Rudolf Bayr (1919–1990) was an Austrian dramatist, lyricist, essayist, critic and translator.
Bayr was cultural editor of the Volkischer Beobachter[1] at a young age but later had a considerable career in the media of the Second Republic.
Despite this burdensome past after 1945 he wrote, among others, for the Salzburger Nachrichten, worked as a lecturer and author at the Residenz Verlag, and worked from 1975 to 1984 as Intendant of the ORF regional studios Salzburg.
Bayr was friends with Karl Heinrich Waggerl and actively supported the initiator of the 1970 Rauriser Literature Days, Erwin Gimmelsberger.
[2] In 1956, he won the Laureate of the Academy of Sciences Franz Grillparzer Prize.