!!!Priessnitz, Reinhard

b. Vienna, Oct. 27, 1945, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 5, 1985, writer of experimental poetry and prose, 
essayist. Editor of the "Neues Forum" 1968-1974, from 1976 regular 
articles for the newspaper "Die Presse"; 1982 lectureship in 
literature and poetry at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the 
Art College in Linz. With his work continued the tradition of the  
Wiener Gruppe without adopting their formalist conception. His main 
work, published during his lifetime, is the "vierundvierzig gedichte" 
(1978). The Reinhard Priessnitz Prize has been awarded by the Austrian 
Federal Chancellery since 1994.

!Further works
Werkausgabe, ed. by F. Schmatz, 4 vols., 
1978-1994.

!Literature
Dossier R. P., in: Sprache im techn. Zeitalter, Nr. 
100, 1986; W. Ruprechter (ed.), R.-P.-Symposion Paris 1990, 1992; 
F. J. Czernin, Die Schreibhand. Zu R. P. Gedicht 
"Heldin", 1997.



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