Bernd Fischerauer

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Bernd Fischerauer (2009)

Bernd Fischerauer (born March 11, 1943 in Graz ; † May 15, 2017 in Munich ) was an Austrian director , actor , screenwriter and novelist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Graz, Bernd Fischerauer studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in 1961 and graduated in 1965 with the directing class. His main fields of work were theater and television.

In 1968 he directed the first performance in Graz of Wolfgang Bauer's first work Magic Afternoon (with Herwig Seeböck ). From 1969 he staged at the Vienna Volkstheater under the direction of Gustav Manker , where he became the main director of young Austrian authors such as Wolfgang Bauer ( Change , 1969, Silvester or Das Massaker im Hotel Sacher , 1971), Peter Turrini (Rozznjogd , Sauschlachten , Der tollste Day) as well as Heinrich von Kleist's The Broken Jug (with Helmut Qualtinger ), Hartmut Lange's The Countess von Rathenow and Elias Canetti's wedding .

Wolfgang Bauer's production of Change at the Volkstheater Vienna was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 1970 . Fischerauer then turned it into a script and made his debut as a film director with Change in 1975 . In 1971/1972 he received the Karl Skraup Prize for best director. He also directed the four-hour television production Blut und Ehre - Jugend unter Hitler (1982).

His television film Love and Further Disasters (1999) brought the leading actors the Bambi , himself a nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize . Fischerauer played the role of Bishop von Galen in Costa-Gavras ' 2002 film adaptation of the literary version of The Deputy after Rolf Hochhuth .

Typical of his work, which is often tied to his homeland, are Die Wiesingers , Der Salzbaron , Apollonia or Gipfelsturm . The Regina series on the steps also had international success.

Starting in 2009, Fischerauer devoted himself to the ten-part series From Reich to Republic, launched by the education channel ARD-alpha (until 2014: BR-alpha), to topics from contemporary history between 1862 and 1949. The following feature films and documentary dramas are included in the series Directed by Fischerauers published:

title Publishing year Treated period theme
Hitler in court 2009 1924 Hitler trial in Munich in 1924.
The state is there for people 2009 1948-1949 Drafting of the Basic Law by the Parliamentary Council 1948/49.
Violent peace 2010 1918-1920 Stab in the back legend , Peace Treaty of Versailles and the suppression of the Spartacus uprising of the USPD and KPD by the MSPD under Friedrich Ebert and Gustav Noske . Two-piece.
Counterrevolution 2011 1920 Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch .
The seizure of power 2012 1932 The history of the Nazi seizure of power from the summer of 1932.
The establishment of an empire 2012 1862-1871 Prussian constitutional conflict 1862-1866, German federation wars 1864-1871 and unification in 1871. The Biography of a close as the film deals mainly with the dominant role of Otto von Bismarck in Prussia from 1862 to 1871.
The nervous great power 2012 1871-1898 Bismarck's authoritarian style of government in domestic affairs ( Kulturkampf , socialist laws ) and his complex system of alliances based on compromise in foreign policy ( Triple Alliance ) from 1871 onwards, as well as the eventual break with the fickle and insistent Kaiser Wilhelm II , who was dismissed from Bismarck in 1890 and the German Reich leads on a sustainable collision course with its neighbors.
Europe's last summer 2012 1914 Diplomatic initiatives during the July crisis in 1914 after the assassination attempt on Archduke Franz Ferdinand .
The way to power 2012 1929-1932 Rise of the NSDAP to a mass party as a result of the Great Depression from 1929 to summer 1932.

Outside of the above series From the Reich to the Republic , "Frei" (2014) traces the escape of a high-ranking SS officer to South America on the rat lines .

Fischerauer also wrote the following books:

Private life

Bernd Fischerauer lived with his wife, the actress Rita Russek , in Munich and on Elba.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Talea de Freese: Rita Russek - your beloved husband Bernd († 74) lost the battle against cancer. In: Bunte . Hubert Burda Media , May 15, 2017, accessed on May 16, 2017 .
  2. ↑ 19.20–20.20 p.m. ZDF. Regina on the steps. In: Der Spiegel . January 6, 1992, accessed May 16, 2017.
  3. ↑ series From Empire to Republic on the website of the Bavarian Television
  4. ↑ Information on the series Vom Reich zur Republik on the website of the publishing house Wiss.Con, which specializes in educational media
  5. ↑ series From Empire to Republic on fernsehserien.de.
  6. ↑ The state is there for people as part of the series Vom Reich zur Republik on the website of Bavarian television
  7. ↑ http://www.br.de/fernsehen/bayerisches-fernsehen/programmkalender/sendung361858.html ( Memento from January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ The counter-revolution - the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch. In: ARD-alpha . Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The Counterrevolution (2011). In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  10. ↑ The seizure of power. In: ARD-alpha . Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The Road to Power (2012); The seizure of power (original title). In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  12. ^ The foundation of the empire as part of the series Vom Reich zur Republik on the Bavarian television website
  13. ^ The nervous great power as part of the series Vom Reich zur Republik on the website of Bavarian TV
  14. ↑ http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/ard/themenwochen/174553/index.html
  15. ↑ The way to power as part of the series Vom Reich zur Republik on the website of the Bavarian television
  16. ↑ https://www.br.de/presse/inhalt/pressemitteilungen/frei-fernsehfilm-100.html
personal data
SURNAME Fischerauer, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director, actor, screenwriter and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 15th May 2017
Place of death Munich , Bavaria , Germany