Rudolph J. Wojta

In 1975, he joined the weekly newspaper Wochenpresse as critic in the fields of architecture, literature, theatre, cinema and art.

In 1979 he joined the newly founded magazine WIENER for which he served as editor in chief from 1981 to 1982.

Zerfall der Lage est, according to Michael Pfeffer, “an intense novel on a young poet who was installed in a small piece during the winter of 1930/31 to write a majeure oeuvre”.

The story is located in Döbling and it is inspired by the life of Heimito von Doderer.

His plan to put writing before life fails; The novel deals with repressed memories and the obsessive search for a lost love, ultimately with the disintegration of a personality.