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050 4 _aPT
100 1 _aGanghofer, Ludwig,
_d1855-1920
245 1 4 _aDer laufende Berg
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-20
508 _aRichard Illner, Michael John and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Der laufende Berg" by Ludwig Ganghofer is a novel written in the early 20th century. It portrays an Alpine community threatened by a slow, relentless landslide, focusing on the proud landowner and hunter Toni Purtscheller, the steadfast smallholder Michel Simmerauer with his children Mathes and Vroni, and the feckless Daxen-Schorschl as nature, pride, and loyalty collide. Expect vivid mountain atmosphere, village life, and a tense struggle between holding on and letting go. The opening of the novel paints a radiant autumn morning veiled by drifting spider-silk, then reveals a mountainside that is literally “running”: earth splits, trees tilt, and water murmurs underground. Toni Purtscheller descends through the damaged forest, bristles at city experts surveying the slide, and meets the old Michel Simmerauer, whose homestead is sinking; though Toni urges evacuation and offers help, Michel vows to stay. At the Simmerauer place, the family—Mathes ramming piles, Vroni hewing stakes, and mother Katherl sawing—fights the ground’s creep with a timber framework while animals fret and muddy water seeps up. Purtscheller admires Vroni and tries to hire Mathes; the carefree Daxen-Schorschl crashes in with news of a great stag, drawing Toni off to hunt, then awkwardly offers help and is rebuffed by Vroni. The scene shifts to evening at the Purtscheller farm: Karlin tends her frail child, recalls childhood bonds with Mathes and Vroni as she sings a lullaby, and an ominous death’s-head moth flits by, while the distant rush of water under the mountain underscores the village’s growing unease. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBerlin: Th. Knaur Nachf., 1920
653 _aBavaria (Germany) -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/derlaufendeberg0000unse/
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77988
999 _c118708
_d118708