Ulrich Loercher

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Ulrich Lörcher (born January 20, 1869 in Lorch (Württemberg) ; † November 23, 1930 in Untertürkheim ) was a German writer and journalist.

The son of the evangelical Lorcher pastor attended the Latin school in Groß-Bottwar for four years and attended the teachers' seminar at Tempelhof near Crailsheim from 1885 to 1889 . He worked for a year as a teacher at a private school in Mönchengladbach , then went on a trip to Belgium and Holland and then entered the Württemberg school service, in which he was only active for a short time. In 1895 he went to Strasbourg , where he edited the “Sunday Greetings” and from 1898 as editor-in-chief of the “Straßburger Tageblatt”. In 1899 he moved to Kolmar as editor-in-chief of the "Elsässer Tageblatt" , but returned to Strasbourg in 1902 to accept a position as editor in the literary bureau of the imperial ministry . In 1918 he was expelled from Alsace, which had now become French.

He wrote numerous historical stories and also some novels. Rudolf Krauss called Lörcher “a skilled Christian folk teller with a strong Protestant awareness”.

In 1897 he married the writer Erica Grupe-Lörcher .

Works (in selection)

  • The Lavenstein Family, 1894 ( Calwer Family Library, Vol. 32) Internet Archive ; ( Summary by the author ).
  • A Christmas Eve, 1894.
  • The Müllerfritz, 1895.
  • From Hungary's Horrible Days, 1895. 2nd edition 1896.
  • Violin Jacoble, 1896.
  • From the people for the people, 1897.
  • Wonderfully managed, 1899.
  • Susanne, 1901.
  • All sorts of hearts, 1902
  • Memories from the time of the siege of Strasbourg in 1870, undated (1903)
  • From Hungary's religious struggles, 1905.
  • Our compatriots in Transylvania, 1906.
  • Alsatian stories, 1907.
  • The alpine dairy in the Vosges, 1906.
  • The Reading Devil, 1907.
  • Faithful in faith or the suffering of the Evangelicals in the Münstertal in Alsace, 1909.
  • From the days of the battle near Saarbrücken and the Battle of Spichern, 1908.
  • In the battle for Alsace, 1911
  • Madeleine, 1914
  • Klaus, 1914
  • The chasseur corporal, 1915 HU Berlin
  • About Alsace. War story, 1916 SB Berlin
  • Vosges Heroes, 1917
  • Around Sibiu, 1918
  • The Watch on the Rhine, undated (1920?)
  • Out of the Swamp, 1922
  • The Bible Man and the Peasant Woman, 1922
  • The Lord is the Sun and the Shield, 1922
  • Those who want to get rich there, 1922
  • Poisoned, 1923
  • The Lord's Prayer on Christmas Eve, 1923
  • A homecoming, 1924
  • The hailstorm in Rebhausen, 1924
  • In the Devil's Tyranny, 1925
  • By someone who wanted to get rich, 1925. 2nd edition 1949. 3rd edition 1952.
  • God's Mills Grind Slowly, 1926
  • Two friends of God, 1926
  • In the whirlpool of modern times, 1926
  • The secret word, 1927
  • Christmas Lights in the Darkness of the Earth, 1927
  • Dark Forces, 1927
  • The model host, 1928
  • Good faith. The sufferings of the Evangelicals in Alsace, 1929

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Lörcher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwäbische Litteraturgeschichte Vol. 2 (1899), p. 353 Internet Archive .
personal data
SURNAME Lörcher, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorch (Württemberg)
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1930
Place of death Untertürkheim