Ludwig Mathar

Ludwig Mathar (born June 5, 1882 in Montjoie ; † April 15, 1958 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Ludwig Mathar was the son of a Monschau merchant family. He attended the high school for boys in his hometown up to secondary school and then the Bischöfliche Konvikt in Bad Münstereifel . In 1897 he joined as a novice in the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome one was when his uncle Bonifacio Oslaender (1835-1904) Abbot, but returned already in the following year to Monschau. He attended the upper level of the Aachen Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium , where he graduated from high school in 1902 . He then studied at the universities in Freiburg / Breisgau , Munich and Bonn ; in between he completed semesters abroad in Paris and London . In 1907 he passed the examination for teaching at secondary schools in Bonn. The subsequent military service as a one-year volunteer with the 160th Infantry Regiment in Bonn, he completed as a lieutenant in the reserve. 1910 doctorate he in Munich with a thesis on Carlo Goldoni for Doctor of Philosophy . He married his childhood sweetheart Mathilde Kühn and worked as a study assistant at a grammar school in Neuss . Mathar participated as a lieutenant of the reserve at the First World War in part and was shortly after the war began in Metz seriously wounded. After a year of recovery, when his wife took him to Monschau, he worked as a teacher at officers' schools in Lokstedt and Libau and as an interpreter in Strasbourg until 1918 .

From 1919 Mathar teacher at the high school cross street in Cologne . In 1922 he published his first novel . In 1926 his wife died of cancer after a long illness. In 1928 he took early retirement in order to devote himself entirely to his writing. With his income he was able to afford a house in Cologne and one in Monschau. So he lived alternately in Monschau and Cologne. After he was made an honorary citizen of Monschau in 1932 , he moved back there in 1934. He got a second marriage with Maria Breuer. Since the income from his literary works had fallen sharply compared to the 1920s, he was forced to work again as a teacher at an evening high school in Cologne from 1939 . In 1945 he fled with his family to Gymnich , where he lived until 1951. He then returned to Monschau , where he died in 1958 after a two-year illness. His tombstone was designed by his friend, the Cologne architect and artist Hans Hansen .

Ludwig Mathar's work consists of novels , short stories , plays and poetry . He had his greatest successes in the 1920s with entertainment novels set in the Monschau petty bourgeoisie or in the High Fens . His attitude during the Third Reich was shaped by the sympathy of the Catholic-Conservative ex-officer for the goals of the National Socialists (especially with regard to the revision of the Versailles Treaty ); the works from this period deal mainly with national themes. After 1945 the author's works assumed an increasingly Christian tendency. - In addition to his literary works, Mathar wrote numerous works on the history and culture of the Rhineland.

Works

• Carlo Goldoni at the German theater of the XVIII. Century , Munich 1910
• I was there too , Itzehoe 1915
• Balten painter in the Rigas City Art Museum , Mitau 1918
• The Monschäuer , Kempten 1922
• The Rhineland , Cologne
  • 1. The Lower Rhine , 1922
  • 2. The Moselle , 1924
• The luck of the Oelbers , Cologne 1923
• Poor Philibert , Freiburg i. Br. 1924
• Five bachelors and one child , Freiburg i. Br. 1924
• Under the scourge , Kempten 1924
• Citoyen Bellegeck , Cologne 1925
• Extinguishing light , Cologne 1925
• Jan van Werth got married , Cologne 1925
• Cologne , Cologne 1925
• The plague surgeon , Cologne 1925
• Postmaster Henot , Cologne 1925
• The shot in the black , Cologne 1925
• Settchen's hat , Freiburg 1925
• The attack on the Ulrepforte , Cologne 1925
• A full autumn , Regensburg 1925
• Weather and Eddy , Cologne 1925
• The three of us , Trier 1925
• Primavera , Bonn 1926
• The country between the Rhine, Wied and Westerwald , Coblenz 1927
• The unequal twins , Berlin 1927
• Miracle of Homeland , Montjoie 1927
• The big feast , Cologne 1928
• The St. Goar district , Koblenz 1928
• The land at Erft and Niers , Paderborn 1928
• The revenge of Gherardesca , Einsiedeln 1929
• Mr. Johannes , Munich 1930
• Saints of the homeland , Dülmen 1931
• The district of Steinfurt , Burgsteinfurt 1931
• The little tailor in the High Fens , Freiburg 1932
• Street of Destiny , Freiburg 1933
• Landscape and cities on the Lower Rhine in pictures and words , Wittlich 1934
• Bridal trip to the Venn and other stories from the High Fens , Paderborn 1935
• Good Saint Martinus , Meitingen 1935
• The girl from Neuss , Fulda 1937
• Rhine and Reich , Paderborn 1937
• The glorious beggar , Paderborn 1939
• The Reichsfeldmarschall , Paderborn 1939
• Albert the German , M. Gladbach 1940
• Eupen-Malmedy , B.-Charlottenburg 1941
• The returned home Eupen-Malmedy-St. Vith , Aachen 1941
• The Gymnicher Ritt , Lechenich 1949
• Master at the Cathedral , Trier 1949
• The Herald of the Pope , Würzburg 1950
• Trip to Italy , Trier 1950 (together with Ludwig Schudt)
• Where love, there home , Speyer 1951
• God wants it! , Cologne 1954
• About the development of the metal industry in the area of ​​ore deposits between Dinant and Stolberg , Lammersdorf via Aachen 1956 (together with August Voigt)
• Ludwig Mathar , Monschau 1982

Editing

• Baltic narrators , Berlin [a. a.] 1918 (published together with Friedrich Teichert)
• Karl Worms : Carl Worms , Berlin [a. a.] 1918

Translations

• Silvio Negro : The Unknown Vatican , Munich 1937

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Mathar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Albertus Mathar: The writer Ludwig Mathar .
• Mathar at rheinische -geschichte.de
• Eva Muehlhens: Walking in a circle. Ludwig Mathar's way home . 2016.