Walter Puchner (born 1947) is an Austrian writer, critic and university professorontheatre 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.[1][2]
Walter Puchner
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| Born | (1947-05-12) 12 May 1947 (age 77) |
| Nationality | Austrian |
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| Discipline | Theatre studies |
| Institutions | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
He was born on 12 May 1947 in Vienna. He studied in the University of Vienna, from which he obtained a doctorate of philosophy in 1972. 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. He then went on to teaching in the philosophical school of the University of Crete of which he also became president in 1987 while he was also teaching in the University of Graz. He started teaching in the University of Athens from 1989, and is now an emeritus there.[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.
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