Ludwig Friedrich Barthel (12 June 1898, in Marktbreit – 14 February 1962, in Munich) was a German writer.
Barthel served in the First World War and was a student in Munich. He was later an archivist (German: Archivrat) there. His poems, for example "Tannenburg: Ruf und Requiem" (Tannenberg: A Call and a Requiem; 1934), and such stories as "Das Leben ruft" (Life Calls; 1935), are influenced by the experience of war, which he made into a cult. Because of such tendencies, he venerated Nazism, which he celebrated in such extravagant hymns as "Dom aller Deutschen" (The Cathedral of All Germans; 1938). Barthel also edited the letters of his friend Rudolf Binding (1957).
Publication
- Der Knabe Reim, 1933
- Das Leben ruft, 1935
- Die goldenen Spiele, 1936
- Schi-Novelle, 1938
- Das Mädchen Phöbe, 1940
- Rede vom inneren Vaterland, 1941
- Zwischen Krieg und Frieden, 1943
- Kameraden, 1944
- Runkula - Tagebuch eines Karnickels, 1954
- Am Fenster der Welt, 1968
Lyrik
- Verklärter Leibe, 1926
- Gedichte der Landschaft, 1931
- Gedichte der Versöhnung, 1932
- Dem inneren Vaterlande, 1933
- Tannenberg. Ruf und Requiem, 1934
- Strandgedichte, 1936
- Komme, o Tag!, 1937
- Dom aller Deutschen, 1938
- Neun Gedichte, 1938
- Inmitten, 1939
- Komm, o Knabenherrlichkeit, 1941
- Eines nur rettet noch, Liebe, 1942
- Liebe, du große Gefährtin, 1944
- Blumen, 1951
- Keine Danksagung, 1951
- Kelter des Friedens, 1952
- In die Weite, 1957
- Die Auferstandenen, 1958
- Das Frühlingsgedicht, 1960
- Sonne, Nebel, Finsternis, 1961
- Kniend in Gärten von Dasein, 1963
- Ausklang, 1967