The simplicity of his narrative combined with a kind sense of humour and his ever present meditative thoughtfulness were to be the author's characteristic qualities. His writing draws from the immediate, the sensuous experience of his rural environment reflected in its everday ocurrence. K. H. Waggerl also committed himself to some of the public agenda in the municipality of Wagrain (association work, evolution of tourism, he became eventually mayor of Wagrain in 1940). Waggerl did not oppose the National Socialists efforts to claim his works.

In the aftermath of World War II he engaged in numerous public readings throughout Austria, Germany and Switzerland and thus became known to a wider public. As for his style Waggerl then increasingly turned to the forms of small prose. His books have sold more than five million copies and have been translated into more than a dozen languages.Among his further writings are: "Wagrainer Tagebuch"-1936, "Heiteres Herbarium"1950, "Liebe Dinge"1956, "Das ist die stillste Zeit im Jahr"-1956

K. H. Waggerl died on Nov4 th 1973 in a road accident. Another passion of K. H. Waggerl was photography. Some of his pictures (see act above) were only found in recent years in the Waggerl-Haus when this was built into a museum.