Ludwig Schmid-Wildy
Ludwig Schmid- Wildy ( May 3, 1896 in Aachen, † January 30, 1982 in Rosenheim ) was a German folk actor, director, author and inventor. He was the " forefather " of the Munich art of acting and embodied in his roles with subtle humor and a dash of melancholy the loveable rascal.
Life
Ludwig Schmid- Wildy was the son of Schwabing sculptor Anton Schmid. At age nine, he stood for, designed by his father Münchner Kindl at the New City Hall model. During a pastry chef apprenticeship, he learned Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt know that among his regular customers and decided to resort to acting. During the First World War he served five months in 1915 as a volunteer nurse in a hospital train in Russia and Serbia. Beginning of 1917 he was unfit for duty, dismissed. As early as the 1920s was Schmid- Wildy be seen in various stage productions throughout Germany and from the 1930s in smaller film roles, including on the side of Hans Moser and Luis Trenker. In 1933 he took over as chief director, the Munich National Theatre.
Together with the writer and SA- leader Hans Zoberlein he turned in 1934 as co-director and performer two infamous Nazi propaganda movies: "shock troops in 1917 " and " To the human rights ", in which the German combat soldier of World War I and the Freikorps after 1918 and the so-called ' fighting time ' of the Nazi movement were glorified. Both films were banned in 1945. The latter it is today; the former was approved in a heavily censored and truncated to 32 minutes amended again in 2007.
After his excursions into the National Socialist propaganda Schmid- Wildy moved almost exclusively to the comedic specialist in folk home movies. He played in 1940 alongside Joe Stoeckel and Elise Aulinger in the comedy The sinful village. Nevertheless, his authoritative participation to the two early propaganda films from 1945 a few years occupational ban cost him. During this time, Schmid- Wildy moved back and tinkered in his home on Deer Mountain to own inventions. In addition to a dumpling machine and a turbine engine he designed a patented worldwide, unlimited storable battery. The patent enabled him to open its own battery factory with 50 employees.
1952 Ludwig Schmid- Wildy returned to his old profession. To him, the line of the Munich Platz was transferred, for which he wrote more than 200 pieces and where he discovered later popular actors like Willy Harlander. Besides, he also joined himself back on stage and in the film and was engaged in the 1960s for comedy Stadel of the Bavarian Radio, where he starred opposite such stars as Maxie Count, Max Griesser and Erni Singerl. He gained nationwide popularity through the TV series Royal Bavarian district court with Hans Baur and Georg Blädel in which he a recurring role - the crafty night watchman Veitl - took over.
In the 1970s, the actor published his autobiography Allerhand Durcheinand ( Below and Above ). In 1980 he was awarded the Bavarian Poetentaler. He played his last role in 1982 in two episodes of the children's series champion Eder and his Pumuckl on the side of the Gustl Bayrhammer also because his voice was getting thinner, dubbed him. Shortly after the end of filming, he died at the age of 85 years in Rosenheim. He was buried in the cemetery of Deer Mountain.
Bavarian Television devoted Ludwig Schmid- Wildy on January 28, 2007, a remembrance program in which he was represented, among others as a completely apolitical man.
Awards
Films (selection )
TV series
- The fifth column
- Comedy Stadel
- Patrol Isar 12; with Wilmut Borell and Karl table Linger
- 1967 - In good Bavarian
- 1969-1971 - Royal Bavarian district court; Hans Georg Baur and Blädel
- 1974-1975 - Munich stories; with Günther Maria Halmer and Therese Giehse
- 1976 - gusset Bach & Co; Karl Lieffen
- 1979: Crime scene - Mary in misery
- 1983 - Master Eder and his Pumuckl; with Gustl Bayrhammer
- Tatort ( TV series)