Rudolf Bayr (1919–1990) was an Austrian dramatist, lyricist, essayist, critic and translator.

Biography

Bayr was born on 22 May 1919 in

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, Upper Austria. Bayr was cultural editor of the Volkischer Beobachter at a young age but later had a considerable career in the media of the Second Republic. Despite this burdensome past after 1945 he wrote, among others, for the

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, worked as a lecturer and author at the Residenz Verlag, and worked from 1975 to 1984 as Intendant of the

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Salzburg. Bayr was friends with

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and actively supported the initiator of the 1970 Rauriser Literature Days, Erwin Gimmelsberger. Many of Bayr's works deal with the presentation of ancient themes. In 1956, he won the Laureate of the Academy of Sciences

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. Bayr has also emerged as a chef and restaurant critique. From 1970 until his death in 1985, he was a member of the Lodge Tamino. He died on 17 October 1990 in

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Radio plays

* 1955: Agamemnon must die - Director: Hans Conrad Fischer (radio play - SFB ) * 1965: Orange Blossom - Director: Gert Westphal (Radio Play - NDR )

Literature

Peter Kraft:Peter Kraft, in: Website of Regiowiki.at Ancient antiquity taken at its word. About Rudolf Bayr, the originating from Linz and emerged from the Academic Gymnasium humanist, in Academic Gymnasium Linz, Alumni Report No. 31, Linz, 2001, pp. 1–5

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bayr, Rudolf 1912 births 1990 deaths Writers from Linz 20th-century Austrian writers