Maximilian Schmidt

Called Maximilian Schmidt Waldschmidt (* February 25, 1832 in Eschlkam ( Agean Sea ) in the Upper Palatinate, † December 8, 1919 in Munich ) was a Bavarian regional writer.

Life

Maximilian was the son of the Customs Manager Adalbert Schmidt and his wife Caroline, born Karg. As a child he made ​​up stories for his two siblings and staged with the village youth theater performances. After visiting the monastery schools in Metten and Straubing and Gymnasium in Passau Schmidt graduated from the trade school in Hof an der Saale, where his father had been transferred as an official. At age 16 Maximilian began studying at the Polytechnic in Munich, announced in 1850 as a volunteer for military service and was 1859 inspection officer at the Royal Cadet Corps in Munich. After the campaign of 1866 in the German war, he was promoted to captain, retired a year later due to illness and ended in 1874 the military service. Since 1863, Maximilian Schmidt was married to the wealthy Auguste Haßlacher. Five children were born, two of which the first year of life did not survive.

During his time in the military Schmidt began to write. The first short stories and novels dealt with people from the Bavarian Forest, whose life he described empathetic and understanding. On his 31st birthday he gave at a private audience to the Bavarian King Maximilian II his first publications. After his retirement in 1874, he wrote stories from the Upper Bavarian region whose first publications usually published as serials in newspapers and national magazines, returned thematically back to the Bohemian and Bavarian Forest, the Chod and Agean Sea; a part of his popular plays were playing in the Bavarian mountains. In 1869 he founded with funds his wife a wooden toy factory in Regenstein, now a part of Bad Kötzting in the Upper Palatinate, which went bankrupt a few years later, as the hoped- rail link was not put to work.

The Bavarian King Ludwig II appointed Maximilian Schmidt in 1884 to the Royal Bavarian Councilor and to him one of his major works have inspired " The Fischerrosl of St. Henry ." On the occasion of his 60th birthday he received from Furth im Wald, Eschlkam and Lam an honorary citizen. Prince Regent Luitpold as an avid reader of Schmidt's publications wanted to raise him to the peerage, this should Schmidt declined. Instead, he was allowed from 1898 the additional name called Waldschmidt lead. This surname became hereditary and is still in his offspring in use.

Work

In 1890, Maximilian Schmidt founded to promote the hitherto insignificant tourism in Bavaria the Bavarian Tourist Association and organized in 1895 a large national costume party on the occasion of the Munich Oktoberfest, out of which developed the collection of meadow hosts the annual Oktoberfest. Because of his interest in folk costumes, he was also known as " costume - Smith." In his publications careful descriptions of Volksstrachten were handed down in Bavaria and neighboring Chod in West Bohemia.

Memory

At the age of 87 years Councilor Maximilian Schmidt died called Waldschmidt, many awards, almost blind in 1919 in Munich, where a commemorative plaque on the house Thierschstraße 47 remembers him. His grave stone in the Old South Cemetery in Munich has been preserved until today. On the Great Riedelstein on Kaitersberg in the Bavarian Forest a monument to him was erected in honor whose relief plate of the Munich sculptor and ore caster Hans Klement has created. Founded in 1984 in his hometown of Eschlkam Waldschmdt Club eV records every year since persons who have made a literary, musical or otherwise deserves artistically local ties, with the Waldschmidt price. The Refuge on the Big Rachel is named in his honor Waldschmidthaus.

Waldschmidt monument at Great Riedelstein

Plaque at Waldschmidt monument at Great Riedelstein

Grave stone at the Old South Cemetery in Munich

Works

Maximilian Schmidt - a " bestselling author " of the 19th century - wrote about 60 more " folk tales ," 40 humorous stories and sketches, 40 dramatic plays, which were performed in Bavaria, as well as numerous occasional poems. Some of the first books he published at his own expense. Many of the following books printed from publishers become aware of in magazines. In the 1890s, the publisher Enßlin & Laiblin from Reutlingen began with the publication of a complete edition, a total of 32 volumes, which was reissued in 1927 by Waldschmidt -Verlag Josef Habbel from Regensburg. Some of his works were filmed as a silent film. A selection of the most famous works:

  • The Christkindlsingerin (1863 )
  • Glasmacherleut ' (1869 )
  • St. John's Night (1880 )
  • The guardian spirit of Oberammergau ( 1880)
  • The ride Leonhard (1882 )
  • The Miesbacher (1882 )
  • The Knappenlisl from Rauschenberg (1883 )
  • The swan maiden, stories from the Berchtesgadner Mooslandl (1885 )
  • The Pfingstelbraut (1885 ) (online version, PDF)
  • The Fischerrosl of St. Henry (1885 )
  • The musician of Tegernsee ( 1886)
  • S'Liserl from Lake Ammersee (1887 )
  • Hancicka, the Chodenmädchen - a cultural image of the Bohemian- Bavarian Forest mountains (1893 )
  • At the golden gate (1894 )
  • The prelate treasure or the student of Metten (1895 )
  • The Hopfenbrockerin (1899/1900)
  • My journey through 70 years I and II ( autobiography, 1901/ 02)
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