Ludwig Strecker

Ludwig Strecker Jr., also Ludwig Strecker der Jüngere, (13 January 188315 September 1978) was a German music publisher and an author of opera librettos which he wrote under the pen name Ludwig Andersen. He authored, and published through the Schott Music publishing house, two of the most successful German contemporary operas of the 1930s, Egk's Die Zaubergeige and Reutter's Doktor Johannes Faust.

Life Born Ludwig Emanuel Strecker in Mainz, he was interested in poetry and literature early in life.

Strecker's first wife was Friedel Preetorius (1884–1938), the daughter of the Mainz entrepreneur and politician . , based on "Hans My Hedgehog". Music: Cesar Bresgen. Premiere 1948 Esslingen, revised version 1951 Staatstheater Nürnberg.