33 Facts About Ludwig Thoma

Ludwig Thoma's dramas, including Die Medaille, Das Sauglingsheim, and especially Moral, reflect elements of folk theatre.

Ludwig Thoma was born as the fifth child of forester Max Thoma and his wife Katharina Thoma, nee Pfeiffer, in Oberammergau.

Ludwig Thoma spent the first years of his life in the forester's lodge of Vorderriß on the River Isar near the Tyrolean border, a very remote and lonely area at the time.

Ludwig Thoma's upbringing was essentially in the hands of his nanny Viktoria Probstl, with whom Ludwig Thoma had a very close relationship.

Shortly after the family moved to Forstenried near Munich in 1874, when Ludwig Thoma was only seven years old, his father died and the family were surprised to find themselves destitute: Viktoria Probstl had to sell furniture from the forester's lodge to pay for the burial.

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Ludwig Thoma began a period of alternating between boarding school and holidaying in his family's "idyllic home", as he calls it in Lausbubengeschichten .

Ludwig Thoma had to repeat a year at the study centre in Burghausen.

Ludwig Thoma had to repeat a year in Munich and stayed until 1885.

The trigger for the change of location seems to have been a "shameful act" on the part of Ludwig Thoma, which made it impossible for his sister Marie to accept a suitor.

In 1885, Raesfeldt succeeded in getting Ludwig Thoma admitted to the final year of the grammar school in Landshut, after he was threatened with expulsion from his school in Munich.

Ludwig Thoma stood silently in front of the auditorium, unable to choke out a word, until the headmaster rushed to the podium, improvised a speech and saved the situation.

Ludwig Thoma mocked women a little later in his first comedy Witwen .

In spring 1897, Ludwig Thoma moved to Munich, where he shared a bachelor's apartment with his school friend, Richard Rothmaier, while Viktoria Probstl ran the household.

In September 1899, Ludwig Thoma sold his law firm and became a permanent editor of Simplicissimus.

Ludwig Thoma appeared as a satirist under several pseudonyms - he usually wrote his poems as "Peter Schlemihl".

The play was staged in Berlin; Ludwig Thoma accompanied the production at Uberbrettl there in November 1901.

In 1901, Ludwig Thoma wrote his comedy Die Lokalbahn, which opened on 19 October 1902 .

In 1903, Ludwig Thoma met graphic artist Ignatius Taschner, with whom he soon became close friends.

Certainly by the time of his success with the novel Lokalbahn, Ludwig Thoma had become an important source of income for the publisher.

Ludwig Thoma was rid of his financial worries and indulged in an upper-class lifestyle: together with Albert Langen, he leased a hunting ground in Unterweikertshofen near Dachau, which he had visited repeatedly since 1895.

Ludwig Thoma wrote the mocking story Der heilige Hies and began to write his first novel Andreas Vost.

Ludwig Thoma volunteered as a medic and moved in 1915 with a Bavarian Division to the Eastern Front in Galicia.

In 1917, Ludwig Thoma advertised in the Miesbacher Anzeiger for subscription to war bonds.

Ludwig Thoma spoke several times for the Fatherland Party, as in the summer of 1917 in Munich's Lowenbraukeller.

Ludwig Thoma fell passionately in love with her and bemoaned his fate for not having taken her as his wife at the time.

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Ludwig Thoma called its representative "this sad herd of pigs from Tarnopol and Jaroslau" and emphasized that "besides the Hymie from Promenadenstrasse, we have shot down several from the tribe of Levi shot down …" .

Ludwig Thoma called Eisner himself a "Jewish pig", whose murder he described as an "execution".

Ludwig Thoma insulted Jewish publisher Rudolf Mosse with the words "Rascal with your curly hair and your progressive motion scissors"; Kurt Tucholsky he denigrated as a "little Galician cripple".

Ludwig Thoma died of stomach cancer on 26 August 1921 at his home in Tegernsee.

Ludwig Thoma bequeathed most of his considerable fortune as well as his fees and royalties to Maidi von Liebermann.

Ludwig Thoma was buried in the parish cemetery of the Church of St Lawrence, Egern, in Rottach-Egern by Lake Tegernsee.

Ludwig Thoma uncompromisingly denounced the weakness and stupidity of the bourgeois milieu and chauvinistic Prussianism with its 'Pickelhaube' militarism.

Ludwig Thoma resented the provincialism and the clerical politics of his time in the Kingdom of Bavaria, which is reflected in Jozef Filser's Briefwexel.