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Ernst Hinterberger

エルンスト・ヒンターべルガー

Ernsuto Hintāberugā

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1931-10-17 (Vienna)
Died
2012-05-14 (Vienna) age 80
Nationality
Austrian
Languages
German, Wienerisch
Religion
Buddhism
Residence History
Vienna (Margaretengürtel)

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Electrician, Police officer (training), Librarian, Factory worker
Active Years
1965-2012
Influenced By
Oskar Maria Graf

Education

Vienna Police School
Police Training
Period: 1950-1952
Year of Graduation: 1952
Country: Austria
Left early due to need for glasses
City of Vienna's Library School
Library Science
Period: 1958
Year of Graduation: 1958
Country: Austria
Worked as librarian for 10 years in adult education centres

Awards

City of Vienna Achievement Award
1971
Organization: City of Vienna
Result: 受賞
Anton Wildgans Prize of Austrian Industry
1974
Work: Wer fragt nach uns
Organization: Austrian Industry
Result: 受賞
Golden Romy
1993
Organization: Kurier TV Star
Result: 受賞
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
1994
Organization: Austrian Government
Result: 受賞
Gold Award for Service of the City of Vienna
1996
Organization: City of Vienna
Result: 受賞
Ehrenkieberer
2001
Organization: Vereinigung der Bundeskriminalbeamten Österreichs
Result: 受賞
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
2003
Organization: Austrian Government
Result: 受賞
Goldener Rathausmann
2007
Organization: City of Vienna
Result: 受賞
Buchliebling Lifetime Award
2009
Result: 受賞
Axel Corti Prize
2010
Category: 生涯功労
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter

1975 Sitcom

Popular sitcom using genuine Vienna dialect, featuring Edmund 'Mundl' Sackbauer.

Viennese lower class lifeVienna dialectMiddle-class struggles
Adaptations
  • [Film] Echte Wiener – Die Sackbauer-Saga (2008)

Kaisermühlen-Blues

1992 Sitcom

64-episode sitcom leading to spin-off Trautmann.

Viennese lifeEveryday humor

Beweisaufnahme

1965 Novel

Early novel.

Salz der Erde

1966 Novel

Depicts midlife crisis.

Midlife crisisFamily relations

Bibliography

  • Beweisaufnahme (1965)
  • Salz der Erde (1966)
  • Wer fragt nach uns (1975)
  • Das Abbruchhaus (1977)
  • Jogging (1984)
  • Superzwölfer (1988)
  • Kleine Leute (1989)
  • Das fehlende W (1991)
  • Und über uns die Heldenahnen (1992)
  • Alleingang (1993)
  • Kleine Blumen (1993)
  • Von furzenden Pferden, Ausland und Inländern (1993)
  • Zahltag (1997)
  • Die dunkle Seite (1998)
  • Ein Abschied. Lebenserinnerungen (2002)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Use of genuine Vienna dialectRealismSatire
Recurring Motifs
Lower-class lifeViennese cultureEveryday struggles

Health

  • Lung damage
    晩年(工場労働による)
    Lung damage from factory work.

Legacy

Known for works in Vienna dialect, creating the iconic Viennese everyman in the German-speaking world.

In Popular Culture

  • Sackbauer character typifies the Viennese renter

Trivia

  • Father was an unemployed typesetter who died when he was 7.
  • Lived in a 44 m² city-owned flat in Vienna since ~1954.
  • First wife Margarete ('Gerti') died after 45 years of marriage in 2001; remarried to Karla in 2004.
  • Wrote poems in Chinese style, never published in German.
  • Cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, ashes in Vienna Central Cemetery.