André Heller

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André Heller (also Andre Heller; also as Franz Heller or Franz André Heller; born March 22, 1947 in Vienna as Francis Charles Georges Jean André Heller-Hueart and French citizen ) is an Austrian multimedia artist , action artist , cultural manager , author , poet , poet , Chansonnier and actor .

Life

Early years

On his father's side, Heller comes from a wealthy Jewish family of confectionery manufacturers: his father Stephan (1895–1958) was the son of Wilhelm Heller, one of the two founders of the Viennese confectionery factory Gustav & Wilhelm Heller . This company became world famous for the invention of the dragées . His mother was Elisabeth Heller (1914–2018), and his older brother Fritz ran the company after his father's death. Because of his father, who emigrated because of National Socialism and returned after the war and still lived mainly in Paris , André Heller initially had French citizenship. His parents' marriage was divorced on the occasion of his father's emigration and concluded a second time after his return.

In 2017 his book There are no more clocks was published. Conversations with my mother when she was 102. The film portrait of Elisabeth Heller - The Woman of the Century by Beate Thalberg and Isolde von Mersi was released on ORF in 2012.

According to his own statements, the almost daily visit to Café Hawelka was decisive for his literary orientation during his school days . In this Viennese coffee house he met writers like Friedrich Torberg , HC Artmann and occasionally Elias Canetti as well as Hans Weigel and Helmut Qualtinger , with whom he later worked and performed. He took acting lessons from Hans Weigel and his partner Elfriede Ott .

After his youth in Vienna, Heller attended the private middle school in Bad Aussee .

Theater, radio, television, singing

André Heller initially played with little success on Viennese avant-garde stages and later worked as a program designer for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) .

Public person

In 1967 he was one of the founders of the first German-language pop broadcaster Ö3 , where he initially presented the program Musicbox . In 1968 he became the co-author of the successful television show Wünsch Dir was . In the same year his first long-playing record with the laconic title No. 1 was released. Heller became known to a wider audience in Austria and subsequently also in Germany in 1972 when ORF presented the surreal television show Wer war André Heller? radiated. His second LP called Platte was released that year , and his first play, King-Kong-King-Mayer-Mayer-Ling, premiered at the Wiener Festwochen .

Chansonnier

Heller gained a reputation as a pop singer, chansonnier and songwriter over the course of 15 years. He worked with international artists such as Astor Piazzolla , Dino Saluzzi , Freddie Hubbard , but also Austrian artists such as Toni Stricker , Wolfgang Ambros and Helmut Qualtinger. Heller often set his own poetry to music, but also sang texts by other authors. So the title Catherine from 1970 became one of Heller's first hits. The lyrics were written by the still largely unknown Reinhard Mey , the music by the Austro-Canadian Jack Grunsky .

In November 1975 Heller undertook a celebrated concert tour to Israel, of which recordings appeared in 1978 on the live album Bitter und Süß .

Heller often worked with the musician Peter Wolf , who emigrated from Austria to the United States in 1973 and played in the group of rock musician Frank Zappa . The Austropop LP Andre Heller Poetic Sound - Music For Lovers And Loosers by the Peter Wolf Objective Truth Orchestra was released, which is, however, a purely instrumental record, and Wolf participated in Heller's album Basta . Heller wrote the text of the song Heute in Jerusalem , set to music by Wolf , with which the singer Ina Wolf took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 under her artist name at the time, where it only achieved a shared last place.

Heller recorded chansons by Jacques Brel translated into Viennese by Werner Schneyder, such as "Franz" (based on the Brél title Jef ) and, in titles such as Angstlied ( Verwunschen , 1980), gave intimate insights into his biography and his Catholic-Jewish life on the basis of traumatic childhood experiences Origin. Titles like Miruna, the giantess of Gothenburg ( Verwunschen , 1980) are in turn influenced by the Viennese school of " Fantastic Realism ". The song from the ideal Park ( Fools songs, 1985) or rehearsed duet with Wolfgang Ambros Bob Dylan cover Forever Young ( hearing voices , 1983) are now considered classic title Austropop .

Nevertheless, since the beginning of the 1980s he turned increasingly to spectacular productions, actions and installations and ended his successful concert activities in 1982. In 1985 the album Narrenlieder followed , but it was no longer a success. It was his last record recording until the 2000s. Between 1967 and 1985 he released a total of 14 LPs. In 1991 he wrote in retrospect about this time:

“In 1967 I began to make my poems accessible to millions of people using my voice on records and in song recitals. Following the example of Bob Dylan, this initially made more sense than self- published poetry volumes or at Suhrkamp . In 1982, at the zenith of this career, I had to quit my concert activity because I was tortured to be talented in front of a few thousand listeners at 8 p.m. just because they had paid admission. "

- André Heller : In the liner notes of the "Critical Complete Edition" published in 1991

In 2004 he was awarded the Amadeus Austrian Music Award for Ruf und Echo . This 3-CD retrospective was initiated by Chris Gelbmann, an Austrian songwriter and then A&R manager of Universal Music .

On the occasion of his 60th birthday, André Heller gave a recital entitled “Concert for me” in April 2007 at the Radiokulturhaus in Vienna after 25 years of absence from the stage. Alfred Gusenbauer gave the eulogy for him .

Political commitment

During the Kreisky-Peter-Wiesenthal affair in 1975, Heller accused the Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky of defending FPÖ politician Friedrich Peter against Simon Wiesenthal's suspicion of involvement in war crimes and, moreover, of denying the existence of a Jewish people to have. In protest, Heller refused Austrian patronage for his Israel tour in the same year with a reception at the embassy.

Before the 1979 National Council election, Heller supported Kreisky despite his stance towards Peter and his support for the commissioning of the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant , which was stopped in a referendum in 1978 because Kreisky was the only serious candidate for chancellor to rule out the FPÖ's participation in the government.

In the early 1980s, Heller became a proponent of the peace movement . In the Dortmund concert “Artists for Peace” on November 21, 1981, Heller read a poem. He spoke as the final speaker at the peace demonstration on May 15, 1982 in Vienna.

In 1982, as "a Jew living in Vienna", Heller supported an appeal to Israel by 50 Austrian Jews, including Karl Kahane and Bruno Kreisky's son Peter , who appeared in several Austrian newspapers and as an advertisement in the Jerusalem Post and criticized the invasion of Lebanon and negotiations with the Palestinians were called for. The Israeli ambassador Issachar Ben-Yaacov then wanted to meet with representatives of the group.

In August 1982, Heller published an “open letter” to the Israeli ambassador in the magazine profil , in which he referred to his previous commitment against anti-Semitism, at the same time criticized Israeli President Menachem Begin for the Deir Yasin massacre and described him as the cause of anti-Semitic riots. Heller summed up:

“The millennia-long history of Jewish suffering is mocked by its own victims if they learn anything from it other than mercy, tolerance, human dignity and the ability to love persistently. It is worth fighting for that and for nothing else on this star. "

Thereupon Heller was accused of aiding and abetting anti-Semitism by Peter Stephan Jungk and Henryk M. Broder .

At the concert “Popstars gegen Pershing” in Bochum's Ruhrstadion on September 11, 1982, Heller performed the song “Raise your beloved”, which appeared in 1983 when voices were heard . On November 6, 1982, Heller worked as an organizer and one of 200 artists in front of 10,000 visitors at a concert “Artists for Peace” in the Wiener Stadthalle . After the Communist Party of Austria bought a quota of 800 tickets, Heller declared that he was

“... not in the least a communist, but accept to pull together in the peace movement with some credible anti-fascist communists in the interests of the overarching common survival, as long as our events ensure that crimes such as the attack on Afghanistan and the human rights violations of the USSR are criticized with the same naturalness as the intolerable conditions in Chile or South Africa. "

After the concert, Heller took a position in the weekly press against criticism expressed by Hubertus Czernin of his political commitment.

organizer

In 1976, Heller founded the Roncalli Circus together with Bernhard Paul , but left the joint project in the year it was founded, according to him, because he “did not want to share the success”. According to Paul, Heller “almost ruined the circus”.

In 1977 Heller failed with his attempt to win the city of Munich for a “World Exhibition of Fantasy” on the Olympic site because the authorities questioned the financial feasibility. In 1983 he started a successful collaboration with Stefan Seigner, who ran his business until 2003.

actor

As early as 1968, Heller ( pseudonym : André Miriflor) was co-financier of the film Moss on the Stones , which starred Erika Pluhar and for which he claims to have used up his inheritance. But soon he was also in front of the camera himself.

In addition to his spectacles, André Heller played leading roles in various international films, including Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Karl May und Hitler, a film from Germany , Radu Gabreas Fear not, Jakob! and Doctor Faustus by Franz Seitz , as well as in Peter Schamoni's Spring Symphony and a supporting role in Maximilian Schell's 1979 film adaptation of Ödön von Horváth's " Tales from the Vienna Woods " . As early as 1969, Heller had participated in a television version of Arthur Schnitzler's tragic comedy Das weite Land , directed by Peter Beauvais : At the side of OW Fischer (as Friedrich Hofreiter), Ruth Leuwerik (Genia Hofreiter), Walter Reyer (Dr. Franz Mauer), Helmut Qualtinger (banker Natter) and others he embodied Gustav Wahl, the brother of Erna Wahl ( Sabine Sinjen ). In 1989 he also worked as a stamp artist. On behalf of the United Nations Postal Administration , he designed the postage stamp for the tenth anniversary of the UN Vienna.

Cultural manager

From 2003 to 2006, Heller worked as the cultural coordinator for the 2006 Soccer World Cup in Germany. In 2000 he designed the final presentation for the successful West German application and in 2003 designed a “ soccer globe ” that toured Germany as an “architectural harbinger of the World Cup”. Heller is the inventor of the soccer World Cup motto “ The world as a guest of friends ”.

The opening gala planned by André Heller for the World Cup in the Olympiastadion Berlin , in which Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel were also involved, was canceled by FIFA on January 13, 2006. The reason given was that the turf , which would have had to be re-laid after the gala, might not have grown in perfect quality by the time the first game took place there (June 13, 2006). Precisely because of the failure, Heller assesses this project as an “interesting experience”.

Basically, André Heller - according to his own statements - only gets involved in work that will help him advance in his artistic learning horizon. Even a hypothetical offer of $ 100 million would not be reason enough for him to implement something that would not make sense for his development. “It's tempting because I can think of some of the smart, deep and exciting projects that can be done with $ 100 million, but in the end I'm not allowed to waste my time. I don't know if I'll drop dead in the next sentence, ”said Heller in an interview with SWR .

On September 21, 2018 it was announced that André Heller would take over the Vienna Urania Puppet Theater ("Kasperl & Pezi") from the previous director Manfred Müller .

Private citizen

André Heller was married to the actress, singer and author Erika Pluhar from 1970 to 1984 . For a few years in the 1970s he lived with the castle actress Gertraud Jesserer , and much later with the actress Andrea Eckert . In the mid-1980s, Heller was briefly in a relationship with Anke Kesselaar, Rudi Carrell's wife at the time . Heller currently lives with the former model Albina Bauer (former Schmid). With the photographer Sabina Sarnitz, with whom he was only a few months, he has the son Ferdinand Sarnitz, who is known as a musician under the stage name Left Boy .

When asked about his religiosity, he replied: "This two-thousand-year-old Judeo-Christian madness of sin and illness as a path and intimidation has been defended against by my common sense for as long as it can remember." He is also critical of religion in public. He said: “I don't belong to any religious association […]. I'm always flabbergasted [...] when I meet people who are of the opinion that God is with their association - a registered member. The idea that God is only with the Buddhists or only with the Jews or only with the Mohammedans or only with the Catholics is completely crazy. Nobody can seriously say that. "

Heller owns an apartment on Franziskanerplatz in the 1st district in Vienna. In 2000, Heller received the then German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in his former residence on Renngasse . He lives in Vienna and in the villa in Gardone Riviera belonging to the Giardino Botanico A. Hruska / Botanical Garden Gardone , the garden was in his possession from 1988 to 2014. As well as in his garden Anima (garden) in the Ourika Valley near Marrakech , Morocco, which he co-designed from scratch .

Awards

Works (selection)

Actions, installations, productions, design

2008: tent city of Africa! Africa! on the Waterlooplatz in Hanover
Tent city at night
Giardino Botanico in Gardone Riviera

Plays (selection)

  • King-Kong-King Mayer-Mayer-Ling - play, premiered in 1972.
  • Sein und Schein - a play, premiered in 1993 at the Burgtheater in Vienna

Fonts

  • They call me the knife thrower. Fischer TBV, 1974.
  • Up and away. Hoffmann and Campe, 1979.
  • The language of the salamanders - songs 1971–1981. Hoffmann and Campe, 1981.
  • Flic Flac - A poetic variety show photographed by Stefan Moses. Illustrated book. Ullstein, 1982.
  • Pilgrimages to the sanctuary of the imagination. Henschel Verlag, 1990.
  • Mess. S. Fischer, 1993.
  • Brockhaus Encyclopedia 2000. Design of the 24-volume luxury edition. 1998.
  • Picture life - public & private. Illustrated book. dtv, 2000.
  • When I was a dog. Berlin Verlag, 2001.
  • Shadow divers. dtv, 2003.
  • How I learned to be a child of myself: a narrative. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-10-030209-0 . (A childhood story based on his youth in the Jesuit boarding school.)
  • Viennese or a deliberate fool of fate. Scattered collected. Brandstetter, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85033-322-1 .
  • The book from the south. Zsolnay, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-552-05775-3 .
  • There are no more clocks. Conversations with my mother when she was 102. Zsolnay, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-552-05831-6 .
  • Thomas Bernhard Hab & Gut: The poet's refuge. With Barbara Vinken , Dietmar Steiner and Ronald Pohl ; Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7106-0310-5 .
  • Nice to cry, bitter to laugh. Tales from many years. Paul-Zsolnay-Verlag, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-552-05978-8 .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
That was André Heller
  AT 6th January 15, 1973 (4 weeks)
Occident
  AT 7th December 15, 1976 (12 weeks)
Basta
  AT 12 11/15/1978 (8 weeks)
... Heller of all people
  AT 19th 07/15/1979 (8 weeks)
Curse
  AT 5 11/15/1980 (12 weeks)
Hear voices
  AT 2 06/15/1983 (22 weeks)
Fool songs
  AT 11 05/01/1985 (10 weeks)
Shout and echo
  AT 3 
gold
gold
11/30/2003 (12 weeks)
Bestheller 1967-2007
  AT 40 09/12/2008 (4 weeks)
Late glow
  AT 2 
gold
gold
11/29/2019 (14 weeks)
  DE 90 11/22/2019 (1 week)
Singles
Forever young (with Wolfgang Ambros )
  AT 12 10/01/1983 (4 weeks)
Kumm ma with no more excuses (with Wolfgang Ambros)
  AT 25th 03/15/1985 (4 weeks)
  • No. 1 (1970)
  • Plate (1971)
  • That was André Heller (1972)
  • New Songs (1973)
  • A Musi A Musi (1974)
  • Andrè Heller poetic sound (1975)
  • Alive (live, 1975)
  • The early years 1966–1969 (1975)
  • Occident (1976)
  • Basta (1978)
  • Bitter and Sweet (live, 1978)
  • Heller of all people (1979)
  • Heurige und yesterday's songs (together with Helmut Qualtinger , 1979)
  • Haunted (1980)
  • Hear voices (1983)
  • Fool's Songs (1985)
  • Love Songs (1989)
  • Critical Complete Edition 1967–1991 (1991)
  • Ruf and Echo (2003)
  • Bestheller 1967-2007 (2008)
  • Late Glow (2019)

Filmography (selection)

... by André Heller

Complete listing on André Heller's website under filmography.

... with and about André Heller

Belletristic reception

In his "cheerful romance novel" The union of body and mind with Richard's help , the satirist Chlodwig Poth lets the Viennese chansonnier Andreas Herb perform, who is an easily recognizable portrait of Heller. Poth describes a dinner the Frankfurt pardon editorial team had with Herb and pours a lot of ridicule at the artist.

literature

  • Christian Seiler: André Heller. Fire head. The biography. Bertelsmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-570-10063-9 .
  • Entry on Heller, André (Franz) in the Austria-Forum , author / editing: I. Schinnerl (biography)
  • André Heller in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  • Wolfgang Sandner: André Heller: It's forever a shame that the world doesn't get to see that. Interview with André Heller. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 13/2006, January 16, 2006, p. 33.
  • Lorenz Maroldt: Culture: The tent master. Interview in the Tagesspiegel Checkpoint series . In: Tagesspiegel , June 27, 2006 ( article online ).
  • Martin Wassermair: Desire for strangers. With “Africa! Africa! ”Brings Heller colonial fantasies back to life and turns otherness into business. Comment. In: Falter , issue 48/2006, November 29, 2006 ( article online on the website of the author Wassermair, accessed on May 9, 2019).
  • Brighter from your senses . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 2011, p. 61-62 ( Online - Aug. 1, 2011 ).
  • Thomas Trenkler: “A family is actually everyone who is invited to be a family”. Multimedia artist André Heller, his mother Elisabeth Heller and his son Ferdinand Sarnitz on family constellations and Christmas. In: Der Standard , print edition, 17./18. December 2011 ( article online ).
  • Bernhard Odehnal: Heavenly business with Swiss companies. The universal artist André Heller is revered by the Austrian left as a moral authority. However, he prefers to keep his Swiss companies secret. In: Tages-Anzeiger , February 20, 2017 ( article online ).

Web links

Wikiquote: André Heller  - Quotes
Commons : André Heller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andre Heller as a partner (GS) and / or managing director (GF) of his companies in the commercial register , all registered at the Vienna Commercial Court with its seat in 1010 Vienna, Franziskanerplatz:
    • WISE DECISIONS GmbH, FN 293299y, Heller as managing 100 percent shareholder ( company details in firmenmonitor.at of the Wiener Zeitung , accessed on May 9, 2019).
    • Büro Andre HELLER GmbH, FB 294596f, GS: WISE DECISIONS GmbH, GF: Heller ( company details in firmenmonitor.at of the Wiener Zeitung, accessed on May 9, 2019).
    • ANIMA GmbH, FB 302775h, GS: WISE DECISIONS GmbH, GF: Heller ( company details in firmenmonitor.at of the Wiener Zeitung, accessed on May 9, 2019).
    • Artevent GmbH, FB 074238z, GS: WISE DECISIONS GmbH, GF: Heller ( company details in firmenmonitor.at of the Wiener Zeitung, accessed on May 9, 2019).
  2. ↑ Cf. for example in: Heller, André in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on May 9, 2019. (Here: "Heller, Franz (actually)".)
  3. ↑ Cf. for example in: Entry on Heller, André (Franz) in the Austria Forum  (biography). (Here: "Franz André Heller became ...".)
  4. ↑ Andre Heller: Short biography. In: LiteraturhausWien . Documentation Center for Newer Austrian Literature (Ed.), Undated, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b André Heller in the Munzinger archive , accessed on May 8, 2019 ( beginning of the article freely available). ("(Franz) André Heller was born as Francis Charles Georges Jean André Heller-Hueart on March 22, 1947 in Vienna.")
  6. ↑ a b cf. for example also in: Gregor Auenhammer: André Heller: It's good to be a fool. In the row: head of the day. In: DerStandard.at , September 21, 2018, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b Lisa Fischer: The waves in the mirror. In: Die Presse , May 2, 2008 ( beginning of the article freely readable , accessed on May 9, 2019.)
  8. ↑ a b megalomaniac with sufficient reason. In: Die Welt , March 17, 2012, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  9. ↑ a b c "I create myself every day". André Heller receives the platinum ROMY for his life's work to date. In: Kurier , April 19, 2015, accessed on May 9, 2019. (Here: Asked whether his passport really says Poet: “There has been no job title in the passport for decades. As a stormy youngster, I accepted this often misunderstood Actually enter the word because it was my dearest wish to lead a poetic existence in the sense of HC Artmann, but also of masters of the absurd and the dream like Raymond Roussel. ")
  10. ↑ " Woman of the Century" Elisabeth Heller is dead. In: wien. ORF .at, August 7, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2018.
  11. ↑ a b c Portrait of “Elisabeth Heller - The Woman of the Century”: ORF “dok.film” premiere on December 2, 2012. An extraordinary woman, an exciting life. In: OTS / APA press release by ORF , November 29, 2012, accessed May 9, 2019.
  12. ↑ Werner Liersch: Ernst Kaltenbrunner's Alpine production of the end of the Dead Mountains. In: Berliner Zeitung , April 23, 2005, accessed on May 9, 2019. (In it: “[Wilhelm] Höttl apparently managed not inconsiderable funds after 1945. […] In 1952 he founded a private high school in Bad Aussee, which served young people with school difficulties leads to the Abitur. It is attended by André Heller, among others. ")
  13. ↑ Jack Grunsky Edition Vol. 1 - Toronto. Jack Grunsky: Buffalo Brian, Kuckuck Schallplatten 12002-2. catalog Kuckuck release 12002-2. celestial harmonies, div. of mayflower music corporation (ed.), accessed on May 9, 2019.
  14. ^ André Heller - Verwunschen (album 1980), in austriancharts.at, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  15. ^ André Heller - Listening to Voices (1983 album), in austriancharts.at, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  16. ^ Alfred Gusenbauer : Accuracy and soul. A speech for André Heller by Alfred Gusenbauer. ( Memento from April 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Konzert für mich, broadcast on June 7, 2007 in Ö1 .
  17. ^ Siegfried Schmidt-Joos : Entertainment: Wein 'again . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1975, pp. 181-183 ( Online - Dec. 8, 1975 ).
  18. ↑ a b c André Heller: monster shameless. In: Wochenpresse, No. 48/1982.
  19. ↑ Herbert Lackner : 70,000 at the largest demonstration of the post-war period: “We never want to kill”. In: Artists for Peace (Ed.): Peace March of the 70,000. May 15, 1982 Vienna. Löcker, Vienna 1982, p. 138.
  20. ↑ a b c Hubertus Czernin : Two left, two right, Hubertus Czernin does not apologize to songwriter Andre Heller. In: Wochenpresse , No. 49/1982, December 7, 1982.
  21. ^ I & P. ​​Israel & Palestine Political Report, No. 92, July-August 1982, p. 11.
  22. ↑ André Heller: Dear Mr. Ambassador. Open letter in: profil , No. 34/1982, p. 8.
  23. ↑ Irene Suchy : Friedenslieder. In: Ö1 .ORF.at, sent in latitude 11 November 2007, accessed on May 9 of 2019.
  24. ^ Hubertus Czernin: Narcissus with gold mouth. In: Wochenpresse , No. 47/1982, November 23, 1982.
  25. ↑ Sarah Levy, Charlotte Parnack: Roncalli Circus: "As a circus man you have to throw money out of the window" What does a clown earn? Are Fixed Budgets A Joke? Is applause a currency? Bernhard Paul, director of the legendary Roncalli Circus, also conjures up in conversation. Interview in: Die Zeit , No. 35/2015, August 27, 2015 ( Article online in version September 10, 2015, accessed on May 9, 2019).
  26. ↑ Georg Lhotsky et al. : Moss on the stones. 1 DVD video. Edition Der Standard / The Austrian Film, No. 82. Hoanzl, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902568-82-3 , 00:58 min.
  27. ^ A b Wolfgang Sandner: André Heller: It's forever a shame that the world doesn't get to see that. Interview with André Heller. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 13/2006, January 16, 2006, p. 33 ( Article online , accessed on May 9, 2019): “One and a half years of work are already in the opening gala for the World Cup. Now Fifa has canceled it. André Heller on evasive and substitute ideas, goals that run onto the field and what else we will miss. ”“ Motto: 'The world as a guest of friends.' Austrian multimedia artist André Heller was the artistic director of the prestige company that was brought on the way by the former federal government and then taken over and financed by the international football association Fifa. Extensive preparations have been made for this for a year and a half. Now Fifa has canceled the major event on the grounds that it will damage the lawn in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. "
  28. ↑ Andre Heller takes over Kasperl. In: Vienna. ORF .at, September 21, 2018, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  29. ↑ Ferdinand Sarnitz in conversation with WOMAN: André Heller's son and all his pride! “He is André Heller's only son and is working on his music career as a“ Left Boy ”. In WOMAN, the 20-year-old talks about his sheltered nest, his famous father, toilet sex and dealer friends. ”In: Woman , issue 24/09, 23 November 2009, accessed on 9 May 2019.
  30. ↑ Both quotations from
    Wikiquote: André Heller  - Quotes
    ; for detailed sources see there.
  31. ↑ André Heller receives platinum romy for life's work. In: DerStandard.at / APA , April 20, 2015, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  32. ^ André Heller: Mein Garten - Preliminary remark ( Memento from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on an old version of the Heller Garden website.
  33. ↑ Opening ceremony: legend meets lederhosen. In: Spiegel Online / fpf / AFP / dpa, June 9, 2006, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  34. ↑ International applause for the expanded Swarovski Crystal Worlds. In: OTS / APA press release by Swarovski Crystal Worlds, December 1, 2007, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  35. ↑ Georg Etscheit: Poetry in the Manege. The big traveling circus threatens to become obsolete. The world of magicians and artists is developing into a world of events. In: Die Zeit , No. 14/2011, March 31, 2011 ( article online , accessed May 9, 2019).
  36. ^ Al Noor Island. Embark on an amazing voyage of wonder. (English) In: Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq). Government of Sharjah (Ed.), Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  37. ↑ Agencies / cka: Heller's Moroccan Paradise Garden before opening. An "opulent, botanical staging" near Marrakech. In: Kurier , March 10, 2016, accessed May 9, 2019.
  38. ↑ André Heller's time goddess as protection of the vineyard castle Taggenbrunn. In: ART editorial team. ART editorial team Ges.mbH (publisher), October 18, 2017, accessed on May 9, 2019: “A 15 m high sculpture by André Heller is not only the patron goddess of the largest Carinthian winery, but also a new, artistic landmark of Central Carinthia. Now an exquisite country hotel including a conference center and wine tavern has been opened on Taggenbrunn. "
  39. ↑ Uwe Maass: A reunion after over 20 years. In: Swarovski Crystal Worlds corporate blog, December 7, 2017. See also: Heroes of Peace on the Swarovski Crystal Worlds website. Both accessed on May 9, 2019.
  40. ↑ Berlin State Opera [1] (accessed on February 26, 2020)
  41. ↑ Michaela Schmitz: Obsessed with transforming yourself. Review of André Heller: How I learned to be a child with myself. In: LiteraturhausWien , September 24, 2008.
  42. ↑ André Heller: Wiener land or an intentional Schicksalsnarr. Scattered collected. (“On the 65th birthday of the exceptional artist, André Heller grants a very personal view of his hometown.”) Book Description on the Brandstätter Verlag website, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  43. ↑ André Heller: The book from the south. ("A man and his lifelong longing for the south. The great novel by André Heller.") Book Description on the website of the Hanser Literaturverlage. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  44. ↑ André Heller: There are no more clocks. (“Multimedia artist and author André Heller in conversation with his mother - a book full of wisdom, poetry and wit”.) Book Description on the website of the Hanser Literaturverlage. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  45. ↑ a b Chart sources: Austria Germany
  46. ↑ Awards: Austria
  47. ^ ORF III series of talks: André Hellers Menschenkinder. In: tv. ORF .at / orf3 / stories / - ORF III Culture and Information, undated , accessed on May 9, 2019.
  48. ↑ "I create myself anew every day". André Heller receives the platinum ROMY for his life's work to date. In: Kurier , April 19, 2015, accessed on May 9, 2019. (“I found wonderful like-minded people on ORF III and I'm shooting another ten for this station, after 14 episodes of Menschenkinder so far. The success of these up to 90 minutes I consider constant monologues by exceptional women and men, who openly tell their ways and wrong turns, triumphs and hardships, to be a noble gift. ")
  49. ^ Filmography on Andé Heller's website.
  50. ↑ Chlodwig Poth: The union of body and mind with Richard's help. Fischer, Frankfurt 1982.
personal data
SURNAME Heller, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heller, Andre (real name); Heller, Franz; Heller Franz André; Heller-Huart, Francis Charles Georges Jean André (birth name); Miriflor, André (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian multimedia artist, action artist, cultural manager, author, poet, poet, chansonnier and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna