Andreas Hutter

Andreas Hutter (born January 2, 1963 in Linz , Upper Austria ; † April 29, 2016 there ) was an Austrian journalist , author , cultural and film historian .

Life

Hutter completed a degree in journalism and communication science as well as history at the universities of Vienna and Salzburg, which he completed with a doctorate. In 1994 he worked as a documentary in the historical archive of ORF television in Vienna. He then worked as a journalist, since 2001 as head of the cultural department of the Austrian daily newspaper Neues Volksblatt in Linz.

In addition, Hutter was the author of (features) articles for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the St. Galler Tagblatt , Die Presse (Vienna), Profil (Vienna), Aufbau (Zurich) and the film-dienst (Cologne), as well as for the cultural studies Viennese journals Jura Soyfer and Filmarchiv as well as for the Austrian Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He conducted interviews with Dennis Russell Davies , Gertrud Fussenegger , Otto von Habsburg , Gottfried Helnwein , Peter Turrini , Franz Welser-Möst , Simon Wiesenthal and Billy Wilder , among others .

Together with the Filmmuseum Berlin and the Filmarchiv Austria he was co-editor of the journalistic and feuilletonistic work of the Austrian-born US film director Billy Wilder (1906–2002), about whom Hutter (together with Klaus Kamolz ) also wrote a biography.

In 2006 he was a member of the three-person jury for the international literature scholarship "Seeschreiber" of the municipality of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut .

As a historian, he recently specialized in Holocaust victim research; In 2011, for the first time, he was able to clarify in detail the fate of Billy Wilder's family in German concentration camps and the wife of the Austrian writer Joseph Roth in the NS killing center in Hartheim .

Works

Andreas Hutter, Klaus Kamolz: Billie Wilder. A European career. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-205-98868-X
Andreas Hutter: Razor blades in your head. Ernst Spitz - man of letters, journalist, educator. Biography and reader. Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85476-160-0
Rolf Aurich, Andreas Hutter, Wolfgang Jacobsen, Günter Krenn (eds.): "Billie". Billy Wilder's Viennese journalistic work. Verlag filmarchiv austria, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-901932-90-9

Web links

Literature by and about Andreas Hutter in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography and reviews of works by Andreas Hutter at perlentaucher.de
Official website

Individual evidence

↑ "people sheet" -Kulturchef Andreas Hutter died . APA message on Der Standard , May 2, 2016.
↑ Biography ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on andreas-hutter.at
↑ Andreas Hutter, Heinz Peters: Gitla was not on Schindler's list. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from October 6, 2011.
↑ Andreas Hutter: No gentle death for a shy one. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 7, 2011. And: Andreas Hutter: Friederike Roth (1900–1940). About the last few days that 'she did not survive'. Journal for German Studies (Berlin) New Part XXI.3 (Sept. 2011)

personal data
SURNAME	Hutter, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd January 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz
DATE OF DEATH	April 29, 2016
Place of death	Linz

[1] "people sheet" -Kulturchef Andreas Hutter died . APA message on Der Standard , May 2, 2016.

[2] Biography ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on andreas-hutter.at

[3] Andreas Hutter, Heinz Peters: Gitla was not on Schindler's list. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from October 6, 2011.

[4] Andreas Hutter: No gentle death for a shy one. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 7, 2011. And: Andreas Hutter: Friederike Roth (1900–1940). About the last few days that 'she did not survive'. Journal for German Studies (Berlin) New Part XXI.3 (Sept. 2011)