Paul Friedl

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Paul Friedl's birthplace in Pronfelden near Spiegelau
Paul Friedl's grave in the Zwieseler Friedhof

Paul Friedl , called "Baumsteftenlenz", (born May 22, 1902 in Pronfelden near Spiegelau , † January 21, 1989 in Zwiesel ) was a German writer and local researcher .

Life

As the seventh of twelve children, Paul Friedl moved to Zwiesel with his parents and siblings in 1905 . He attended the local college for wood carving and briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He was artistically very gifted, but had to give up his work as a visual artist because of his poor eyesight .

At the age of seventeen he was already performing as a folk singer and wrote stories for Bavarian newspapers. In 1927 he worked with his siblings on the radio at the German hour in Bavaria . He later worked for a long time on the radio and appeared repeatedly on television. As a newspaper editor he worked first in Cham and from 1945 in Zwiesel.

It was the declared aim of "Baumsteftenlenz", as it was generally called after the name of the house where he was born, to preserve the folk estate of the Bavarian Forest and make it known throughout the world. He was constantly collecting local songs and music, which ultimately led to the foundation of the folk song archive in Zwiesel. On his initiative, the Volkstums-Wanderpreis Zwieseler Fink was awarded for the first time in 1939 , while Friedl himself appeared as a musician and singer throughout Germany.

Above all, Friedl drew more and more attention as a writer. His work includes 32 local novels , 23 larger folklore works, twelve plays and Christmas plays , two masses and numerous smaller folklore essays. Little by little it gained general public recognition. The novel Veit Ameis brought him his first public award, the German Schiller Foundation Prize . This was followed by the Poetentaler from the Munich tower scribe , the silver medal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the Bavarian Order of Merit , the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and the honorary citizenship of Zwiesel.

On 22 October 2011, was high school Riedlhuette in Paul Friedl- middle school renamed. In the Zwiesel Forest Museum he is honored as a local researcher and folk singer.

Works (selection)

  • The cuddler , 1952
  • Wendl, the forester , 1952
  • The cross in the field , 1955
  • The Vixen von Huschitz , 1955
  • Mühlhiasl , the forest prophet , 1958
  • The Singing Tree , 1958
  • Birnbaum , 1962
  • The great storm , 1962
  • Reconciliation at the Hartlhof , 1962
  • The sun shines differently at home , 1963
  • Who sows lies , 1964
  • The happy end of the world , 1965
  • The devil in the glass , 1966
  • Finsing , 1967
  • Veit Ameis , 1967
  • Black cherries , 1967
  • Wild forest , 1969
  • The railroad attendants , 1970
  • The Secret of the Beautiful Maid , 1970
  • The weaver vom Gollnerberg , 1981
  • The Hof am Strom , 1981
  • The forest was in bloom again in 1985
  • The pastor of Liebfrauenberg , 1985
  • The blind man from Hammermühl , 1988

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ May 20th is also mentioned as the birthday and January 22nd as the day of death.
  2. ↑ Zwieseler Fink 2017
personal data
SURNAME Friedl, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumsteftenlenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Spiegelau , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1989
Place of death Zwiesel , Germany