Abstract: A apparatus for the production of a vertical lift movement of a continuous casting ingot mold for metal, especially steel, consisting of at least one mechanical drive element which can be adjusted in its lifting height and which produces an adjustable oscillation. The drive element is supported by a foundation and makes contact with an continuous casting ingot mold. The drive element, at least one of which is provided, has a rotary plate inclined to the longitudinal axis at an adjustable angle about a swivel axis. On the side facing the direction of lift and outside the axis of rotation of the plate 20, one end of a rod is situated, the other end of the rod being situated in an element which supports the mold.