Ernst Hinterberger (b. October 17, 1931 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer.
Hinterberger was a skilled electrician. From 1950 to 1952, he visited police school, due to a weak sight he worked however as a librarian during the Viennese national education. After closing of these libraries he worked up to his retirement in 1991 as a forwarding clerk in a factory.
His "Mundl" Edmund Sackbauer, (anti-)Held the TV serial Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter, became in the entire German linguistic area the epitome of the inhabitants of Viennese social housing projects.

Works

Books (selection)

• 1965 Beweisaufnahme = Hearing of Evidence, novel
  1966 Salz der Erde = The Salt of the Earth, novel
  1975 Wer fragt nach uns: Geschichten von kleinen Leuten, armen Hunden und Aussenseitern = Who asks for us, historical novel
  1977 Das Abbruchhaus, novel
  1984 Jogging, detective story
  1988 Superzwölfer, detective story
  1989 Kleine Leute = Small People, novel
  1991 Das fehlende W = The missing W, detective story
  1992 Und über uns die Heldenahnen ... = And Over for us the Heroic Ancestors..., detective story
  1993 Alleingang, detective story
  1993 Kleine Blumen = Small Flowers, detective story
  1997 Zahltag = Pay Day, detective story
  1998 Die dunkle Seite, detective story
  2002 Ein Abschied. Lebenserinnerungen
  ? Von furzenden Pferden, Ausland und Inländern
  Plays
  
  
  
  • Im Käfig = In The Cage
    Immer ist ja nicht Sonntag = Is Always Not Sunday
    Die Puppe = The Doll
    Offene Gesellschaft = Open Society
    Swimmingpool
    Media
    
    
    
    • Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter = A Genuine Viennese Does Not Drown, TV-series (small sitcom, 24 episodes)
      Kaisermühlen-Blues (Austrian TV-series), TV-series (famous sitcom in Austria 64 episodes, from 1992 to 1999) - resulted in the spin-off of:
      Trautmann (Austrian TV-series, Trautman is a detective figure of Kaisermühlen-Blues), TV-series (from 2000 until now (2005))