Homage to a Pöckinger: Municipality dedicates events and exhibition to Ludwig Ott
Created: 06/21/2022, 15:06
By: Sandra Sedlmaier
Pöcking in old pictures: The exhibition "The old village" can be seen in the foyer of the Beccult for a week from Monday.
The fact that the old photos have been preserved in this form is also thanks to Ludwig Ott.
© Municipality of Pöcking
A village's past is an important part of its identity.
Pöcking can draw on the work of the author and filmmaker Ludwig Ott.
Now the community remembers Ott's work and dedicates events and exhibitions in the Beccult to him.
Pöcking – How nice when a person's work is recognized while they are still alive.
In 2012, the municipality of Pöcking honored the filmmaker and author Ludwig Ott with the Pöcking Owl, the municipality's highest award - a few weeks before his death in July 2012. Now the municipality is honoring the Pöckinger by choice on the tenth anniversary of his death: with a whole week full of events in the Beccult, with a reading, an exhibition, his three films about the village and a look at the history of Pöcking under National Socialism.
"A jewel." The deputy mayor and cultural adviser Albert Luppart is perfectly clear what the municipality had in Ott: someone who looked at the village, but also classified it.
Ott made three films about Pöcking for Bavarian television, which accompanied its development from a farming village in 1984 to a modern place including a bypass.
"He recorded 25 years of Pöckinger history," says Luppart.
"For us a stroke of luck." Pöcking is very grateful for what Ott left behind.
"Other communities would lick all ten fingers afterwards," Luppart is convinced.
Albert Luppart: "Ludwig Ott was interested in the people, in the courts and in history"
Ott was born in Schlehdorf in 1948, grew up in the Oberland and came to Pöcking in 1974.
He lived in the Linderlhaus, which he later bought and saved from demolition.
In addition to his long-term film documentation about life and changes in Pöcking, the exhibition "The Old Village" and the book "Milli und Sterz", a collection of stories about Pöckinger and the history of Pöcking, were created.
"Ludwig Ott was interested in the people, in the courts and in history," Luppart recalls.
“People felt that.” As a result, they opened their drawers and published old photos, told stories from the past and also from the present.
The Ludwig Ott Week begins with a reading from the book "Milli und Sterz" on Sunday, June 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Beccult.
Actor Dieter Fischer will read the stories, the Tutzinger Stubenmusi will provide the music.
For the exhibition "The Old Village" and the book, Ott worked closely with the local chronicler Leonhard Poelt and Heinz Diehl, says Luppart.
Both will be there on Monday, June 27, from 7.30 p.m. when the exhibition is shown again in the Beccult foyer.
Companions and also Ott's son Johannes will talk about the author's work.
Beccult is showing three films by Ludwig Ott
On Wednesday, June 29, at 6:30 p.m., Ott's three films about Pöcking from 1993, 2000 and 2008 can be seen in the Beccult.
A time when Pöcking experienced massive changes, simply due to the construction of the bypass.
The titles of the films: "From the end of the old days", "From the peasant village to the suburbs" and "A village and its peasants".
"Some of the people in the film have already died, others are still very young," says Luppart, alluding to a young mayor Rainer Schnitzler and to himself, "with a mustache and a teased hairstyle".
The last film ends with the 850th anniversary of Pöcking in 2008. Ott had a crane set up to be able to film in the air.
For Luppart, it was an unforgettable picture of the long table photographed from above for the anniversary celebration.
The last event as part of the Ludwig Ott Week on Friday, July 1st, is dedicated to Pöcking under National Socialism.
The Pöckinger historians Prof. Dr.
Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger deepen the stories handed down in "Milli und Sterz" with finds from archives.
The lecture begins at 7.30 p.m., also in the Beccult.
