Siegfried Sommer

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Bronze statue of Sigi Sommer in Rosenstrasse, Munich

Siegfried (Sigi) Sommer (born August 23, 1914 in Munich ; † January 25, 1996 there ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Sommer was born the son of a Munich furniture restorer and co-founder of the Cowboy Club Munich . His great-great-grandfather was the royal engineer-geographer Johann Adolph Sommer.

After finishing his school days at the Gotzinger School in Sendling , he completed an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer. In 1932, Sommer made his debut with a short story in the magazine Die Jugend , worked in his free time as a dancer and was a freelancer for the Münchner Abendblatt until the outbreak of war .

During World War II , Sommer was on duty in France and on the Eastern Front and was wounded. At the end of the war he was sergeant major. Back in Munich, he worked for SZ for a number of years specializing in “local tips” . In 1949 he moved to AZ . It was there on December 2, 1949 that his local column Blasius, the walker with illustrations by the cartoonist Ernst Hürlimann , appeared for the first time . Sommer's colleague Franz Freisleder from the SZ once commented on Blasius with Volkstheater on a few square centimeters of paper .

In 1960, Sommer was involved in an affair with Werner Friedmann , the then partner and editor-in-chief of the SZ . He had lent his apartment to Friedmann 'if necessary' and was therefore sentenced to 6 months probation in 1962 for being puffy , like Friedmann.

First novel, published in the summer of 1954, And nobody weeps for me , was described by Bertolt Brecht as “the best novel written in Germany after the war”. In 1996 he was of Joseph Vilsmeier filmed . Already two years after its publication , the director Alfred Vohrer realized a screen adaptation of Sommer's second novel Meine 99 Bräute (1956) . In 1969, Sommer made his debut with Marile Kosemund in the Münchner Kammerspiele , but was not very successful.

The Blasius column was very successful, it appeared in the AZ without interruption for almost forty years, the last of about 3,500 columns came out on January 2, 1987.

Grave cross at the Winthir cemetery

Sigi Sommer has an illegitimate daughter, Erna Eberl, b. Eder and a legitimate daughter Madeleine Sarcletti-Sommer. He was then in a relationship with Louise Pallauf until the end of his life.

At the age of 81 years Sigi Sommer died after a long period of suffering on January 25, 1996 in Rinecker Clinic Munich and was on the Neuhauser Winthirfriedhof in Munich buried (grave no. 4-5-5). In his hometown of Munich , he was honored with a life-size bronze statue by the sculptor Max Wagner , which shows him walking with a newspaper under his right arm. The statue donated by the RS Schulz family of publishers stands in the pedestrian zone on Roseneck in Rosenstrasse and was unveiled on July 28, 1998. In 2009 the place in front of his parents' house in Bruderhofstr. 43 in Munich was renamed “Sigi-Sommer-Platz” by the City of Munich on the initiative of his cousin Helga Lauterbach-Sommer.

Works (selection)

  • Movie heroes (1945)
  • Blasius walks through the city (short stories) 1950–1953
  • The best of Blasius (short stories) 1953
  • And nobody cries after me , Roman, Desch, Munich / Vienna / Basel 1953, new edition: Süddeutsche Zeitung , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-627-2 .
  • The last of Blasius (short stories) 1955
  • My 99 Brides , novel, 1956; New edition: Ludwig, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7787-3787-2 .
  • Blasius the last pedestrian (short stories) 1960.
  • Munich for beginners , 1962
  • Colored Munich , 1965
  • Marile Kosemund. A suburban play , premiered at the Münchner Kammerspiele 1969
  • Stroll through Munich (short stories) 1970
  • The days go by. Munich stories , 1970
  • Wanderer you come to Munich (short stories) 1971
  • That'll never come back. A Munich memory book , 1976
  • Yes, where did kemma de kloana Schrazerl come from ?, 1976
  • The Wildschütz Jennerwein , 1976
  • That only happened once , in 1978
  • That's too good to be true (memories) 1979
  • So Spoke Blasius , 1980
  • Love for Munich (short stories) 1984
  • The Youngest Day and another 63 G'schichterl . Foreword by Sibylle Anneliese Friedmann ; Caricatures: Ernst Hürlimann . Percha a. Starnberger See: RS Schulz, cop. 1985.
  • Off, apples, amen. Farewell to Blasius , 1986
  • Love, Lenz and Little Luden (stories) 1988
  • Feinsliebchen aus Stein (Stories) 1989
  • Sendlinger G'schichten , edited by Helga Lauterbach-Sommer. Munich City Library, Monacensia, Literature Archive and Library, Allitera, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86906-652-3 .

Films based on works by Siegfried (Sigi) Sommer

Literature on Siegfried Sommer

Awards

Others

Since 2001, the Narrhalla carnival company has awarded the Sigi-Sommer-Taler art prize.

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personal data
SURNAME Summer, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Summer, Sigi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1996
Place of death Munich