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Rosegger had only irregular schooling. During his childhood and youth he worked as a guardian. He learned to read and write from a retired school teacher. Between 1860 and 1863 he completed an apprenticeship as a tailor. Rosegger acquired his education self-taught. At the age of 16 he tried to publish his first literary works in the "Grazer Zeitung". In 1864 he was given an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Laibach. From 1865 to 1869 he received training at the Academy of Commerce and Industry. With his first book successes, Peter Rosegger decided to pursue writing full-time.

The well-known Prague publisher Gustav Heckenast not only published Rosegger's works, but was also his liberal-minded mentor. In the years 1870 and 1872 the writer made various trips to Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. In 1867 he met Adalbert Stifter during a visit. Peter Rosegger was a prolific writer. Almost all of his short stories are about the home landscape in Styria and its farming society. The writer traces these in an idealizing manner and equipped with archetypes. One of his basic keywords is "forest", which can be found in the headings and subtitles of the issues as well as in the theming of the content.

Rosegger often talks about his childhood in a transfiguring way. In 1876 Rosegger moved to Graz. There he became editor of the monthly magazine "Heimgarten". With his stories of country life he follows the tradition of Berthold Auerbach's village history. They are connected with the intention of enlightenment and popular education. The social democratic-pacifist-minded Peter Rosegger also traced this intention in his works. In addition, the Austrian writer Ludwig Anzengruber was a literary role model for him from whom he was inspired. Faced with the threat to peasant culture and forest landscapes, Rosegger developed an ideology of homeland and peasantry that is easily open to abusive interpretations.

Rosegger wrote many of his works in dialect. The writer saw country life and the forest landscape as an alternative to modern industrial society. Rosegger often published his own works under the pseudonym "Petri Katten Feier". After the turn of the century, the writer received numerous international honors, including honorary doctorates. His autobiographical titles such as "The Writings of the Forest Schoolmaster" (1875) and "Waldheimat" (1877) as well as the stories "Stories from Styria" (1871), "Stories from the Alps" (1873) and "When I was still Forest farmer's boy was" (1902).

His other works include titles such as "Zither and Dulcimer" (1870), "In der Einöde" (1872), "Jakob the Last" (1889), "Idylls from a Ending World" (1899), "Erdsegen" (1900 ), "World Poison" (1903) or "Collected Works" (1913-1916).

Peter Rosegger died on June 26, 1918 in Krieglach in Styria.

Filmography

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Year

Blessings of the Earth TV Movie1986

Die Försterbuben TV Movie1984

Der Waldbauernbub TV Movie1983

Waldheimat TV Series1983

Kabarett zu den vier Jahreszeiten TV Series1979

Jakob der Letzte TV Movie1976

Am Tage des Gerichts TV Movie1965

Als ich beim Käthele im Wald war Feature Film1963

Aus meiner Waldheimat Feature Film1963

Die lustige Wallfahrt TV Movie1963

Als ich noch der Waldbauernbub war... Poster

Als ich noch der Waldbauernbub war... TV Series1960

Wir warten auf's Christkind TV Series1960

Die fröhliche Wallfahrt Feature Film1956

Die Försterbuben Feature Film1955

Das Siegel Gottes Feature Film1949

Crown of Thorns Feature Film1923

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