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==Life==
==Life==
Ernst Hinterberger was born and died in [[Vienna]]. He was the son of an unemployed typesetter, who died when Ernst was seven.<ref name=ORF>[http://wien.orf.at/stories/143602/ "Ernst Hinterberger wird 75"] (Ernst Hinterberger turns 75), [[Österreichischer Rundfunk]], 14 October 2006, retrieved 21 June 2010.</ref> He completed training as an electrician, then from 1950 to 1952 he trained at the Vienna Police School to be a police officer, but had to leave a few weeks after beginning work because he suddenly needed glasses, which was not acceptable at the time.<ref name=Betz>Martin Betz, [http://www.martinbetz.at/diplom/hinterberger.htm Interview: Ernst Hinterberger (September 1998)], ''Der Rest ist Geschichte: Arbeitsbedingungen von Drehbuchautoren'', thesis, [[University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna]], 2000, retrieved 21 June 2010.</ref> Following his time with the police, he first worked as a labourer.<ref name=ORF/> In 1958 he married and attended the City of Vienna's Library School, following which he worked for ten years as a librarian in adult education centres.<ref name=Salzburger>[http://www.salzburg.com/online/nachrichten/kultur/Corti-Preis-an-Ernst-Hinterberger.html?article=eGMmOI8V4YJj7iFIXvoReAKJb3djQDmDTe7zZaY&img=&text=&mode=& "Corti-Preis an Ernst Hinterberger"], ''[[Salzburger Nachrichten]]'' 7 April 2010, retrieved 21 June 2010.</ref> After these libraries were closed in 1968, he worked in shipping in a factory until his retirement in 1991. He was unwilling to rely on writing to provide his entire income.<ref name=Betz/> He has lung damage from the factory work.<ref name=Falter>[http://www.falter.at/web/print/detail.php?id=365 "Buddhas Haberer: Mundl-Erfinder, Fabriksarbeiter, Krimiautor, Ehrenkieberer: Der Urwiener Ernst Hinterberger feiert dieser Tage seinen 75. Geburtstag. Ein Porträt"], ''[[Falter]]'' 18 October 2006</ref>
Ernst Hinterberger was born and died in [[Vienna]]. He was the son of an unemployed typesetter, who died when Ernst was seven.<ref name=ORF>[http://wien.orf.at/stories/143602/ "Ernst Hinterberger wird 75"] (Ernst Hinterberger turns 75), [[Österreichischer Rundfunk]], 14 October 2006, retrieved 21 June 2010.</ref> He completed training as an electrician, then from 1950 to 1952 he trained at the Vienna Police School to be a police officer, but had to leave a few weeks after beginning work because he suddenly needed glasses, which was not acceptable at the time.<ref name=Betz>Martin Betz, [http://www.martinbetz.at/diplom/hinterberger.htm Interview: Ernst Hinterberger (September 1998)], ''Der Rest ist Geschichte: Arbeitsbedingungen von Drehbuchautoren'', thesis, [[University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna]], 2000, retrieved 21 June 2010.</ref> Following his time with the police, he first worked as a labourer.<ref name=ORF/> In 1958 he married and attended the City of Vienna's Library School, following which he worked for ten years as a librarian in adult education centres.<ref name=Salzburger>[http://www.salzburg.com/online/nachrichten/kultur/Corti-Preis-an-Ernst-Hinterberger.html?article=eGMmOI8V4YJj7iFIXvoReAKJb3djQDmDTe7zZaY&img=&text=&mode=& "Corti-Preis an Ernst Hinterberger"], ''[[Salzburger Nachrichten]]'' 7 April 2010, retrieved 21 June 2010.</ref> After these libraries were closed in 1968, he worked in shipping in a factory until his retirement in 1991. He was unwilling to rely on writing to provide his entire income.<ref name=Betz/> He has lung damage from the factory work.<ref name=Falter>[http://www.falter.at/web/print/detail.php?id=365 "Buddhas Haberer: Mundl-Erfinder, Fabriksarbeiter, Krimiautor, Ehrenkieberer: Der Urwiener Ernst Hinterberger feiert dieser Tage seinen 75. Geburtstag. Ein Porträt"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930211615/http://www.falter.at/web/print/detail.php?id=365 |date=30 September 2011 }}, ''[[Falter]]'' 18 October 2006</ref>


Hinterberger discovered literature in the 1950s through the Bavarian author [[Oskar Maria Graf]];<ref name=ORF/> he began writing when he was 24 or 25 years old.<ref name=Betz/>
Hinterberger discovered literature in the 1950s through the Bavarian author [[Oskar Maria Graf]];<ref name=ORF/> he began writing when he was 24 or 25 years old.<ref name=Betz/>
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==Sources==
==Sources==
* [http://www.datum.at/0508/stories/4882913 "Die Menschen anschauen"], ''[[Datum (magazine)|Datum]]'' May 2008
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101226055129/http://www.datum.at/0508/stories/4882913 "Die Menschen anschauen"], ''[[Datum (magazine)|Datum]]'' May 2008


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Ernst+Hinterberger&dblist=638&fq=ap%3A%22hinterberger%2C+ernst%22&qt=facet_ap%3A Works by Ernst Hinterberger] at [[OCLC]] Worldcat
*[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Ernst+Hinterberger&dblist=638&fq=ap%3A%22hinterberger%2C+ernst%22&qt=facet_ap%3A Works by Ernst Hinterberger] at [[OCLC]] Worldcat
*[https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?query=Woe%3D11560524X&method=simpleSearch Works by Ernst Hinterberger] at [[German National Library]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001954/https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?query=Woe%3D11560524X&method=simpleSearch Works by Ernst Hinterberger] at [[German National Library]]


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Ernst Hinterberger
Born(1931-10-17)17 October 1931
Vienna
Died(2012-05-14)14 May 2012
Vienna
OccupationWriter of novels and plays
NationalityAustrian
PeriodContemporary
Literary movementVienna dialect
Notable worksEin echter Wiener geht nicht unter
Kaisermühlen-Blues
SpouseMargarete ("Gerti") (1958–2001)
Karla (2004–2012)

Ernst Hinterberger (17 October 1931 – 14 May 2012)[1] was an Austrian writer of novels, particularly detective novels, plays and successful sitcoms. His first TV scripts were unusual for their use of genuine Vienna dialect.[2]

Life

Ernst Hinterberger was born and died in Vienna. He was the son of an unemployed typesetter, who died when Ernst was seven.[3] He completed training as an electrician, then from 1950 to 1952 he trained at the Vienna Police School to be a police officer, but had to leave a few weeks after beginning work because he suddenly needed glasses, which was not acceptable at the time.[4] Following his time with the police, he first worked as a labourer.[3] In 1958 he married and attended the City of Vienna's Library School, following which he worked for ten years as a librarian in adult education centres.[5] After these libraries were closed in 1968, he worked in shipping in a factory until his retirement in 1991. He was unwilling to rely on writing to provide his entire income.[4] He has lung damage from the factory work.[2]

Hinterberger discovered literature in the 1950s through the Bavarian author Oskar Maria Graf;[3] he began writing when he was 24 or 25 years old.[4]

Since approximately 1954, Hinterberger had lived in a 44 square metre city-owned flat on the Margaretengürtel in Vienna.[4][6][7] His first wife, Margarete ("Gerti") died in 2001 after 45 years of marriage,[2] nine months before the 2002 publication of his book Ein Abschied. Lebenserinnerungen ("A Farewell: Life Memories"). In that book he said he was resigned and wanted nothing more to do with the world.[8] Hinterberger had since remarried, to Karla.[9]

Hinterberger was a practising Buddhist[3][9] and had written poems in Chinese style, but they have never appeared in German.[3][4]

Works

Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter

Hinterberger's Edmund "Mundl" Sackbauer, (anti-)hero of the television series Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter, came to typify the Viennese renter in the German-speaking world.

Sackbauer is a complainer who is actually a good man at the bottom of his heart, but is always giving in. In contrast, the original figure in Hinterberger's mid-1960s book Das Salz der Erde on which he based the series is a pitiful man in the throes of midlife crisis, who notices while on holiday in Italy that his control over his family is dissolving. At the end of the book he leaves his wife, fails in his attempt to revive his self-confidence in a bordello, and is last seen uncertain whether in his outburst of emotion he has killed the prostitute or whether she is only injured.

In 2008 Echte Wiener – Die Sackbauer-Saga, a film based on the series, also written by Hinterberger, appeared.

Books (selection)

  • 1965 Beweisaufnahme ("Taking Evidence"), novel
  • 1966 Salz der Erde ("Salt of the Earth"), novel
  • 1975 Wer fragt nach uns: Geschichten von kleinen Leuten, armen Hunden und Aussenseitern ("Who Asks for Us: Stories of Little People, Poor Dogs and Outsiders"), historical novel
  • 1977 Das Abbruchhaus ("The Demolition House"), novel
  • 1984 Jogging, detective novel
  • 1988 Superzwölfer ("Super Twelver"), detective novel
  • 1989 Kleine Leute ("Little People"), novel
  • 1991 Das fehlende W ("The Missing W"), detective novel
  • 1992 Und über uns die Heldenahnen ... ("And Above Us the Heroic Ancestors . . ."), detective novel
  • 1993 Alleingang ("Walking Alone"), detective novel
  • 1993 Kleine Blumen ("Little Flowers"), detective novel
  • 1993 Von furzenden Pferden, Ausland und Inländern ("Of Farting Horses, Foreign Countries and Natives"), novel
  • 1997 Zahltag ("Pay Day"), detective novel
  • 1998 Die dunkle Seite ("The Dark Side"), detective novel
  • 2002 Ein Abschied. Lebenserinnerungen ("A Farewell: Life Memories")

Plays

  • Im Käfig ("In The Cage")
  • Immer ist ja nicht Sonntag ("After All It's not Always Sunday")
  • Die Puppe ("The Doll")
  • Offene Gesellschaft ("Open Society")
  • Swimmingpool

Television

  • 1975–79 Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter ("A Genuine Viennese Does not Go Under"), 24-episode sitcom
  • 1992–99 Kaisermühlen-Blues, 64-episode sitcom – resulted in the spin-off of:
  • 2000–05 Trautmann (Trautman is a detective figure in Kaisermühlen-Blues)

Awards

Sources

References

  1. ^ "Autor Ernst Hinterberger 80-jährig gestorben". Salzburger Nachrichten. 14 May 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Buddhas Haberer: Mundl-Erfinder, Fabriksarbeiter, Krimiautor, Ehrenkieberer: Der Urwiener Ernst Hinterberger feiert dieser Tage seinen 75. Geburtstag. Ein Porträt" Archived 30 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Falter 18 October 2006
  3. ^ a b c d e "Ernst Hinterberger wird 75" (Ernst Hinterberger turns 75), Österreichischer Rundfunk, 14 October 2006, retrieved 21 June 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e Martin Betz, Interview: Ernst Hinterberger (September 1998), Der Rest ist Geschichte: Arbeitsbedingungen von Drehbuchautoren, thesis, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, 2000, retrieved 21 June 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Corti-Preis an Ernst Hinterberger", Salzburger Nachrichten 7 April 2010, retrieved 21 June 2010.
  6. ^ "Mittendrin im wahren Leben – Zuhause bei Ernst Hinterberger", Wien live, June 2009 (40 sq. m.)
  7. ^ "Buddhas Haberer: Mundl-Erfinder, Fabriksarbeiter, Krimiautor, Ehrenkieberer: Der Urwiener Ernst Hinterberger feiert dieser Tage seinen 75. Geburtstag. Ein Porträt", Falter (50 sq. m.)
  8. ^ "Ernst Hinterberger wird 75". ORF: "im Großen und Ganzen mit der Welt nichts mehr zu tun haben will".
  9. ^ a b "Mittendrin im wahren Leben – Zuhause bei Ernst Hinterberger", Wien live.
  10. ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 969. Retrieved 27 November 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)
  11. ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 1468. Retrieved 27 November 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)
  12. ^ ""Mundl"-Autor Ernst Hinterberger für Lebenswerk geehrt". Die Presse. 16 April 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2010. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
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