Ludwig Thoma (January 21, 1867, Oberammergau – August 26, 1921, Rottach) was a German author, publisher and editor, who gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of everyday Bavarian life.After graduation from the Imperial Latin School in Landstuhl (today: Sickingen- Gymnasium Landstuhl), he first studied Forestry in Aschaffenburg, then Law until 1893 in Munich and Erlangen. Subsequently, he settled down as a lawyer, at first in Dachau, later in Munich.After 1899, he worked for the magazine Simplicissimus and published humorous narrations, comedies, novels and stories. Thoma satirized Bavarian rural and small-town life. His serious peasant novels Andreas Vöst (1905), Der Wittiber (1911), and Der Ruepp (1922), as well as his humorous collections Assessor Karlchen (1900), Lausbubengeschichten [Scoundrel Stories] (1904), and Tante Frieda [Aunt Frieda] (1906), are characterized by authenticity of regional language and life. Thoma's dramas, including Die Medaille [The Medal] (1901), Das Säuglingsheim [The Orphanage] (1913), and especially Moral (1908), reflect elements of folk theater.In 1907 he married 25-year-old Marietta di Rigardo, who was born in the Philippines. The marriage however did not last, Marietta was soon bored and by 1911 Thoma and Marietta were divorced. In the later years of his life, he wrote nationalistic propaganda agitating against left-wing politicians (e.g. for the newspaper "Miesbacher Anzeiger").During World War I he served as a paramedic. In July 1917 he joined the German Fatherland Party.His best-known works are Ein Münchner im Himmel (A Municher in Heaven), the Lausbubengeschichten (Scoundrel Stories) and Jozef Filsers Briefwexel (Jozef Filser's Correspondence). Lausbubengeschichten was made into a movie in 1964, also released in English under the title Tales of a Young Scamp.
Bavarian journalist and author. Initially a student of forestry and law, subsequently publisher and editor of the magazine "Simplicissimus" (1899). Writer of folksy, satirical stories, set in small-town or rural Bavaria.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Moral
2005
TV Movie play
Die Lokalbahn
1994
TV Movie
Moral
1993
TV Movie play
Hochzeit
1985
TV Movie
Magdalena
1983
TV Movie
Der Jagerloisl
1982
TV Movie story
Waldfrieden + Gelähmte Schwingen
1979
TV Movie
Moral
1979
TV Movie
Der Ruepp
1979
TV Movie story
Andreas Vöst
1979
TV Movie
Der alte Feinschmecker
1978
TV Movie
Münchnerinnen
1976
TV Movie novel
Brautschau
1975
TV Short
Die Medaille
1975
TV Movie
Der Wittiber
1975
TV Movie novel
Gelähmte swingen
1973
TV Movie play
Waldfrieden
1973
TV Movie
Zwei Einakter
1973
TV Movie
Josef Filser - Ein lustiges Spiel mit Ludwig Thoma und seinen Gestalten
1972
TV Movie characters
Die Lokalbahn
1972
TV Movie
Ludwig auf Freiersfüßen
1969
stories
Die Lokalbahn
1969
TV Movie play
Witwen
1969
TV Movie play
Altaich
1968
TV Movie play
Wenn Ludwig ins Manöver zieht
1967
stories
Das Säuglingsheim
1967
TV Short play
Dichters Ehrentag
1967
TV Short play
Die kleinen Verwandten
1967
TV Short plays "Das Säuglingsheim" and "Dichters Ehrentag"