Paul Schallweg

Paul Schallweg (born November 16, 1914 in Munich ; † May 8, 1998 in Bischofswiesen ) was a Bavarian writer , cultural manager and cultural promoter.

Life

Initially active as an advertising salesman, publisher and writer, he gained his position as managing director from 1951, later also as board member and chairman of the “ Freunde des Nationaltheaters e. V. ”in Munich made great contributions to the reconstruction and promotion of the National Theater and the Bavarian State Opera , to the promotion of the Gärtnerplatztheater, the Prinzregententheater and the Münchner Volkstheater. He was also a committed friend of Bavarian folk music and Bavarian customs.

Paul Schallweg's writing activity extended almost exclusively to works in Bavarian dialect. In addition, he wrote several radio plays (BR, ORF Radio Tirol, RAI Sender Bozen) and over ten novels. However, he scored the most success with his "operas Bavarian" - 26 in all - that in radio (BR) and television (ServusTV) on many people's theaters and since the early 1980s from the Munich National Theater , the Bavarian State Theater in the Residenz Theater and Prinzregententheater as well as the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz . All of Paul Schallweg's works have been published by the Rosenheim publishing house since the 1970s .

Quote from August Everding about Paul Schallweg on May 14, 1998 in Berchtesgaden: “His name was program. Not sound and smoke, but sound and path ”.

Quotation from Hellmuth Matiasek from his laudation on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Paul Schallweg on November 16, 2014 in the Munich Prinzregententheater: “Paul Schallweg will be remembered as the legend of a Munich citizen, as painted by Kaulbach and told by Ruederer, an ambassador the old Bavarian way of life, which he loved and lived, promoted and described. An entire era of local post-war history remains associated with his name. "

Award

" Munich shines - the friends of Munich" (1984)

Operas in Bavarian

In the “Operas in Bavarian”, the author Paul Schallweg has cast the content of world-famous and popular operas into original dialect verses. The scenery of the operas is mostly relocated to the Bavarian country, so that “Der Fliagade Holländer” does not experience his adventures off the rough coast of Norway, but on Lake Starnberg . A large number of Bavarian opera parodies were created, including "The Mastersingers of Miesbach", "The Lohengrin of Wolfratshausen", "The Magic Flute - or the Miracle of the Königssee" or "The Ring in One Wash" - freely based on Richard Wagner's famous Nibelungenring. The music for the “Operas in Bavarian” comes from the pen of Friedrich Meyer and Rolf Wilhelm, who never let the opera original out of their sight, but who also let Alpine and Bavarian sounds flow into the compositions in a very charming way. It is not uncommon for a Bavarian Zwiefacher to mix with famous opera arias, or the triumphal march from Aida merges in an amusing way with the hit song " Yes, I'm here with my bike " ...

The “Ring in one wash” alone - of course also relocated to the Bavarian region by Paul Schallweg - was performed over 100 times in the Munich Prinzregententheater in the 1980s. For many years the ensemble has been a guest at the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater and the Prinzregententheater several times per season. In addition, every year there are numerous performances all over Bavaria, even in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Austria, which are almost always sold out.

The cast of the ensemble "Opern auf Bayrisch" consists of the three well-known Bavarian actors Gerd Anthoff , Conny Glogger and Michael Lerchenberg , a percussionist (Werner Hofmeister) and the "Musikensemble Opern auf Bayrisch" (members of the large Munich orchestras) under his direction Conductor Andreas Kowalewitz.

The ensemble was founded in 1985 and originally only put together for a single carnival performance in the Munich Volkstheater. Bayerischer Rundfunk recorded and broadcast this performance back then, and it was such a great success that over 300 follow-up performances with a wide variety of programs have taken place in the following years. Well-known Bavarian folk actors like Gustl Bayrhammer , Karl Obermayr , Jörg Hube , Alexander Duda , Ruth Kappelsberger and Monika Gruber have played in the ensemble “Operas in Bavarian” over the past 30 years .

The ensemble's repertoire includes the following operas in Bavarian (music: Friedrich Meyer and Rolf Wilhelm):

The ring in one go:
- The Rheingold - or: De Gschicht from de goidana apples
- Die Walküre - or: The heroic drama on the Watzmann
- Siegfried - or: The fight with the dragon creature
- Götterdämmerung - or: How was it in the end?
Tannhäuser - or: De Venus in the Kampenwand
The Lohengrin von Wolfratshausen - or: Because d 'women oiwei ois have to know
The fliagade Dutchman - or: Wia de Zenze from Leoni through her sacrificial death to seafarers from damnation
The Mastersingers of Miesbach - or: How the chief forester Stolz struck out the town clerk Beck
Tristan and Isolde - A Liabstragödie with Wuiderer insert
Aida - or: The love drama from the Nile
Rigoletto - or: The Count of Dachau
Carmen - or: Wia d'Liab made Sepp a murderer
The Bajazzo - or: The Jaager from Spitzingsee
The Barber of Seville - or: The Bader of Ruahpolding
The Magic Flute - or: The miracle of the Königssee
Don Giovanni in Bavarian - or: Count Hallodri von Lenggrias
The merry women of Windsor - or: The Count of Starnberg
Madame Batterflei - or: Wia a heartless Ami a liabs kloans Japanese girl has let sit
Salome - or: How the prophet Jochanaan betrayed, tempted and beheaded is worn (from 2019!)
Der Freischütz - or: Wia a Jaager in a very neat way to seim Wei kemma
Turandot - or: Wia a Chinese princess à la tatar kloakriagt is worn
La Bohème - or: The beautiful Mimi
Margarete - or: Doctor Faust

In addition, the following operas in Bavarian have only been published in text form:

La traviata - or: The Lost One
Elektra - or: It could go that fast when a person has his black horse
The Troubadour - or: The Gypsy's Revenge

Works

The Wolpertinger (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 2015) ISBN 978-3475544798
Operas in Bavarian - Act 2 (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 2015) ISBN 978-3475544316
Operas in Bavarian (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 2001) ISBN 978-3475531927

From Fliagadn Holländer to Lohengrin von Wolfratshausen (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1977) ISBN 978-3475522062
The Meistersinger von Miesbach and other Bavarian operas (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1979) ISBN 978-3475522727
From Rigoletto to Magic Flute (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1989) ISBN 978-3475526152
From Bader von Ruahpolding to Mimi von Schwabing (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1992) ISBN 9783475527401
From Urbaaz to the Fall of Man (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1978) ISBN 978-3475522338
Huif himme! (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1982) ISBN 978-3475523526
Wia hammas? (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1984) ISBN 978-3475524462
The Wolpertinger (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1994) ISBN 978-3475527951
The Star of Bethlehem (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1995) ISBN 978-3475528279

Pharisees and tax collectors (Manz Verlag Munich 1954)
The cross shot (Manz Verlag Munich 1962)
Aufruhr im Dorf (Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1995) ISBN 978-3475539336

Festive opera. History and reconstruction of the National Theater in Munich. Published by the Free State of Bavaria with the participation of the Friends of the Nationaltheater eV and the City of Munich. Management and editing: Paul Schallweg. (Verlag Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1964)

Web links

Commons : Paul Schallweg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Table of contents Operas in Bavarian , Volume 1 and 2
↑ List of pieces from operas in Bavarian , Volumes 1 and 2

personal data
SURNAME	Schallweg, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 16, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	May 8, 1998
Place of death	Bischofswiesen

[1] Table of contents Operas in Bavarian , Volume 1 and 2

[2] List of pieces from operas in Bavarian , Volumes 1 and 2