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Thaddäus Troll, actually Hans Bayer (* 18.) March 1914 in Stuttgart-Cannstatt; † July 5, 1980 in Stuttgart, was a German writer and one of the most famous Swabian dialect poets. He wrote essays, columns, glosses, travel and city books, children's books, novels, satires, skits, mouth-art poems, radio and television plays, plays. In addition, several stage arrangements were made, including Parisian Life (1952), comic opera by Jacques Offenbach and 1965 for Erwin Piscator The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk by Jaroslav Hašek.

Live life
Hans Bayer grew up in the Cannstatt district of Stuttgart as the son of a family that ran a soap boiling shop on Marktstraße. He graduated from the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium in 1932. After a short period as a volunteer at the Cannstatter Zeitung, he studied German studies, art history, comparative literary studies and theatre and newspaper studies at the universities in Tübingen, Munich, Halle and Leipzig and was awarded a doctorate in 1938 in Leipzig with the dissertation Press and News of the German prisoners of war prisoners. In Tübingen, Bayer was active in the turnership Palatia, which belonged to the representative convention (abbreviated VC), a corporation association of obligatory and color-bearing student associations. Bayer became a soldier in 1938 and, as a member of a propaganda company, was also deployed on the Eastern Front from 1941. In this capacity, he also wrote texts on anti-Semitic photo reports from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941, in which misery and neglect of the inhabitants were displayed and mocked with anti-Semitic clichés. Bayer's contributions arrived: In the reports from the Reich in February 1943, a war report from his pen was counted among those with the best reception among the population, since it gave an example in the attitude of the soldiers and new confidence in the unbrokenness of the front line. Under the heading “True to the Last Breath” in March 1943, he addressed the destruction of the 6th German Army in Stalingrad in an officially desired, euphemistic Nazi propaganda style. An exhibition that deals with this so far little-lit phase in Bayer’s life and work was first shown in the Topography of Terror in Berlin in 2014. The marriage concluded in 1945 with the journalist Elfriede Berger resulted in the daughter Eva-Suzanne. After a few years, the couple divorced and Bayer married the journalist Susanne Ulrici. He had two daughters with her.

Already in 1945, during his brief internment in the Putlos prisoner-of-war camp set up by the British in Schleswig-Holstein, he was able to build on his journalist training by managing the camp theater and the camp newspaper. After the dismissal he became employee of Spiegel in 1947, for which he soon and until 1