Ernst Hinterberger (b. October 17, 1931 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer. October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...

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 Viennese inhabitants of building of municipalities. Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter (literally meaning: A real Viennese does not sink / go under) is a classic ORF TV series from the 1970s invented by Ernst Hinterberger. ... Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter (literally meaning: A real Viennese does not sink / go under) is a classic ORF TV series from the 1970s invented by Ernst Hinterberger. ...

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 1999) - resulted in the spin-off:
• Trautmann (Austrian TV-Series), TV-series (from 2000 until now (2005))

Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter (literally meaning: A real Viennese does not sink / go under) is a classic ORF TV series from the 1970s invented by Ernst Hinterberger. ...

Awards

• Golden Romy, "Kurier" TV Star, 1993
• Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst