Ludwig Schmid-Wildy

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Wiggerl as a Münchner Kindl on the top of the town hall tower

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.

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