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Ludwig Thoma (21 January 1867, Oberammergau – 26 August 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'' (Stories ) (1904), and ''Tante Frieda'' (Frieda ) (1906), are characterized by authenticity of regional language and life. Thoma's dramas, including ''Die Medaille'' (Medal ) (1901), ''Das Säuglingsheim'' (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").〔(Historisches Lexikon Bayerns - 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''. == Works == * ''Die Lokalbahn'' (1901) * ''Lausbubengeschichten'' (1905) * ''Tante Frieda'' (1907) * ''Moral'' (1909) * ''Ein Münchner im Himmel'' (1911) * ''Jozef Filsers Briefwexel'' (1912) * ''Altaich'' (1918) * ''Münchnerinnen'' (1919) * ''Der Jagerloisl'' (1921) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ludwig Thoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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