Erwin Riess

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Erwin Riess (2017)

Erwin Riess (born March 13, 1957 in Vienna ) is an Austrian political scientist and journalist ; He has been a wheelchair user since 1983 , is a disabled activist and has been a freelance writer since 1994 . He writes plays, radio plays, scripts and prose.

Life

After finishing school in Krems , Lower Austria , studied Riess at the Vienna University of Politics and Theater Studies , was founded in 1984 at the Institute of Political Science with a thesis on economic and governmental structures of the Austrian capitalism in elevation to Dr. phil. doctorate and initially worked as a publishing editor .

After a spinal cord tumor himself a wheelchair user, he is committed to the causes of disabled people in society. From 1984 to 1994 he was a scientific advisor for handicapped-accessible building in the Austrian Ministry of Economics . He is involved in EUCREA, the European network for creativity by and for people with disabilities. In 1998, 2000 and 2002 he was visiting professor for integration education at the University of Klagenfurt .

He has lived as a freelance writer since 1994. He became known as a playwright and author of absurd crime novels. In 1998 he was Writer in Residence at New York University . He writes u. a. regularly for the left-wing magazines Volksstimme and specifically and in the left-wing newspaper Junge Welt , in which he regularly reports from Austria under the title "Correspondent Groll".

Erwin Riess, who has lived in Vienna and Carinthia since 2007, is also politically active and ran for the KPÖ Plus in the 2017 National Council election .

Scholarships and Awards

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His style is characterized by subtle wit and an omnipresent reckoning with the ignorance of society, which seems to have remained unfamiliar with the word accessibility, which has risen to the point of sarcasm . His figure of the Floridsdorf wheelchair user and ship fanatic Groll (in short stories and meanwhile five novels) fights against this blindness, which is widespread among architects and politicians alike, in absurd situations. However, it is not due to the main character's handicap that the strange orders that Groll receives from New York-domiciled Italian Giordano each end disastrously: Rather, one can observe in the stories how one individual with humor and above all inexhaustible perseverance against it the unfair rage of fate and assert oneself in the obstacle course of everyday life.

Works

  • Shorts . One piece, 1993.
  • Mr. Grudge experiences the world. In a wheelchair through paralyzed times . Stories, 1996.
  • Giordano's order . Roman, 1999.
  • Herr Grillparzer takes heart and takes a Danube steamer to the Black Sea . 2000.
  • Local history Austria . Essays, 2003.
  • Pieces 1994-2004 . Plays, 2004.
  • Don Pasquale's last wish . Roman, 2006.
  • Mr. Grudge while traveling . Stories, 2008.
  • Mr. Grudge and the red stream. Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7013-1170-5 .
  • Mr. Grudge in the shadow of the Karawanken. Investigations in Carinthia. Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7013-1192-7 .
  • Mr. Groll and the end of the Wachau , Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7013-1221-4 .
  • Mr. Groll and the rapids of the Tiber , Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7013-1254-2 .
  • Mr. Groll and the Danube Pirates , Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7013-1272-6 .

literature

  • Andreas Klimt (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2008/2009, Volume 2, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-23592-4 , p. 1073.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EUCREA - European Network on Creativity by and for Disabled Persons
  2. ↑ Florian Gasser: Said with resentment (interview). In: Die Zeit , August 9, 2012.
  3. ↑ See for example: A party is buried [SPÖ], in: Junge Welt, April 29, 2019.
  4. ^ KPÖ : KPÖ PLUS: Erwin Riess and Ernest Kaltenegger on ballot papers ; Retrieved Nov. 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Riess, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria