Friedrich Achleitner is an Austria

Austria

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n poet

Poet

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 and architecture

Architecture

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 critic

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Achleitner studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is an institution of higher education in Vienna, Austria.- History :The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy by the court-painter Peter Strudl, who became the Praefectus Academiae Nostrae. In 1701 he was ennobled as Baron of the Empire...

 from 1950–1953. He joined the Wiener Gruppe

Wiener Gruppe

Wiener Gruppe was a small and loose avant-garde constellation of Austrian poets and writers, which arose from an older and wider postwar association of artists called Art-Club . The group was formed around 1954 under the influence of H. C. Artmann in Vienna and existed for about a decade...

 in 1955, participated in their literary cabarets, and wrote dialect poems, montages, and concrete poems. In 1983 he became Professor of the history and theory of architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

Works

• prosa, konstellationen, montagen, dialektgedichte, studien (1970)
• quadratroman (1973)
• Österreichische Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert (1980–1985)
• Nieder mit Fischer von Erlach (1986)
• KAAAS. Dialektgedichte (1991)
• Die Plotteggs kommen. Ein Bericht (1995)
• einschlafgeschichten (2003)
• wiener linien (2004)
• und oder oder und (2006)