From early on Beyer, strongly influenced by Friederike Mayröcker and the authors of the French nouveau roman, was a writer of lyric poetry and novels, always taking an idiosyncratic view of German history, in particular the Third Reich era.
Friederike Mayröcker | Friederike Sophie Seyler | Princess ''Marie'' Wilhelmine Friederike Elisabeth of Nassau-Weilburg | Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach | Countess ''Friederike'' Amalie of Schlieben |
Other writers who contributed to the foundation of the association, were Friedrich Achleitner, Wolfgang Bauer, Georg Bydlinski, Barbara Frischmuth, Peter Handke, Ernst Jandl, Alfred Kolleritsch, Friederike Mayröcker, Reinhard Priessnitz, Peter Rosei, Gerhard Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Michael Scharang, and Oswald Wiener.