In 1994 he moved to West Cork, Ireland, as a friend offered him to lease a splendid house at the Atlantic coast for a very affordable rent, and also because of the artists exemption in the Irish income taxation. After his novel Die letzte Welt was published in 1988 he did extensive traveling in Ireland, Asia, North and South America. He worked there as cultural editor for the newspaper Extrablatt from 1978 to 1982, also publishing articles and essays in GEO, TransAtlantik and Merian. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. In 1997 Ransmayr read his short story Die dritte Luft oder Eine Bühne am Meer, written for this occasion, as Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee.
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