Arthur Achleitner

Arthur Achleitner ( born August 16, 1858 in Straubing, † September 29, 1927 in Munich) was a German writer.

Life

Achleitner was the son of Straubinger Stadtpfarrchoralisten Innocent Achleitner. This sent his son very early on the local high school and at the University of Salzburg, to allow him a teacher training course. After the death of his father Achleitner abandoned his studies immediately and traveled much of Europe.

From his first trip along the Rhine and Danube to the Black Sea, he reported almost in exciting feature articles written several major newspapers. He not only financed the trip, but also found the writing. Became aware of this way to him, offered him to 1878, the Süddeutsche Press in Munich at an activity as an editor. Achleitner has held this position until the SP hired her appearance. From then on he lived in Munich as a freelance writer.

As such, he toured in the summer months the mountains of Bavaria into Styria, where he was also an avid hunter, inter alia, in the Wittelsbach and Habsburg hunting grounds a welcome guest. His experiences he thematized in his homeland novels, but particularly in his hunting stories. 1897 awarded him the Duke of Anhalt the title of professor and three years later, in 1900, the title of Privy Councillor. Another three years later, 1903, Achleitner was promoted by the same sovereign to the Privy Councilor. On September 29, 1927, he died neunundsechzigjährig in Munich and found his last resting place in the cemetery Sendlinger.

Works

• Cupid in the Highlands (1899 )
• The Bähnle - Humoristischer Highland Roman ( 1904)
• Stöffele - life image of a Tyrolean hero Priest (1904 )
• Excellence Pokrok (1905 )
• Rock and Firn (1895 )
• Stories of the mountains (1889-1895)
• In the green Tann (1897 )
• Celsissimus (1900)
• Themis in the Mountains ( 1902 )
• The Castle in the Moor ( 1903)
• Themis and Diana (1913 )
• Merry from the life (1919)
• Sketches from Croatia (1920 )