biography
| name: |
Ganghofer, Ludwig Albert
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pronunciation:
[gahnghofair]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1855–1920)
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| biography:
| Bavarian popular writer, born in Kaufbeuren, S Germany. He worked as theatrical manager with the Ringtheater in Vienna and as feuilleton editor for the Neues Wiener Tagblatt before moving to Bavaria and taking up writing. A friend of Thoma, alongside folk plays and poems he wrote more than 50 novels describing Alpine life in romantic terms. Among the best known are Der Jäger von Fall (1883), Edelweißkönig (1886), Oberland (1887), Der Klosterjäger (1892), Die Martinsklause (1894), Schloß Hubertus (1895), Der laufende Berg (1897), Das Gotteslehen (1899), Der Dorfapostel (1900), Der Hohe Schein (1904), Der Mann im Salz (1906), and Der Ochsenkrieg (1914). |
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