Ludwig Friedrich Barthel (12 June 1898, in

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– 14 February 1962, in

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) was a German writer. Barthel served in the

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and was a student in Munich. He was later an archivist (german: link=no, 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

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, 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).

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*Christian Zentner, Friedemann Bedürftig (1991). ''

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