Ludwig Schmid-Wildy
Ludwig Schmid-Wildy (born May 3, 1896 in Aachen , † January 30, 1982 in Rosenheim ) was a German folk actor , director , author and inventor . He was significantly involved in early Nazi propaganda films, after the war he became one of the most popular Munich actors and embodied the amiable rascal in his roles with subtle humor and a dash of melancholy .
Life
Ludwig Schmid-Wildy was the son of the Schwabing sculptor Anton Schmid . At the age of nine he was the model for the Münchner Kindl designed by his father at the city's new town hall . During an apprenticeship as a pastry chef, he met Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt , who were regular customers, and decided to switch to acting. During the First World War in 1915 he served five months as a volunteer nurse on a hospital train in Russia and Serbia. In early 1917 he was dismissed unfit for duty.
Career
Stage actor
As early as the 1920s Schmid-Wildy could be seen in various stage plays throughout Germany and from the 1930s also in smaller film roles, among others at the side of Hans Moser and Luis Trenker . In 1933 he took over the Munich Volkstheater as senior director . After a forced break with a professional ban, Ludwig Schmid-Wildy returned to his old job in 1952. He was entrusted with the management of the Münchner Platzl , for which he wrote over 200 pieces and where he later discovered folk actors such as Willy Harlander . In addition, he also appeared on stage again.
Film actor
Together with the writer and SA leader Hans Zöberlein , he shot two notorious Nazi propaganda fictional films as a co-director and actor in 1934 : " Shock Troop 1917 " and " Um den Menschenrecht ", in which the German soldier from the First World War and the Freikorps after 1918 as well as the so-called " fighting time " of the National Socialist movement were glorified. Both films were banned in 1945; the latter is still so today, the former was re-admitted in 2007 in a heavily censored version shortened by 32 minutes.
After his digressions into National Socialist propaganda , Schmid-Wildy shifted almost exclusively to the comedic subject in folk homeland films. In 1940 he played alongside Joe Stöckel and Elise Aulinger in the comedy Das sündige Dorf . After a forced break, he was back in film in the early 1950s and from the 1960s in the comedy aristocracy of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation alongside colleagues such as Maxl Graf , Max Grießer and Erni Singerl . He gained nationwide popularity through the TV series Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht with Hans Baur and Georg Blädel , in which he played a recurring role - the rogue night watchman Veitl.
He played his last role in 1982 in two episodes of the children's series Meister Eder and his Pumuckl at the side of Gustl Bayrhammer , who also dubbed him because his voice was getting thinner and thinner.
Role as an inventor
His significant involvement in the two early propaganda films cost him a few years of professional bans from 1945. During this time Schmid-Wildy withdrew and tinkered with his own inventions in his house on Irschenberg . In addition to a dumpling machine and a turbine motor, he designed a worldwide patented battery that can be stored indefinitely. The patent enabled him to open his own battery factory with 50 employees.
Sickness and death
Shortly after filming the Pumuckl film ended, he died at the age of 85 in Rosenheim . He was buried in the Irschenberg cemetery. On January 28, 2007, Bavarian Television dedicated a reminder program to Ludwig Schmid-Wildy in which, among other things, he was portrayed as a completely apolitical person.
Awards
- 1971: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1976: Ludwig Thoma Medal from the City of Munich
- 1980: Bavarian poet thaler
Filmography
movie theater
- 1934: raid troop 1917 ; Director
- 1934: Chess of Eve; Director
- 1938: Thunderstorm in May
- 1939: Riots in Damascus
- 1939: Gold in New Frisco
- 1939: The fire devil
- 1939: A Robinson
- 1939: Escape into the dark
- 1940: the sinful village
- 1940: enemies
- 1940: The gentleman in the house
- 1941: The sanctimonious Florian (& book)
- 1941: blood brotherhood
- 1941: Alert level V
- 1943: The ox war
- 1943: The eternal sound
- 1944: The secret brides
- 1952: The beautiful Tölzerin
- 1952: monks, girls and pandours
- 1952: The master carver of Ammergau
- 1953: The Bachelor Trap (& book)
- 1954: The sinful village
- 1956: The beggar student
- 1957: marriage prohibited
- 1958: We child prodigies
- 1959: The Bremen Town Musicians
- 1960: Oh, these Bavarians!
- 1963: From my forest home
- 1969: Ludwig on free feet
- 1970: The little bell under the four-poster bed
- 1970: The bed student or what do I do with the girls?
- 1974: Two heavenly thick skulls
- 1974: Black Forest trip out of lovesickness
- 1975: hugs and other things
- 1976: The silence in the forest
- 1977: The youthful pranks of the boy Karl
Television (selection)
The comedy nobility
- 1959: The comedy nobility : The z'brochane Kruag (one act)
- 1959: The comedy nobility: The baptism meal (one-act play)
- 1959: The comedy nobility: Yes, such a capercaillie (one act)
- 1961: The comedy nobility: The gypsy room
- 1961: The comedy nobility: The three polar bears
- 1962: The comedy nobility: Count Schorschi
- 1962: The Comedy Nobility: The Wedding (one-act act)
- 1963: The comedy nobility: The cobbler Nazi
- 1963: The Komödienstadel: Der Geisterbräu
- 1964: The comedy nobility: The daughter of Bombardon
- 1964: The comedy nobility: When the rooster crows
- 1965: The comedy nobility: The city elevation
- 1967: The comedy nobility: a row about Jolanthe
- 1970: The comedy nobility: the guest of honor
- 1972: The comedy nobility: Mattheis breaks the ice
- 1973: The Comedy Nobility: The Three Polar Bears
- 1974: The Comedy Nobility: The Sinful Village
Television films
- 1965: The old gourmet
- 1966: The Borehole or Bavaria is not Texas
- 1968: Altaich
- 1972: The local railway
- 1973: Sonja abolishes reality or an incredibly strong finish
- 1975: Kaspar from Brandner and eternal life
- 1976: Jacob the Last
- 1976: The sold grandfather
- 1979: The Ruepp
TV Shows
- The fifth column
- Radio patrol Isar 12 ; with Wilmut Borell and Karl Tischlinger
- 1966: The night courier reports : Hermann and Dorothea are doing well
- 1967: In good Bavarian language
- 1969–1971: Royal Bavarian District Court ; with Hans Baur and Georg Blädel
- 1974–1975: Munich stories ; with Günther Maria Halmer and Therese Giehse
- 1976: Zwickelbach & Co .; with Karl Lieffen
- 1977: Police Inspection 1 - And no kopeck less
- 1979: Tatort - Maria im Elend
- 1981: Meister Eder and his Pumuckl (episode 19 and 26)
literature
- Ludwig Schmid-Wildy: All kinds of mess. With a foreword by Gustl Bayrhammer, Rosenheim, 1976 ( Rosenheimer Verlagshaus , ISBN 978-3-47552-152-2 )
- Ludwig Schmid-Wildy: Up and down. Rosenheim, 1981 (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, ISBN 978-3-47552-328-1 )
- Sybille Krafft : Bavarian folk actor. 12 personal portraits by Sybille Krafft, Munich, 2013 ( Allitera Verlag , ISBN 978-3-86906-535-9 )
Web links
- Ludwig Schmid-Wildy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ludwig Schmid-Wildy at filmportal.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schmid-Wildy, Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian folk actor, director, author and inventor |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1896 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1982 |
Place of death | Rosenheim |