The invention relates to an elevator system (1), comprising an elevator cab (3), a supporting-means arrangement (5), and a drive arrangement (7). The supporting-means arrangement (5) has at least one elongate supporting means (31) for holding the elevator cab (3). The at least one supporting means is flexibly bendable in the transverse direction. The drive arrangement (7) is used to drive the supporting-means arrangement (5) and has a motor (8), a traction sheave (9), which is driven about an axis of rotation (10) by the motor (8), and at least two main deflection sheaves (11, 13). The supporting-means arrangement (5) is guided by the driving arrangement (7) in such a way that the at least one supporting means (31) first partially wraps around a first (11) of the main deflection sheaves (11, 13), then partially wraps around the traction sheave (9), and then partially wraps around a second (13) of the main deflection sheaves (11, 13) and the supporting means (5) is bent in the same direction in each instance o
