Walter Puchner (born 1947) is an Austrian writer, critic and university professor on theatre studies.
He has made significant work on the theatrology of Greece, the greater area of the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and Byzantium, on folkloristics but also on a variety of other subjects concerning the culture of the area with more than 80 books and numerous studies and critiques.
In 1977 he was proclaimed Privatdozent of the University of Vienna and since then he resides in Greece, since he married the pediatrician Ariadne Malamitse.
[1][2] He has taught in many universities as a visitor, in some as a senior visiting scholar of the US branch of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation (Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)).
[3] Puchner has received awards and honours in the country of his origin, Austria, as well as in Greece.