She is known for her multi-volume series of novels dealing with the history of Austria in the twentieth century.
[1] In the 1970s, she married the writer Wolfgang Fritz and moved to Vienna, where she would live the rest of her life.
In 1978, she published her first novel Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse (The Weight of Things), for which she was awarded that year's Robert Walser Prize.
The publication of this novel marked the beginning of a massive, multi-volume project referred to as Die Festung (The Fortress).
[6] She continued to push the linguistic boundaries of German with the publication in the 1990s of two additional volumes of Die Festung under the names Naturgemäß I and II.