What is Friedrich Achleitner?
[[File:FriedrichAchleitner80.AzW.MQ.C.jpg|thumb|250px|Achleitner in May 2010]] '''Friedrich Achleitner''' (23 May 1930 – 27 March 2019) was an [[Austria]]n poet and [[architecture]] [[critic]]. He was a member of the Wiener Gruppe, a small movement of Austrian writers. He wrote [[Concrete poetry|concrete]] [[poem]]s and [[Experimental literature|experimental]] [[literature]]. His main writings were on Austrian architecture in the [[20th century]]. These works were written over many years, and included Achleitner visiting each [[building]] he talked about. He was [[professor]] of the [[history]] and [[theory]] of architecture at the [[University of Applied Arts Vienna]]. He won many awards in his lifetime. He was awarded the Schelling Architecture Theory Prize in 2008. Achleitner was born in [[Schalchen]], [[Upper Austria]]. He died on 27 March 2019 in [[Vienna]], at the age of 88.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://orf.at/stories/3116678/|title=Autor und Architekturkritiker: Friedrich Achleitner ist tot|publisher=[[ORF (broadcaster)|ORF]]|date=27 March 2019|language=de|access-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{DNB portal|119369125}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Achleitner, Friedrich}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Austrian architects]] [[Category:Austrian artists]] [[Category:Austrian poets]] [[Category:Critics]] [[Category:Austrian academics]] [[Category:People from Upper Austria]] {{Bio-stub}}