Background
Wiplinger was born in 1939 in Haslach an der Mühl in Upper Austria as the tenth child of a merchant family.
Wiplinger was born in 1939 in Haslach an der Mühl in Upper Austria as the tenth child of a merchant family.
He studied performance arts, German and philosophy.
Since 1960 he has lived as liberal writer and photographer in Vienna. Wiplinger published about 30 books, which have been translated to more than 20 languages. He primarily writes political essays, poetry and artistic photography.
He is member of the Austrian PEN, auf the Austrian League for Human Rights, of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance against Nazisms, and he is directing member of the writers" association IG Autoren.