Willibald Rapp

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Willibald Rapp (born January 6, 1873 in Imberg ; † March 19, 1951 there ) was a German farmer and writer.

Life

Willibald Rapp grew up as the youngest of the eight children of Rosina and Johannes Rapp in Imberg in the Ostrachtal , attended the local village school and had to work as a cowherd from an early age. At the age of 18 he lost his father. He later took over the parental estate and continued farming; he also earned money as a nail smith. Rapp remained unmarried. The property, which still exists at Imberg 16, was handed over to his nephew Andreas Rapp at an old age; today his great-nephew Willibald lives and works there.

His career aspiration to become a pastor had been supported by his teacher, who urged the child to study, but his mother was opposed to this proposal. Rapp became an altar boy at an early age and soon afterwards also a sacristan . He was in close contact with the Catholic Church throughout his life. At the request of his confessor Andreas Ellner, he wrote down his memoirs from 1938 onwards. He stayed in correspondence with Ellner later on.

Andreas Ellner was already planning to publish at least part of Willibald Rapp's texts. He began to create a typescript from the handwritten texts written down in exercise books and sent excerpts to Peter Dörfler , but there was no printed edition during Ellner's lifetime. The material later came to Professor Thomas Finkenstaedt , who gave it to the Augsburg University Archives together with his estate . Together with Willibald Rapp's great-nephew, who was also able to contribute numerous photo documents, he ensured that Willibald Rapp's works and letters went to print more than half a century after his death.

The first volume was published in 2006 under the title My Kingdom. When there were still monkeys at the Sonthof cattle market , the second one a year later. It also contains the letters Rapp wrote to Ellner and is entitled Strong Tobacco. Stories about the bad miller, pastors and »appropriate lit« .

In his epilogue to My Kingdom, Finkenstaedt emphasizes the cultural and historical value of Rapp's records, but also his qualities as a narrator. Therefore, according to Finkenstaedt, only a complete edition of the traditional texts could be considered instead of a selection.

Rapp's texts were presented to the public during the 4th Allgäu Reading Night.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sonthofen.de/sonthofer/archiv/2006/sf_0606.pdf
  2. ↑ Thomas Finkenstaedt, epilogue . In: Willibald Rapp, My Kingdom. When there were still monkeys at the Sonthof cattle market , Ursus Verlag Bad Hindelang 2006, ISBN 3-9810552-6-8 , pp. 115–127
  3. ↑ http://www.kempodium.de/newsletter4-06.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kempodium.de  
personal data
SURNAME Rapp, Willibald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Imberg
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1951
Place of death Imberg