of Munich during the 1972 Olympic Games , he and his accomplices attacked a money transporter in Munich. This is followed by an escape across Europe and another sensational robbery on a money transport of the state central bank in Frankfurt am Main . He made his way to Mexico , where he was found by Stern reporters in 1974 . This leads to his arrest and extradition to Germany. In 1975, during his trial in Frankfurt, he managed to escape spectacularly through an open window in the courthouse. With the stolen money he builds an existence under the name John Michael Waller. He traveled from England via the Bahamas and Rio de Janeiro to Reykjavík , where, tired and burned out, he was arrested again.

During his imprisonment from 1977 to 1989 he began to write seriously. Diaries, portraits of his fellow inmates, poems and stories are created. Today he lives as a writer, radio essayist and storyteller in Berlin . After he had gained enough distance from his adventures, he literarily combined in his autobiography "the two images of me that exist in public - gangsters and writers ..." .

In 2009 Imbissfilm acquired the rights to the story to produce a feature film.

In his "factual novel" Das Leben des Käpt'n Bilbo , published in 2017, he deals with the life story of Jack Bilbo, who was born Hugo Cyrill Kulp Baruch in Berlin in 1907 and died there in 1967 . Born in a wealthy Jewish family, Bilbo made his way through life under changing identities and fictional roles. In his day he was a celebrated writer, provocative painter, gallery owner and pub owner. Bilbo, who was friends with Kurt Schwitters , Max Schmeling and Henry Miller , among others .

Lugmeier also speaks up in the feature section of the daily media, for example in the left young world or in the taz .

Works

Fonts

Radio plays and features

Audio book

  • The man who jumped out the window. (Read by the author. Music Torsten Papenheim.) Kunstmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88897-410-0

Individual evidence

  1. Torsten Hampel: The adventurer novel In: Der Tagesspiegel from March 19, 2006
  2. See for example: The Wrath of the Emperor. Every vote is right. Herbert Kapfer's unusual narrative stream "1919", in: Junge Welt, May 9, 2019.
  3. Bov Bjerg on 'i' . slip-online. Issue 3, 1999. Retrieved March 29, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Lugmeier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files