DoRo production

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The DoRo production Ges.mbH is a film production company based in Vienna , founded by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher .

history

Hannes Rossacher (DoRo), Christina Stürmer , Hannes Eder (Universal Music Austria) and Rudi Dolezal (DoRo) at a concert in Linz / Austria in 2005 (from left to right)

Dolezal and Rossacher, also known as “Torpedo Twins”, have been producing various programs on ORF , ARD and ZDF since 1976 , and later with their own production companies, of which the DoRo production was the most important and best known. In addition to music videos , you have also helped shape long-form video and documentary films about musicians.

Works for international artists such as Scorpions , Queen , The Rolling Stones , David Bowie , Miles Davis , Michael Jackson , Bon Jovi , Whitney Houston , Bruce Springsteen or Frank Zappa , but also for German-speaking artists such as Marius Müller-Westernhagen , BAP , Peter Maffay , Herbert Grönemeyer , Nina Hagen , Sandra , Trio , Udo Lindenberg , H-Blockx , Tic Tac Toe , Die Toten Hosen , Die Fantastischen Vier , Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung , Wolfgang Ambros , Georg Danzer , Rainhard Fendrich and Falco brought them worldwide recognition.

The design with which the music channel VIVA started in 1993 came from DoRo, who were among the founders and partners of the channel. After MTV did not want to broadcast Marius Müller-Westernhagen's music videos because he sings in German, they both planned the German music TV broadcaster VIVA for 3 years.

At the end of the 1990s, a network of companies with offshoots in many countries ( USA , Germany , Great Britain , Italy etc.) was established, which traded as DoRo Media AG with the aim of going public. At the end of 2002 most of these companies, including the headquarters in Vienna, filed for bankruptcy.

The nucleus for the new beginning was the Munich branch of DoRo Media AG, which the filmmakers bought back from the leftovers. DoRo is again represented in Vienna via a newly founded subsidiary.

The television productions that have taken place since then include a. a six-part ARTE documentary about political content in pop music ( Get Up, Stand Up ) and artist portraits for the non-commercial US broadcaster PBS ( Sarah Brightman , Billy Joel and José Carreras ).

The production of video clips is no longer operated. For Rossacher, the video business is “exhausted - in commercial and artistic terms. I just don't feel like doing a production for DJ Nerd featuring Miss Talentfrei. "

On November 29, 2019 DoRo GmbH, based in Vienna and Purkersdorf, had to file for bankruptcy. According to the application, the film production company is over-indebted with € 540,000, the reason being an excessive fee claim from a service provider, the loss of the largest client and the embezzlement - a lawsuit is pending - of € 80,000 by a former employee.

Video clips (selection)

Falco :

Queen :

  • One Vision (1985)
  • Friends Will Be Friends (1986)
  • Breakthru / The Invisible Man / Scandal / The Miracle (all 1989)
  • Innuendo / Headlong / I'm Going Slightly Mad / These Are the Days of Our Lives / The Show Must Go On (all 1991)
  • A Winter's Tale / Too Much Love Will Kill You (all 1995)
  • No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young) (1997)

Freddie Mercury :

  • Living on My Own (1985)

Modern Talking :

  • Atlantis Is Calling (SOS for Love) (1986)
  • Jet Airliner (1987)

The Cross :

  • Power to Love (1990; recorded 1989)

Brian May :

  • Too Much Love Will Kill You (1992)
  • Back to the Light (1992)

Roger Taylor :

  • Happiness? (1994)

Sarah Connor :

Rammstein

Longform videos (selection)

Awards

  • Nomination as the first German-speaking director for the video Grammy (for Miles Davis & Quincy Jones Live at Montreux )
  • Bronze Lion at the Advertising Film Festival in Cannes
  • Gold Camera Award from the American Film and Video Festival in Chicago for the music video for Titanic by Falco
  • Grand Prize Grand Award for Best Director of the New York Film Festival
  • Monitor Award from the International Teleproducing Society
  • Awards for the AIDS campaign as a “trend-setting campaign worldwide”, including in New York
  • German record award Echo for four consecutive years (1992–1995) for the video of the year
  • Pop-Amadeus in Austria for three years in a row
  • Video awards from both MTV and VIVA ( Comet ) - multiple times each
  • In 1995, the Vienna film 1001 Pictures of Vienna was recognized as the "world's best tourism film" by CIFFT (Comité International des Festivals du Film Touristique)
  • Austrian State Prize for Film (1996)
  • Silver Medal of Honor of the Republic of Austria for international cultural activity (1993)
  • Dr. Karl Renner Prize for Journalism
  • Two-time winner of the Golden Rose of Montreux as the first Austrian in 30 years for Die Joel by Beate Thalberg (book and direction) and Freddie Mercury - the untold story by Simon Witter (book), Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher (direction)
  • Austrian TV Prize Romy (2002) for The Joel Files by Beate Thalberg (script and direction)
  • 1995 DIVA Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dolezal Backstage at ServusTV. (No longer available online.) In: www.servustv.com. Archived from the original on December 13, 2015 ; accessed on December 11, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.servustv.com
  2. ↑ Quotation from Dorothee Schmidt: Charts without a show . In: Der Tagesspiegel , online edition, April 7, 2006.
  3. ↑ Film production DoRo insolvent orf.at, November 29, 2019, accessed November 29, 2019.