Ernst Hinterberger

Ernst Leopold Hinterberger (born October 17, 1931 in Vienna ; † May 14, 2012 there ) was an Austrian writer and screenwriter .

Life

Vienna Central Cemetery - honorary grave of Ernst Hinterberger

Ernst Hinterberger, who was seven years old when his father died, was a trained electrician. In 1950 he began training as a security guard at the Vienna Police School , which he had to break off prematurely in 1952 due to a sudden visual impairment. After that he first worked as a laborer . In 1958 he married and attended the library school of the municipality of Vienna, after which he worked for ten years as a library manager in popular education centers. After closure of these libraries in 1968, he was until his retirement in 1991 as a clerk working in a factory.

Ernst Hinterberger found his way to literature in the 1950s through the Bavarian author Oskar Maria Graf .

Hinterberger had lived in a 44-square-meter community apartment on Vienna's Margaretengürtel ( 5th district ) since around 1954 . This building was named after him on September 24, 2013 and has been called "Ernst-Hinterberger-Hof" ever since. His first wife, Margarete ("Gerti"), died in 2001 nine months before the publication of his book Ein Abschied. Life memories. (2002). In his second marriage, Hinterberger was married to Karla, with whom he had lived since 2004.

The practicing Buddhist Ernst Hinterberger died on May 14, 2012 in the Hietzing Hospital . On June 12, 2012, his urn was buried in an honorary grave in the Ehrenhain (group 40, no. 184) of the Vienna Central Cemetery. In 2014, Ernst-Hinterberger-Gasse was named after him in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) .

Works

"A real Viennese does not go under"

Hinterberger's Edmund "Mundl" Sackbauer, (anti) hero of the television series A real Viennese does not go under , became the epitome of tenants in a Viennese apartment building in the German-speaking world .

The "TV Mundl" is actually a deeply hearted complainer who gives in again and again, while the original character in the book The Salt of the Earth from the mid-1960s is a disgusting man in his midlife crisis who ends on vacation in Italy realizes that his control over the family is waning. At the end of the work he leaves the woman who wants to be in " Puff again get his confidence," denied prompt it, and the book ends with the protagonist that not sure is whether he, the accused from him because of his crash Gunstgewerblerin in Affect killed or whether it survived injured. Hinterberger competed for the Roman State Prize for 1967 with The Salt of the Earth . However, Thomas Bernhard received the award for this year .

The series about the working class Sackbauer family, which was first broadcast on ORF on June 8, 1975 , with the original "Mundl", an electrician from Favoriten , played by Karl Merkatz and rumbling in a broad Viennese dialect , polarized the audience. ORF customer service then countless "audience reactions from irate rejection" went - especially from the represented workers in layers - "to enthusiastic approval" on the portrayal of the family Sackbauer one. In later times, the series itself, like the saying "Mundls", gained cult status .

In 2008 the film for the series was released under the title Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga ; the script came from Ernst Hinterberger.

Trautmann and other commissioners

Hinterberger wrote his first detective novel in 1984 with the title Jogging. At the time, there was a project where writers who normally don't write crime stories tried their hand at crime stories. Through his work in the police service, Hinterberger already had a lot of background knowledge about criminal cases and investigations.

A chief inspector named Dörfler appeared in Jogging ; an elderly gentleman who only has a year or two left before retirement. Like all other police officers at Hinterberger in Vienna's 2nd district, Leopoldstadt . Hinterberger later invented the inspector Otto Hotwagner. He was also of an advanced age, but was highly regarded by his colleagues.

In the novel Payday from 1997, Hinterberger let his inspector Hotwagner die of a stroke , whereupon the only slightly younger Polycarp Trautmann took over the post and investigated it for the first time in a detective novel in 1998 in The Dark Side . Trautmann has his heart in the right place and always investigates a few meters from the designated official route. The character of Trautmann was already known from the popular ORF series Kaisermühlen Blues and was played by Wolfgang Böck .

When Hinterberger wanted to end Kaisermühlen-Blues in 1999 , the ORF asked for a script for a spin-off series. Hinterberger and director Harald Sicheritz decided on the character of Trautmann and in 2000 produced a 90-minute TV crime thriller with the title Who is tricky, remains.

The production should have been an Austrian contribution to the German crime series “Tatort” . Because of the allegedly incomprehensible Viennese dialect in Germany , the episode was canceled shortly before it was first broadcast on German television. In Austria, however, the crime thriller was a complete success, and so other episodes were produced with renowned actors such as Erwin Steinhauer , Wolfram Berger , Simon Schwarz , Heinz Petters and Beatrice Frey .

From episode 2 on, Thomas Roth took over the direction, as Sicherheitsitz had a serious traffic accident. Since Roth allegedly began to change more and more of the scripts over time, Hinterberger drew the consequences after episode 10 and ended the collaboration with ORF. Since then, Hinterberger has used the character of Inspector Trautmann more frequently in his books.

Books

• 1965: Evidence , novel
• 1966: Salt of the Earth , novel
• 1973: A cozy Viennese novel
• 1975: Who asks about us , stories
• 1977: The demolished house , novel
• 1984: jogging , detective novel
• 1988: Super Zwölfer , detective novel
• 1989: Little People , Roman
• 1991: The Missing W , detective novel
• 1992: And about us the hero ancestors ... , detective novel
• 1993: Going it alone , detective novel
• 1993: Little Flowers , detective novel
• 1993: About farting horses, foreign and domestic , stories
• 1994: Kaisermühlen Blues: A Viennese novel
• 1995: What was, always will be , detective novel
• 1997: Payday , detective novel
• 1998: The Dark Side , detective novel
• 2002: a farewell. Life memories.
• 2005: double murder , detective novel
• 2006: The Dead Lives , detective novel
• 2007: Murder in the Prater , detective novel
• 2008: Death plays along , detective novel
• 2009: Missing fingers , detective novel
• 2010: Murderous Greed , detective novel
• 2011: Blutreigen , detective novel
• 2012: Death is Harvesting , detective novel

Filmography

• 1975: Brief Thousand Years (TV Play)
• 1975–1979: A real Viennese does not go under (TV series)
• 1980: A Sunday Child (TV movie)
• 1982: The end can also be a beginning (TV movie)
• 1985: Tatort - hit and run (TV series)
• 1986: Tatort - Going it alone (TV series)
• 1987: Tatort - Super Twelve (TV series)
• 1991: Hansi Vrba, Inländerfreund (TV movie)
• 1992–1999: Kaisermühlen Blues (TV series)
• 2000: Trautmann - 1. Whoever is tricky is left (TV series; originally filmed as an Austrian crime scene episode)
• 2001: Trautmann - 2. Nothing is so finely spun (TV series)
• 2002: Trautmann - 3. The last shirt has no pockets (TV series)
• 2003: Trautmann - 4th life sentence (TV series)
• 2004: Trautmann - 5. The game is over (TV series)
• 2004: Trautmann - 6. Everything as it is (TV series)
• 2004: Trautmann - 7th heavyweight (TV series)
• 2004: Trautmann - 8. 71 days (TV series)
• 2006: Trautmann - 9th Boomerang (TV series)
• 2008: Trautmann - 10. The Hanno-Herz-Story (TV series)

Stage plays

• In the cage
• It's always not Sunday
• The doll
• Open Society
• Swimming pool

Quotes

On the subject of how he found Buddhism:

"I picked up where I read that Marlon Brando reads Laotse , and then I woke up when he reads this, then I can tell."

On the topic that Hinterberger could buy a house immediately:

“The [the small community apartment] is sufficient for two heads. […] I'm not interested in this [a house]. I grew up in a back yard 200 meters from here. I only raised roofs there. Otherwise I was on the Gossn. That's why a garden doesn't matter to me. Oda nature ... Yes, the trees are green. I also like it when there are kane leaves on it. "

On the subject of his place of residence, from which moving away had never crossed his mind:

“I grew up in the Grätzel , this is my home. Döbling, Währing, Hietzing: That’s abroad. For me, Vienna is the fifth district. "

Awards

The municipal housing named after him in 2013 at the address Margaretengürtel 122–124

• 1971: Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
• 1974: Anton Wildgans Prize of Austrian Industry for Who Asks About Us
• 1993: Golden Romy of the Kurier TV star election
• 1995: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
• 1996: Gold Medal of Merit of the City of Vienna
• 2001: Ehrenkieberer , appointed by the Association of Federal Criminal Investigators in Austria, together with Wolfgang Böck
• 2003: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 2007: Golden City Hall Man of the City of Vienna
• 2009: Book Favorite - Lifetime Award for his life's work
• 2010: Axel Corti Prize for his life's work
• 2013: The previously unnamed community building in Vienna 5th, Margaretengürtel 122–124, where Hinterberger lived for 56 years, was named Ernst-Hinterberger-Hof .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Hinterberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ernst Hinterberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ernst Hinterberger in: ORF Customer Service - Stars on ORF.
• Martin Betz: Interview with Ernst Hinterberger. In: The rest is history [...] working conditions of screenwriters. Diploma thesis at the University of Music and Performing Arts , Vienna 2000.
• Portrait on the occasion of Ernst Hinterberger's 75th birthday. In: Falter, No. 42/2006, October 18, 2006 ( Memento of March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• "Look at the people". In: Datum , No. 05/08. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
• Between popular enlightenment and commerce: On the popular writer Ernst Hinterberger.
• Archive recordings with Ernst Hinterberger in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (interviews, literature readings)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Hinterberger is 75. In: wien. ORF .at, October 14, 2006. Accessed May 2, 2010.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Stars on ORF: Ernst Hinterberger.
3. ↑ ^{a b} date, 05/08.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Right in the middle of real life - at home with Ernst Hinterberger. ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Wien live, June 2009. Retrieved on May 2, 2010. 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Betz, 2000.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Falter, 42/2006.
7. ^ ^{A b} Peter Landerl: Book review and reading rehearsal for Ernst Hinterberger - A farewell. Life memories. In: Review database of the Literaturhaus Wien, September 30, 2002. Retrieved on May 2, 2010.
8. ^ Viennese author Ernst Hinterberger died. In: Der Standard , May 14, 2012.
9. ↑ Author Ernst Hinterberger has died.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary by echomedia publishing house, May 14, 2012.  
10. ↑ Olaf Lahayne: insulted Austria !: The scandal surrounding the State Prize speech Thomas Bernhard in March 1968. . V&R unipress, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8471-0489-6 .
11. ↑ Nomen est omen: “A real Viennese does not go under”: ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “The ORF cult series is celebrating its Da Capo […].” In: enterprise.ORF.at, October 28, 2009. Accessed on August 22, 2012.  
12. ↑ The last craftsman. In: ECHO Salzburg people (via Karl Merkatz), September 1, 2007. Accessed August 22, 2012.
13. ^ Ernst Hinterberger - Double Murder (November 16, 2005). In: Amazon. Accessed January 31, 2019 (German). 
14. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany: THIS WEEK ON TELEVISION - DER SPIEGEL 17/1975. Retrieved May 20, 2017 . 
15. ↑ DRA: Online Services | TV games | Full information. Retrieved May 20, 2017 . 
16. ↑ DRA: Online Services | TV games | Full information. Retrieved May 20, 2017 . 
17. ^ "Mundl" author Ernst Hinterberger honored for life's work. In: Die Presse / APA , April 16, 2009. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
18. ^ Corti Prize to Ernst Hinterberger. ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Salzburger Nachrichten , April 7, 2010. Accessed May 2, 2010. 
19. ^ A court for a real Viennese , website of the daily newspaper Kurier , Vienna, September 24, 2013