Not only due to Peter Handke's stay, the Mönchsberg is frequently called the mountain of writers: It plays a significant role in the autobiographic work of Thomas Bernhard, but often not in the positive sense. It applies to him as „the suicide mountain. The Austrian author Gerhard Amanshauser also was among the inhabitants of the Mönchsberg. In his autobiography as a barbarian in the Prater the mountain and the near Festungsberg is important.