He has received several literature awards, among them the Youth Prize Erster Österreichischer Jugendpreis in 1982, and the Viennese Wiener Werkstattpreis in 2007.

[7] In 2001, while studying European economics at a Viennese university of applied sciences, he authored a paper about Islamism in Europe, which was published in Germany in 2001.

[8] He also wrote several stories dealing with the Muslim civilization, such as in "Momentaufnahme" ("Snapshot") and "Flug sechs-zwo-zwo" ("Flight six-two-two)",[9] "orgiastisch" ("orgiastic")[10] and others.

He is a member of the Austrian writers' associations Grazer Autorenversammlung (GAV)[11] and Österreichischer Schriftstellerverband (ÖSV).

Two early versions of this novel's chapters were published by the Upper Austrian magazine die Rampe in 1994 (Der Schreiber von Aram) and 1997 (Das Gesetz).

Supported by a subsidy for literature from the Austrian government, he went to Andorra in 2007 to write an essay about the country in the Pyrenees.

[25] Ebner's short stories in particular cover a multitude of topics, which, as critic Julia Rafael states, treat actual and socially relevant problems.

Jezek compares Ebner's sentences to "Japanese paintings – every word has been chosen with special care".

[28] In 1982, Ebner was awarded the Youth Prize for Literature (Großer Österreichischer Jugendpreis) for his novella Das Brandmal (The Stigma), which had attracted the attention of Austrian critic and jury member Hans Weigel.

[29] The novella tells the story of a young community servant who, through his service, becomes acquainted with a seemingly bewildered pensioner; a Viennese Jew whose bewilderment is a direct consequence of his experiences in a concentration camp during the Third Reich.

[32] The jury referred to the "metropolitan tristesse" in the poem which describes a "paperman" whose "meal consists of loneliness":[33][34] ein Zettler krank vergessen ganz im Suff die Wagenräder sperren zäh sein Mahl besteht aus Einsamkeit garniert mit Sehnsucht nach Vergangenem betört von lauten Rufen Hoffnung wie vor langem sie verlosch a paperman and sick forlorn in drunkenness the wheels are blocking clumsily his meal consists of loneliness its garnish is the yearning for the past beguiled by shouts of thunder hope that long ago has died In 2008, Ebner was awarded the Wiener Werkstattpreis for his short story "Der Flügel Last" ("The Wings' Burden"), which describes a seven-year-old girl who suffers from cancer.

Ebner intermingled his own reading experience with philological and historical information to create "Was blieb vom Weißen Ritter?".