author
Anton von Perfall
1853–1912
A Bavarian storyteller with a deep love of the countryside, hunting, and local tradition, he wrote popular novels, plays, and sketches that captured rural life in southern Germany. His work belongs to the world of late 19th-century Heimat literature, where landscape, custom, and character are closely tied together.
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Die Hexe von Norderoog
by Anton von Perfall
About the author
Born in Landsberg am Lech in 1853, Anton von Perfall came from an old Bavarian noble family and studied in Munich. He later married the Viennese actress Magda Irschick, and sources note that he traveled with her before settling in Schliersee, where he worked as a freelance writer.
Perfall is remembered as a Bavarian Heimat and hunting writer. Literary reference sources describe an output of roughly twenty novels and dramas along with many widely read hunting tales and sketches, often shaped by a strong interest in rural life and the values of the Bavarian countryside.
He died in Schliersee in 1912. Today he is chiefly known as a regional author whose stories reflect the atmosphere, customs, and landscapes of southern Germany at the turn of the century.