Ludwig Thoma

Ludwig Thoma (January 21, 1867 - August 26, 1921) was a German author, publisher and editor, who gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of Bavarian workaday.

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After graduation from school, the Imperial Latin School in Landstuhl (today: Sickingen- Gymnasium Landstuhl), he first studied Forestry in Aschaffenburg, then Law until 1893 in M?nchen and Erlangen. Subsequently, he settled down as a lawyer, at first in Dachau, later in Munich.

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After 1899, he worked with the Simplicissimus and published humorous narrations, comedies, novels and stories.

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Originally pacifist, he changed his political attitudes towards the end of his life and drew up even anti-semitic texts (e.g. for the newspaper "Miesbacher Anzeiger").

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During World War I he served as a paramedic.

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His best known works are M?nchner im Himmel (A Municher in heaven), the Lausbubengeschichten (Brat stories) and Jozef Filsers Briefwexel (Jozef Filser's Corespontens).

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