Ernst Hinterberger

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Ernst Hinterberger (b. October 17, 1931 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer.

Hinterberger was a skilled electrician. From 1950 to 1952, he visited police school, due to a weak sight he worked however as a librarian during the Viennese national education. After closing of these libraries he worked up to his retirement in 1991 as a forwarding clerk in a factory.

His "Mundl" Edmund Sackbauer, (anti-)Held the TV serial Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter, became in the entire German linguistic area the epitome of the inhabitants of Viennese social housing projects.

[edit] Works

Books (selection)
- 1965 Beweisaufnahme = Hearing of Evidence, novel
- 1966 Salz der Erde = The Salt of the Earth, novel
- 1975 Wer fragt nach uns: Geschichten von kleinen Leuten, armen Hunden und Aussenseitern = Who asks for us, historical novel
- 1977 Das Abbruchhaus, novel
- 1984 Jogging, detective story
- 1988 Superzwölfer, detective story
- 1989 Kleine Leute = Small People, novel
- 1991 Das fehlende W = The missing W, detective story
- 1992 Und über uns die Heldenahnen ... = And Over for us the Heroic Ancestors..., detective story
- 1993 Alleingang, detective story
- 1993 Kleine Blumen = Small Flowers, detective story
- 1997 Zahltag = Pay Day, detective story
- 1998 Die dunkle Seite, detective story
- 2002 Ein Abschied. Lebenserinnerungen
- ? Von furzenden Pferden, Ausland und Inländern
Plays
- Im Käfig = In The Cage
- Immer ist ja nicht Sonntag = Is Always Not Sunday
- Die Puppe = The Doll
- Offene Gesellschaft = Open Society
- Swimmingpool
Media
- Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter = A Genuine Viennese Does Not Drown, TV-series (small sitcom, 24 episodes)
- Kaisermühlen-Blues (Austrian TV-series), TV-series (famous sitcom in Austria 64 episodes, from 1992 to 1999) - resulted in the spin-off of:
- Trautmann (Austrian TV-series, Trautman is a detective figure of Kaisermühlen-Blues), TV-series (from 2000 until now (2005))