Wilhelm Pülz

Wilhelm Pältz (born December 12, 1901 in Bayreuth ; † 1985 ) was a widely read German author in his day. He mainly published short stories in which he processed historical personalities and events.

Life

Pultz was a full-time teacher and has written a long series of historical novels and short stories for decades. He characterized Friedrich the Great, Mozart, Hölderlin, Goethe, Eichendorff, Möricke, Carl Maria von Weber and Robert Schumann among many others. As a young man, Pältz lived for several years as an elementary school teacher in Holzkirchen and knew the Nördlinger Ries firsthand. It is recorded in the "Archives of the Music Teachers" of the Bavarian State Main Archives.

After the Second World War, his works were published by Brückenverlag in Augsburg, which exclusively publishes Pältz , and from 1980 in Siegsdorf im Chiemgau.

Works (selection)

• The fathers inheritance. Swabian farmer's novel. Oestergaard, Berlin 1931 (literary motif: Central Swabian hill country)
• The last marquise. Roman from the dying rococo. 1934
• The old and the young king. Novel. The youth of Frederick the Great. Schaufuss, Leipzig 1935
• The Heidehof. Novel of the Lüneburg Heath. Oestergaard, Berlin 1936
• Rider in the dawn. Novel from the Wars of Liberation. 1936
• The salty woman. Droste-Hülshoff novel. 1936
• Mother of the people. A German woman's novel. Östergaard, Berlin 1938 (literary motif: Queen Luise of Prussia)
• The birth of the German opera. A novel about Carl Maria von Weber. By Hase & Koehler, Leipzig 1939
• The water features of the Villa d'Este. Narrative. Deutscher Volksverlag, Munich 1941 (literary motif: Franz von Liszt in Rome)
• The castle in Champagne. Historical novel from the time of the French Revolution. Oestergaard, Berlin 1941
• The day of city wages. Pictures by Wolfgang Felten . Deutscher Volksverlag, Munich 1943 (literary motif: Battle of Stadtlohn )

Works since the 1950s:

• "Sun over Wallerstein" is a novel published in 1954 about the romantic Rieser love story between Prince Ludwig zu Oettingen-Wallerstein (1791–1870) and the daughter of his court gardener, Maria Creszentia Bourgin. Prince Ludwig met 15-year-old Maria at Baldern Castle in 1821 and fell in love with her straight away. With courage and perseverance, he defied all opposition in his family and married the bourgeoisie in 1823. After the forced renunciation of the majority, the young couple lived in Reimlingen Castle from 1825 , before Ludwig was appointed Bavarian Minister of the Interior by King Ludwig I. .
• "The Tomb in Franconia" is a novel from 1958, which is about Georges de Bièvre and is set in Triesdorf .
• "Thanks to the home", 1974, Brückenverlag
• "The idyll of Sesenheim. Goethe's experience as a student in Strasbourg", 1959, Brückenverlag
• "The Huguenot Fountain", 1967, Brückenverlag
• "The Maestro of Torre del Lago", 1969, Brückenverlag
• "The island of happy people", 1968, Brückenverlag
• "The last night; Hölderlin-Novelle", 1963, Brückenverlag
• "Frau Aventiure's journey company. Portrait of the cheerful, brave poet Josef Viktor von Scheffel", 1972, Brückenverlag
• "Good old imperial city of Nuremberg", 1979, Brückenverlag
• "In the gardens of music - a romantic booklet", 1967, Brückenverlag
• "In the sun of Catullus: mosaic of a musical trip to Lake Garda", with drawings by Pütz, 1963, Brückenverlag
• "Little trip to Mainfranken", 1976, Brückenverlag
• "Concert in Schwetzingen", 1965, Brückenverlag, is a poem from the Schwetzingen castle garden . Elector Carl Theodor of the Palatinate appoints an elite of artists to his court and rests from the burden of heavy office at his summer residence in Schwetzingen. In the flute player Johann Baptist Wendling he found the companion of his deepest and most beautiful hours and honored him for his special friendship. Wendling enters into a meaningful encounter with Mirandolina, a traveling artist who gives a guest performance in Schwetzingen and wants to keep her beloved forever, for which the elector gives him his helping hand. However, the Mirandolina decides differently.
• "A musical dream in the Rococo", 1981, Brückenverlag
• "Journey to Napoleon's Island", 1968, Brückenverlag
• "South Tyrolean summer days. Song of praise for a paradisiacal landscape", 1975, Brückenverlag
• "Grape cure in Meran", 1969, Brückenverlag
• "Valentin im Weinberg", 1959, Brückenverlag
• "Weather lights. A story from the French Revolution", 1969, Brückenverlag
• "Madonna in the lime wood: Riemenschneider story", Augsburg; Traunstein: Bridge Extension, 1965
• "The Lubowitz Forests: Eichendorff Novelle"
• "The last princess. - The life of the daughter of Madame Wilhelminens von Bayreuth", Brückenverlag, 1973
• "Hieronymus in the case. Notes of an 80 year old", Brückenverlag, 1980
• "Land under the Rainbow", Brückenverlag, Augsburg, 1962
• "Under the pines of Rome", Brückenverlag, Augsburg, 1967
• "Under the trees of the margravine - How I became a musical person", Brückenverlag, Augsburg, 1959
• "The tower cock from Cleversulzbach. Mörike-Novelle", Brückenverlag, Augsburg, 1957
• "The Wanderer Fantasy. The Way and Work of Franz Schubert", Brückenverlag, 1975
• "Fest in Nymphenburg", Brückenverlag, Augsburg-Traunstein, 1958
• "Whitsun trip to Vienna", Brückenverlag, Augsburg, 1964
• "Franconian Capriccio. The cheerful life of a lady from Franconia", Augsburg / Traunstein, Brückenverlag, 1973

literature

• Pultz, Wilhelm. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1937/38. Berlin, Leipzig, Walter de Gruyter 1937, column 608.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Archive of the musical work of teachers" in the Bavarian Teachers' Association (BLLV) "of the Bavarian Main State Archives 
2. ^ Arthur Luther , Heinz Friesenhahn: Land and people in a German story. A bibliographic literary dictionary. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1954, columns 168, 269, 403, 443, 446, 492.