!!!Bayr, Rudolf

b. Linz (Upper Austria), May 22, 1919, 
d. Salzburg, Oct. 17, 1990, dramatist, poet, essayist, critic and 
translator, 1948-1951 editor of the magazine "Vienna Literary Echo", 
head of the Department of Culture and Science at the Austrian 
broadcasting corporation ORF, 1975-1984 Director-general of the ORF 
studios in Salzburg, 1953 Grillparzer Prize, 1960 Austrian State 
Prize.

!Works
Poetry: Der Wolkenfisch, 1965; Flugsand und Schlaf, 1988. - 
Dramas: Sappho und Alkaios, 1952; Die Liebe der Andrea, 1954; 
Agamemnon muss sterben, 1965. - Prose: Die Schattenuhr, 1976; Ein Loch 
im Lehm, 1981; Die Eiben von Sammezzano, 1984. - Adaptations from 
ancient Greek (Sophocles): Antigone, 1961; Elektra, 1963.

!Literature
R. B., Ich habe nichts als mich, ed. by B. 
Steinwendtner, 1999.



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