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Riess was born in Vienna in 1957, grew up in Krems and studied politics and theater in Vienna, Berlin and Rostock. He wrote essays, short stories, radio plays and screenplays. His plays include “Kuruzzen”, “Loibl-Saga”, “The Wrath of Eleonore Batthyány” and “Mr. Grillparzer plucks up courage and takes a Danube steamer to the Black Sea”. His eight Groll novels (most recently “Herr Groll und die Wölfe von Salzburg” were published in 2021) were often a mixture of travel and crime literature and always characterized by an enlightening impetus.
Spokesperson for the Disabled
After a spinal cord tumor, he became a wheelchair user and subsequently an activist in the autonomous disability movement. “Not only was he highly proactive as an author and spokesman for the disabled, there was also no professional or socio-political initiative that did not find his support,” said the “IG Authors”.
In recent years Riess, who was awarded the Lower Austria Prize for Literature in 2002, has lived in Vienna-Floridsdorf and in Carinthia.
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