age of 77 in a Munich hospital, due to wounds from falling. Fellow author Hermann Peter Piwitt described him as "one of the greats of the German language". Quote "Many colleagues fool themselves into believing that one may need half a year to learn how to butcher a pig, or three years to learn to sow a suit, but that everybody can write if he is a little excited." Works «Wie eine Meinung in einem Kopf entsteht. Uber das Herstellen von Untertanen» (How an opinion forms in the mind. Creating subject people), Weismann Verlag 1971, «Folter - Lexikon» (Torture-Lexicon), 1969 «Du sollst mich mal kennenlernen... Das Haus der fertigen Sätze» (You shall get to know me ... The house of prefab sentences), rororo 1972, «Vom Faustkeil zur Fabrik» (From the biface to the factory), Weismann Verlag 1977, «Vom Umgang mit Wörtern» (How deal with words), Verlag Antje Kunstmann 1978, «Brief an meine Erzieher» (Letter to my educators), 1979, Weismann Verlag 1980 (2. Aufl.), «Kunerma, der Ort, wo niemand wohnt. Als westdeutscher Gastarbeiter in der sibirischen Taiga» (Kunerma, the place where nobody lives. As West German guest worker in the Siberian taiga), Baulino Verlag 1979, «Die kunstvolle Arbeit der Verführung» (The art of seduction), Ullstein 1981, «Magnet Sibirien» (Magnetic Siberia), 1983 «Folter in Geschichte und Gegenwart von Nero bis Pinochet» (Torture in the past and present, from Nero to Pinochet), Eichborn Verlag (Neuauflage 1988), «Mallorca. Das Land hinter der Buhne» (Majorca. The land behind the breakwater), Rasch u. Röhring 1988, «Wofür arbeiten wir eigentlich?» (Those who really work?), Rasch u. Röhring 1988, «Die neue Schule des Schreibens» (The new school of scripture), Econ 1996, «Leben buchstabieren» (The spelling of life), Gollenstein Verlag 2005, Heinz Felsbach, Ernst Alexander Rauter (Hrsg.): Internationaler Publizistik-Preis Klagenfurt 1987. Texte, Thesen, Reaktionen. (Felsbach Heinz, Ernst Alexander Rauter (ed.):International Journalism Award Klagenfurt 1987th Texts, theories, reactions), Paul List Verlag 1988, References External links http://www.kfj.at/rauter/rauter-portrait.htm (German) http://www.mind-expanding-techniques.net/creating-subject-people.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100410021441/http://knol.google.com/k/vlassis-rassias/%CE%B5-%CE%B1-%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81/gnmodo87aoe9/164 (Greek) 1929 births 2006 deaths Austrian activists Austrian critics Austrian male writers 20th-century Austrian journalists