Christian Frosch (director)

Christian Frosch (* 1966 in Waidhofen an der Thaya ) is an Austrian film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Christian Frosch completed his photography training at the Federal Higher Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna . He then first attended the Vienna Film Academy , later he switched to the German Film and Television Academy Berlin , where he successfully completed his studies.

He was awarded the Carl Mayer Screenplay Prize for the screenplay for his cinema debut Die totaleherapie (1996) with Blixa Bargeld . His second feature film k.af.ka fragment (2001) with Lars Rudolph in the role of Franz Kafka received the Pearl of the World Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the special jury award at the Kinotawr film festival in Sochi . In 2002 he founded the production company weltfilm together with Kristina Konrad and Ursula Scribano . For the film From now on no turning back (2014) he was awarded the Austrian Film Prize 2016 in the category Best Screenplay , the film was also awarded the Diagonale Audience Award 2015 and as part of the Edition Austrian Film by Hoanzl and the Standard released on DVD. In 2017 he shot the film Murer - Anatomy of a Process with Karl Fischer in the role of Franz Murer , for which Christian Frosch also wrote the screenplay.

Christian Frosch is a member of the Academy of the Austrian film , in association film directing Austria and the Austrian Directors Association and the screenplay Forum Vienna . He lives in Berlin and Baden near Vienna .

Filmography (selection)

• 1986: Interventions (director)
• 1987: Depraved Shore (Director)
• 1987: Studio Schönbrunn (director)
• 1991: Europe wants to die (director and screenplay)
• 1993: The Darkness and Its Property (Director)
• 1994: Sisi at Gödöllö Castle (director and screenplay, co-producer)
• 1996: Total Therapy (Director and Screenplay)
• 1996: Seasickness on dry land (short film, director and screenplay, producer)
• 1997: Gesches Gift (screenplay)
• 2002: K.af.ka fragment (director and screenplay)
• 2005: Our America (documentary, screenplay)
• 2007: Weisse Lilien (director and screenplay)
• 2011: Love Songs for Scumbags (co-producer)
• 2012: The Place We Left (documentary, producer)
• 2014: No turning back from now on (director and screenplay)
• 2014: Resort (short film, producer)
• 2015: Line 41 (documentation, co-producer)
• 2017: Shot in the Dark (Documentary, Producer)
• 2018: Murer - Anatomy of a Process (Direction and Screenplay)

Awards and nominations (selection)

• 1994: Carl Mayer Screenplay Prize for Total Therapy
• 2005: Carl Mayer Screenplay Award for Vanitas
• For no turning back from now on :
  • 2015: Diagonale - Audience Award for
  • 2016: Austrian Film Award 2016 - Award in the Best Screenplay category
• For Murer - Anatomy of a Process
  • 2018: Diagonale - Grand Diagonale Prize / Best Fiction Film
  • 2018: Viennale - Vienna Film Prize - Special Jury Prize
  • 2019: Austrian Film Award 2019 - Award in the category Best Fiction Film , nomination in the categories Best Director and Best Screenplay
  • 2019: Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award (main award)
  • 2019: Romy Awards 2019 - Nomination in the category Best Director Feature Film

Web links

• Christian Frosch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Christian Frosch at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Christian Frosch. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on January 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Weltfilm: Christian Frosch: Biography . Retrieved on January 23, 2018.
3. ↑ Austrian Film Institute: Murer - Anatomy of a process . Retrieved on January 23, 2018.
4. ^ Association of Austrian film directors: Christian Frosch . Retrieved on January 23, 2018.
5. ^ ^{A b} Austrian Directors Association - Members: Christian Frosch . Retrieved on January 23, 2018.
6. ^ Script forum Vienna: Christian Frosch . Retrieved on January 23, 2018.
7. ↑ orf.at: "Murer" and Geyrhalter-Doku get main prizes ( Memento from March 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated March 17, 2018, accessed March 17, 2018.
8. ↑ orf.at: Viennale 2018: rain of prizes and good occupancy . Article dated November 8, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018.
9. ↑ Austrian Film Prize 2019: Nominations . Retrieved December 6, 2018.
10. ↑ Prize winners Austrian Film Prize 2019 . Accessed January 30, 2019.
11. ↑ Thomas Pluch Script Awards 2019 . Retrieved March 22, 2019.
12. ^ Kurier: The nominations of the ROMY Academy 2019 . Article dated March 26, 2019, accessed March 26, 2019.