Films by Heiko Arendt

Germany 2019, 80 min
by Heiko Arendt

Born in 1922, Ernst Ludwig “Lux” Oswalt was the son of Ernst and Wilhelmine Oswalt, proprietors of the publishing house Rütten & Loening, which also published “Struwwelpeter”. Although he came from a Jewish family in Frankfurt, he was baptised in the Protestant church. Later, he was closely connected to St. Peter’s parish in Frankfurt, where he also worked as a leader for the church youth group and was himself confirmed in 1936. In spite of the fact they had been Protestants for two generations