Peter Szivatz

Peter Szivatz (born September 6, 1940 in Vienna ; † August 5, 1979 in Vienna) was an Austrian journalist and writer .

biography

Peter Szivatz was born in Vienna in 1940. He attended the Realgymnasium in Waltergasse in Vienna - Wieden , where his German teacher Ernst Jandl was. After graduating from high school, he worked as a journalist for the daily Express in the cultural department. Then at the Neue Zeitung , where he also worked as a courtroom reporter. These newspapers did not outlast the concentration tendencies in the print media sector for long and were bought up or discontinued. Peter Szivatz became a freelance journalist and was unemployed. He died in Vienna in 1979. His novel Kipfler was only published posthumously. He was the father of two daughters.

Works

• Kipfler. The novel of the highly disconcerting life of the higher regional judge Dr. Theodor Kipfler-Schnurpfeil and his no less astonishing brother Leopold, called Poldo, along with the dignified ladies Henriette, a remarkable legal intern, various other contemporaries and the thoughtful editor Alois Schneewandl , Roman, Wiener Journal Zeitschriftenverlags Ges.mbH [Edition Atelier], Vienna 1988 , ISBN 3-900379-28-9