Erwin Riess

Erwin Riess ( born March 13, 1957 in Vienna) is an Austrian political scientist and publicist; Since 1983 wheelchair users, it is disabled activist since 1994 and a freelance writer. He writes plays, radio plays, screenplays and prose.

Life

After leaving school in Krems / Lower Riess studied politics and theater studies at the University of Vienna in 1984 at the Institute for Political Science with a thesis on economic and governmental structures of the Austrian capitalism in elevation to the Dr. phil. doctorate and worked as a book editor.

After a spinal cord tumor itself wheelchair user, he is committed to the concerns of disabled people in society. From 1984 to 1994 he was a research consultant on accessible building in the Austrian Ministry of Economics. He is involved in EUCREA. 1998, 2000 and 2002, he held visiting professorships of inclusive education at the University of Klagenfurt.

Since 1994 he works as a freelance writer. He is best known as a playwright and author of detective novels absurd. In 1998 he was Writer in Residence at New York University. He writes, inter alia, regularly for the left magazines voice of the people and specifically about the political situation in Austria, where he criticizes in particular social continuities to National Socialism. Riess designated in 2004 itself as " an emissary of the Communist Party ".

Erwin Riess lives in Vienna and Carinthia since 2007.

Scholarships and Awards

Work

His style is characterized by cryptic joke and an omnipresent, increased to sarcasm settlement with the ignorance of society, seems unknown to the word accessibility. His figure of Floridsdorfer wheelchair user and ship fanatic Groll ( in short stories and four novels now ) fights in absurd situations against these architects and politicians alike widespread blindness to. However, it is not the disability of the principal owed, that the strange orders, the resentment from the New York domiciled Italian Giordano receives, each disastrous end: rather, it can be observed in the stories, like an individual with humor and, above all inexhaustible stamina against the As unfair fury of fate and asserts itself in the obstacle course of everyday life.

Works

  • Kuruzzen. One piece, 1993
  • Mr. Groll experiences the world. In wheelchair paralyzed by times. Narratives, 1996
  • Giordano's behalf. Novel, 1999
  • Mr. Grillparzer sums up courage and continues with a Danube steamer on the Black Sea. 2000
  • History Austria. Essays, 2003
  • Pieces from 1994 to 2004. Plays, 2004
  • The last wish of Don Pasquale. Novel, 2006
  • Mr. Groll traveling. Narratives, 2008
  • Mr. resentment and the red power. Novel, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7013-1170-5.
  • Mr. resentment in the shadow of the Karawanken. Investigations in Carinthia. Novel, Otto Müller Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3701311927
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