Wugg Retzer
Wugg Retzer (born July 12, 1905 in Oberhaselbach near Mallersdorf ; † April 16, 1984 in Munich ; actually: Ludwig Maximilian Retzer ) was a German journalist and writer.
Between 1928 and 1940, Retzer wrote for Die Welt am Sonntag and the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten . From 1948 he was editor of the Münchner Stadtanzeiger and the district edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung .
Wugg Retzer was an eyewitness to the bomb attack on Adolf Hitler on November 8, 1939 by Johann Georg Elser . On November 10, 1939, his eyewitness report was published in the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten under the title “They wanted to take our Führer from us”. In the report he writes, among other things: “The Führer was to be murdered - my God, what bestial brain gave birth and undertook this atrocity? A devouring rage falls upon us. ”Further in the text it says:“ The fervent thanks to Providence, which saved our Germany from the terrible national misfortune and kept us the Fiihrer, pleasantly descends in front of this field of rubble like a veil. ”
He was a member of the writers' association of Munich tower writers . His anthology Der Stier von Pocking is one of the classics of Lower Bavarian culture.
In 1965 he received the Schwabing Art Prize ; In 1967 he was awarded the Bavarian Poet Thaler . In 1978 he received the honorary award of the Bavarian Prime Minister for his services to the Bavarian dialect .
A street is named after him in the Schwanthalerhöhe district of Munich .
In Markt Schierling (formerly Lower Bavaria, since 1972 Upper Palatinate), to whose area the village of Unterlaichling belongs, which Retzer considered his real home village throughout his life, also has a street named after him.
literature
- Kurt Malisch: Retzer, Wugg (Ludwig). In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 141 ( digitized version ).
- Hans Göttler: Wugg Retzer was from Lower Bavaria - and what a man! A picture of the life of the writer and "speaker" Wugg Retzer ; Literatur in Bayern 25:96, 2009, pp. 32–38.
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| SURNAME | Retzer, Wugg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Retzer, Ludwig Maximilian (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberhaselbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1984 |
| Place of death | Munich |