Max Hofmann (local poet)

Max Hofmann around 1898

Title page of Wia der Schnabi g'wachsn is (1898)

Max Hofmann (born July 27, 1861 in Mering ; † May 21, 1931 in Munich ) was a German homeland poet who wrote his works in Upper Bavarian dialect.

Life

Max Hofmann was born in Mering as the son of track master Valentin Hofmann. He grew up in Sauerlach and Landsberg am Lech , where his father was transferred. In 1873/74 he attended Latin school, the grammar school near St. Stephan in Augsburg. After visiting the preparatory institute in Landsberg in 1876/77, training as a teacher at the seminary in Freising from 1877-79 and doing preparatory work, he became a teacher in Munich in 1883 after passing his employment examination, where he taught at the boys' school in Schwindstrasse. In 1898 and 1901 he published two successful volumes of poetry in Upper Bavarian dialect and was a member of a loose association of dialect poets based in Munich, headed by Aloys Dreyer and u. a. Elise Beck , Fritz Druckseis and Wilhelm Dusch belonged.

Hofmann also seems to have been interested in the motorized aviation industry, which was then emerging. He apparently sold a patented "control device for hang-gliders" on behalf of Joseph Hofmann in Geneva.

He was a writer and main teacher, most recently senior teacher, at Adalbertstrasse 49 in Munich. Hofmann was married to Maria Voitenleitner since 1884. He was retired in 1926 and died in Munich at the age of 69.

Works

How the Schnabi grows , Verlag Seitz and Schauer, Munich 1898
Because it's the same - poems in Upper Bavarian dialect , published by Josef Deschler, Munich 1901.

Web links

Literature by and about Max Hofmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Max Hofmann in the Gutenberg-DE project
Max Hofmann in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )

Individual evidence

↑ Aloys Dreyer: 70 years in a backpack. Munich 1934, p. 81.
↑ [1] . There is probably no relationship.
^ Journal for flight technology and motorized airship travel. Volume 2, 1911, p. IV and p. 164.
↑ The biographical information is based on: Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 3. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 262–263, and the personal file in the Munich State Archives.

personal data
SURNAME	Hofmann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German homeland poet
DATE OF BIRTH	July 27, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mering
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 1931
Place of death	Munich

[1] Aloys Dreyer: 70 years in a backpack. Munich 1934, p. 81.

[2] [1] . There is probably no relationship.

[3] Journal for flight technology and motorized airship travel. Volume 2, 1911, p. IV and p. 164.

[4] The biographical information is based on: Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 3. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 262–263, and the personal file in the Munich State Archives.