author
Arthur Achleitner
1858–1927
Best known for vivid Alpine tales, this German writer helped shape the mountain novel with stories full of regional life, local character, and a strong sense of place. His work ranges across Bavaria, the Austrian Alps, and parts of the former Austro-Hungarian world.
5 Audiobooks
Aus Kroatien: Skizzen und Erzählungen
by Arthur Achleitner
Bergrichters Erdenwallen
by Arthur Achleitner
Im grünen Tann
by Arthur Achleitner
Celsissimus: Salzburger Roman
by Arthur Achleitner
Unter den Hohen Tauern: Ein Roman aus der Steiermark
by Arthur Achleitner
About the author
Born in Straubing on August 16, 1858, Arthur Achleitner became a German writer, journalist, and editor. Reference sources agree on his life dates and identify him as a prolific author whose career was closely tied to popular regional writing.
He is especially remembered for describing the customs, landscapes, and everyday life of people in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps, and also in Mediterranean parts of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, including Croatia and Bosnia. Bavarian literary sources credit him with writing more than 100 novels and stories and with helping establish the Hochgebirgsroman, or high-mountain novel.
Achleitner died in Munich on September 29, 1927. Though not as widely known internationally today, he remains an interesting figure in German-language popular literature for the way he turned local settings and folk culture into adventurous, atmospheric fiction.