!!!Bauer, Wolfgang

b. Graz (Styria), March 18, 1941, dramatist, scriptwriter for 
television and radio, poet and novelist, member of the Grazer 
Autorenversammlung (Graz Association of Authors) and of Forum 
Stadtpark in Graz; works with G.  Falk. Strongly influenced by rock 
and pop music culture in his youth, his breakthrough came with his 
staged assault on middle-class values in the play "Magic Afternoon" 
(1968). The irony attached to both the dramaturgical effects and the 
language of his characters interwoven with elements of the absurd 
theatre is used to highlight social evils. 1994 Grand Austrian State 
Prize.

!Further works
Dramas: Mikrodramen, 1964; Change, Party for Six, 1969; 
Katharina Doppelkopf und andere Eisenbahnstuecke, 1973; Gespenster, 
Silvester oder Das Massaker im Hotel Sacher, Film und Frau, 1974; 
Pfnacht, 1980; Das kurze Leben der Schneewolken, 1983; Ach armer 
Orpheus, 1991; Kantine, 1993. - Novel: Der Fieberkopf, 1967. - Poems: 
Das Herz, 1981; Das stille Schilf, 1985. - Edition: Werke, ed. by G. 
Melzer, 8 vols., 1989-1996.

!Literature
G. Melzer, W. B. Eine Einfuehrung in das Gesamtwerk, 
1981.


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