The mountain pastor

Television series
German title	The mountain pastor
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	2004-2005
Production company	Saxonia Media Film Production
length	90 minutes
Episodes	2
genre	Heimatfilm
idea	Lothar Gräner
First broadcast	December 19, 2004 on ZDF
occupation
Stephan Luca : Sebastian Reiter Wolfgang Fierek : Pastor Leonhard Doreen Dietel : Katharina Angerer Laura Borlein : Lena Angerer Traudl Oberhorner : Irmi Angerer Hans Clarin : Bishop Weingärtner Jens-Peter Nünemann : Max Reiter Herman van Ulzen : Joseph Reiter Christiane Blumhoff : Josepha Reiter

Der Bergpfarrer is a television series by ZDF with two episodes that can be assigned to the genre of the homeland film . It was created based on motifs from a series of booklets with the same title. The protagonist is the fictional pastor Sebastian Reiter. The first of the two films was first shown on December 19, 2004. Was directed by Ulrich King in the first and Andi Niessner the second film.

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The young pastor Sebastian Reiter lives in the fictional Bavarian mountain village of St. Florian. One day his childhood sweetheart Katharina stands in front of the door of the church and introduces him to her twelve year old daughter Lena, whose father he may be. This results in some entanglements with Bishop Weingärtner and Leonhard, the pastor of the neighboring parish.

Magazine series

In 2001 the series Der Bergpfarrer: The Good Shepherd of St. Johann started in the Hamburg press publishing house . The series is written by Lothar Gräner (under the pseudonym Toni Waidacher). The protagonist in the series is Sebastian Trenker.

Almost 500 novels have now been published from the series. The second edition, which started before 2004, appears at the same time as the first edition and is around 100 novels (around four years ago). A pocket booklet had 40 issues from 2006 to 2008. Further reprints were published as an anthology and some of them are still running today.

In 2005 and 2006 a book with six novels was published in one volume by Weltbild Verlag .

Web links

• The mountain pastor on fernsehserien.de
• The mountain pastor on bavaria-film.de
• The mountain pastor (2): Homesickness for Hohenau (Bavaria Film) on bavaria-film.de
• Kelter-Verlag, Heimatromane on kelter.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Der Bergpfarrer" from the Heide , Welt online from April 27, 2004, accessed on September 19, 2012.