21.06.2023 – 23.05.2024
Franz Rieger was already fifty when he entered the wider public with his first novel in 1973.
He continued to write monomaniacally and created a work that is located in Stifter’s landscape and has often been compared to Thomas Bernhard. Rieger’s prose is precise and meticulously crafted; nothing spectacular happens in it. This is why critics perceived him as an author of silence. This connects Rieger not least with the Austrian avant-garde literature of the 1970s and 80s, as an important representative of which he should be rediscovered today.
The Monomaniac Writer: Franz Rieger (1923–2005)
21.06.2023 – 23.05.2024
Stifterhaus
Adalbert-Stifter-Platz 1
4020 Linz
https://www.stifterhaus.at
