Franz Rieger (writer)

Franz Rieger (born January 23, 1923 in Riedau , Upper Austria , Austria; † June 11, 2005 in Oftering , Upper Austria, Austria) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Franz Rieger was born on January 23, 1923 as the son of a teacher in Riedau. He attended the Petrinum boys' boarding school in Linz . In 1938, with the annexation of Austria to the German Reich , he came to Passau to the humanistic high school and worked in the financial service.

In 1941 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and in 1942 at the front. In 1944 he became an American prisoner of war. When he was released from captivity in 1946 and returned to Austria, he worked as a tax officer again.

In 1951 he married and had two sons. From 1955 until his retirement in 1983 he was a librarian in the libraries of the city of Linz.

Rieger lived withdrawn; when asked about it, he quoted Hermann Hesse : " Strange to wander in the fog, life is loneliness, nobody knows the other, everyone is alone ... "

Prof. Franz Rieger died on June 11, 2005 in Oftering after a long illness.

power

He achieved national fame and recognition mainly with the novel Schattenschweigen or Hartheim , a subtle confrontation with the Nazi killing center Hartheim near Eferding.

Descriptions of landscapes, the foreign, the war and its consequences are recurring elements in his novels, stories, radio plays and in his poetry.

Works

• A duel . Culture Office Linz. 1964
• The landau . Europa Verlag 1973. ISBN 3-203-50499-5
• Dirt roads . Europa Verlag 1976. ISBN 3-203-50587-8
• Meanwhile, Karman . Benziger Verlag 1979. ISBN 3-545-36311-2
• Quadruple house . Benziger Verlag, 1981. ISBN 3-545-36337-6
• Shadow silence or Hartheim . Roman, St. Benno Verlag 1985. ISBN 3-85252-496-2 . New edition Weitra: Publication PN ° 1. Provincial Library, 2002. ISBN 3-85252-496-2 ; 2nd edition 2015. ISBN 978-3-85252-496-2
• Boarding school in L. Styria 1986. ISBN 3-222-11697-0
• Impossible approach . Styria 1990. ISBN 3-222-11979-1
• Querland: seven presentations of a fall in landscape . Linz-Weitra [u. a.]: Verl. Publication PN ° 1. Provincial Library, 1990. ISBN 3-900878-52-8
• America diary
• The hurricane . Roman, Weitra: Publication P No 1, 1993. ISBN 3-900878-00-5
• At the gate of my mouth . Poems; 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, Weitra: Library of the Province 1994. ISBN 3-85252-037-1
• Except-Far: between the years 1944 - 1947 . Roman, Weitra: Verl. Publication PN ° 1. Provincial Library, 1995. ISBN 3-85252-057-6
• Around him . Stories, Weitra: Verl. Publication PN ° 1. Library d. Province, 1995. ISBN 3-85252-061-4
• The patriarch and me . Graz / Vienna [u. a.]: Styria, 1995. ISBN 3-222-12340-3
• Meat like grass . Story, Vienna / Linz / Weitra [u. a.]: Publication PN ° 1. Library d. Province, 1997. ISBN 3-85252-171-8
• The indispensable powerlessness . Roman, Weitra: Publication PN ° 1. Library d. Province, 1999. ISBN 3-85252-302-8
• Disappear in the dark . Reader 1963-2002; Prose and Poetry [ed. by Alfred Pittertschatscher], Weitra: Verl. Publication PN ° 1. Library d. Province, 2002. ISBN 3-85252-497-0
• Straw horses . Roman [ed. by Richard Pils], Weitra: Verl. Publication PN ° 1. Library d. Province, 2003. ISBN 3-85252-259-5

Awards

• Culture Prize of the State of Upper Austria for Literature (1975)
• Koref Prize (1987)
• Heinrich Gleißner Prize (1993)
• Adalbert Stifter Prize (1999)
• Culture Medal of the Province of Upper Austria (2003)

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Rieger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Franz Rieger
• Appreciation by Governor Pühringer
• Franz Rieger works by Franz Rieger published by the Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz in the Bibliothek der Provinz