Axel Corti

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Axel Corti (born May 7, 1933 in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris as Leopold Karl Anatole Axel Fuhrmans ; † December 29, 1993 in Oberndorf , Land Salzburg , Austria ) was an Austrian director and publicist .

Life

youth

His father Carl Edgar Fuhrmans was a German businessman of Austrian-Italian origin, his mother Ingeborg, geb. Kutzner came from the Black Forest . His parents came to Paris as early as 1928, where his father was a business partner of the French state railways and sold locomotives; This close relationship to railways and locomotives was also reflected in Axel Corti's later cinematic work.

After the occupation of France in 1940 and the subsequent increasing Nazi terror, his family had to change their place of residence several times until his mother fled with him to Switzerland in 1943. His father - a member of the Resistance - was not granted asylum; he died in 1945.

After the end of the Second World War , the family, expelled from Switzerland, had to move to Italy via Liechtenstein in 1947 , where , through the mediation of a clergyman, he received a passport in the name of Alfonso von Cassino Corti . Corti had to give up an apprenticeship as a farmer started in 1948 because of a serious illness. After stops in exile in England and Germany , he finally came to Austria in 1949. Here he attended evening school in Innsbruck and began training in speaking and acting with the well-known poet and actress Traute Foresti , who was then working there for the Austrian radio .

Radio, theater and television work

From 1951 Corti worked as a radio and newspaper journalist for the “ Sendergruppe West ” set up by the French liberation troops , from 1953 for Radio Innsbruck, where he a. a. Spokesman for the radio station " Hömbergs Kaleidophon " was. From 1955 to 1960 he headed the literature and radio play department of the ORF regional studio in Tyrol.

He then worked as an assistant director at the Vienna Burgtheater and soon afterwards as a director and dramaturge. From 1961 to 1964 Corti also taught directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar .

With the 1969 weekly broadcast to 1993 in the ORF broadcast The silencer he wrote radio history; General director Gerd Bacher had accepted Corti's condition that his texts not have to be submitted to anyone for approval. In addition, he appeared as a director of many radio plays.

After working in Vienna, Corti directed theaters in Oberhausen and Ulm and worked with Peter Brook in London. He filmed literature, designed ORF entertainment programs and shot some commercials.

In 1969, Corti played the leading role in the television play Job Offers, Female (Belvedere), produced by ORF (comedy by Gwen Davenport; television adaptation and direction: Wolfgang Glück ; broadcast on June 5, 1969 in the first TV program of ORF). He also worked as an actor in other television films, for example in 1984 in Donauwalzer (director: Xaver Schwarzenberger ) in the role of Georg Pollak.

For the Vienna State Opera he staged Der arme Sailor (music by Darius Milhaud , text by Jean Cocteau ) and Angélique (music by Jacques Ibert , text by Nino , arranged in German by Corti). The premiere was on October 2, 1970 in the theater in the Redoutensaal of the Hofburg , the conductor was Hans Swarowsky , the equipment was provided by Hubert Aratym ; Mimi Coertse had a star role as Angélique.

advertising

Axel Corti - like other well-known avant-garde artists later - was invited to design commercials for Grazer Schuh & Leder AG, better known as Humanic . The spots "Humanic fits always" (1968) and "Humanic - environmental protection wall" (1973) are by Axel Corti, other artists involved were Andreas Okopenko in 1976 (spot no longer available), in 1977 the singer of the duo Musyl & Joseppa , in 1982 Otto M Zykan and in 1988 HC Artmann .

Film work

Since 1972 Corti has taught at the Vienna Film Academy . As a director he made a name for himself above all with sophisticated literary adaptations such as Franz Werfels A pale blue women's font (1984).

Under the title How they became it, he shot the documentary films Ein Junge Mann aus dem Innviertel (1973) about Adolf Hitler and Der Junge Freud (1976) about Sigmund Freud based on scripts by Georg Stefan Troller .

Private life

Grave of Axel Corti in Arnsdorf (2019)

Axel Corti had been with Cecily Corti , b. Herberstein, married and had three sons with her, Sebastian Corti, Severin Corti , gastronomy critic for various Austrian media, and Caspar Corti. Claudia Vogeler , daughter from a previous relationship with Cortis, lives in Hamburg and works as a film editor.

Axel Corti died on 29 December 1993. before the completion of filming Radetzkymarsch of leukemia . His grave is in the Arnsdorf cemetery in the municipality of Lamprechtshausen near Salzburg .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The silencer. On the 20th anniversary of his death, his entire estate can be viewed. In: Austrian National Library magazine. Vienna, May 2013, issue No. 1, p. 17 online PDF 8.9 MB
  2. ↑ Collection of the Austrian Advertising Museum
  3. ↑ The Fear of Letting Go , Cicero , accessed March 26, 2019
  4. ^ Entry on Dr. Karl Renner Publizistikpreis in the Austria Forum
  5. ^ Axel-Corti-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Corti, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuhrmans, Leopold Karl Anatole Axel; Cassino Corti, Alfonso of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1993
Place of death Oberndorf near Salzburg , Austria