Rudolf Weilhartner

Rudolf Weilhartner (* 1935 in Zell an der Pram ) is an Austrian author and educator .

Life

As the son of a small farmer, Rudolf Weilhartner attended the Linz Teachers' Training College and studied German and theater studies at the University of Vienna . In addition to his studies, he made attempts to earn a living from activities for the ORF to washing dishes. After a failed attempt as a freelance writer , he became a teacher again after a few years .

Weilhartner mainly writes poetry , but also radio plays and little prose .

In the 1970s and 1980s he was co-editor , editor and author of the Upper Austrian literary magazine Die Rampe , booklets for literature for some time .

In 1993 Balduin Sulzer set a duet entitled Mein Land based on his text.

He is a member of the Innviertel Artists Guild . He was a member of the Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art, Gallery Club of Encounter.

Publications

• Genesis meditation. 1967.
• Snowfields. Poetry, Cultural Office of the City of Linz, Linz 1968.
• National language. Poems, OLV-Buchverlag, Linz 1981, ISBN 3-85214-323-3 .

Awards

• 1979 Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Club of Encounters. Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art, Landeskulturzentrum Ursulinenhof Linz. 1969 - 1984. Editor Lydia Rauch , layout Erich Buchegger , catalog with single sheets of the artists of the association in a cardboard slipcase.
2. ↑ Die Rampe, since 1975, in: literary journals, in: website of the Austrian National Library
3. ^ Mein Land, duet based on a text by Rudolf Weilhartner , in: Web presence of music austria - music information center austria