Ernst Kaufmann (director)

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Ernst Kaufmann (2019)

Ernst Kaufmann (born September 23, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian film and theater director and author.

Life

Ernst Kaufmann comes from a family of artists and is the nephew of the famous composer Bruno Granichstaedten . Following these family roots, he first studied music and directing in Vienna and Munich.

After his first successful directing with the play Endstation Zuchthaus by Jack Unterweger in the studio of the Volkstheater in Vienna, ten years of intensive theater work followed. During this time, in addition to the productions, he also developed two performance projects that he produced himself. His work has been shown on many avant-garde stages, such as in the Latin Quarter in Berlin, in the bread factory in Bonn in the slaughterhouse in Wels or in the Vienna Metropol, as well as at some festivals, such as B. the violent autumn of the Wiener Festwochen. His directorial work has received awards from the City of Vienna and the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts .

In 1986, he began working in film, writing and directing documentaries in Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Nigeria. During a longer stay in Canada, in 1994 the founding of the own independent production Trax Entertainment followed . To date, he has written and directed more than forty films, the focus of his work is on documentaries and short films.

As an author, Ernst Kaufmann works on cookbooks based on old monastery recipes and on novel biographies. In the field of scripts, he mainly works on literary material (e.g. Malte Laurids Brigge based on Rainer Maria Rilke or King Lear based on Shakespeare ) and writes film portraits.

Ernst Kaufmann lives and works in Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2019: The Big Jump (cinema documentary, 80 min., Distributor: Kinostar)
  • 2013: Time of Legends (TV documentary, 25 min., BR-Alpha)
  • 2010: Requiem for Rose (drama, short film, 10 min.)
  • 2009: The turning point - prehistoric settlements in the Vienna Woods (TV documentary, 45 min., BR-Alpha)
  • 2008: Searching (experimental film, 6 min.)
  • 2006: Dietmar Schönherr - Do you like what you want? (TV portrait, 45 min., ORF, 3-Sat, Phoenix)
  • 2005: Zündstoff Fußball - Das Wiener Derby (TV documentary, 70 min., Premiere Austria)
  • 2004: The Last Minoan (documentary, 50 min., Ebensee cinema)
  • 2003: Weihrauch und Fetzng'wand - Customs in Ebensee (TV documentary, 35 min., BR-Alpha)
  • 2002: Felix Mitterer (TV portrait, 45 min., ORF, 3-Sat, BR-Alpha)
  • 2001: Home Run (Comedy, TV film, 80 min.)
  • 2001: No beautiful country - theater and Nazi regime (TV documentary, 45 min., BR-Alpha)
  • 1997: Nine Mens Morris (drama, short film, 20 min.)
  • 1996: Climatic Alliance - Resistance of Brazilian Indians (short documentary, 20 min.)
  • 1995: My little America (road movie, short film, 10 min.)
  • 1994: Algoma - A Piece of Nature (short documentary, 12 min.)

Theater (selection)

Literary works

Books:

  • I may be crazy, but not stupid! (together with Arnold Rubel) - Stories from Psychiatry, Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86265-495-6
  • Heavenly Piquant - Secret from the monastery kitchen - Cookbook, Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-370250765-7
  • Vienna Heart on Stars and Stripes - Biography Bruno Granichstaedten, Verlag Edition AV, Lich 2014, ISBN 978-386841096-9
  • Sinfully Sweet - Secret things from the monastery kitchen - Cookbook, Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2013, ISBN 978-370250720-6

Scripts:

  • Our Father (feature film) - drama of a father-son conflict
  • Lear (feature film) - contemporary adaptation based on William Shakespeare
  • Die Reisen des Brigge (feature film) - Based on the notes of Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Home Run (feature film) - Comedy about three young actors
  • Siberia (feature film) - Based on the play by Felix Mitterer
  • The Carmen Syndrome (feature film) - crime comedy
  • Nine Men's Morris (short film) - Based on an old Japanese Nò theater
  • Requiem for Rose (short film) - Drama based on a true story
  • And cried the same tears (game documentary) - inquisition and abuse of power
  • Granichstaedten (documentary film) - the life of the famous Jewish composer
  • Gods-Warrior-Cultures (Documentary - 3-part) - Archaic settlements around Vienna
  • Research, conception and text for a variety of TV documentaries

Pieces and arrangements:

  • All roads lead to Rome (satire)
  • The Homecoming (comedy)
  • Meret Oppenheim (Biographical Performance)
  • The night of the murderers (performance based on Josè Triana)
  • Marionette (performance)
  • Editing and dramaturgy in around 20 theater productions

Festival participation and prizes

  • 'Unimovie' (International Section) / Pescara, Italy / 'Nine Mens Morris'
  • 'Cortometraggio' - Int. Shortfilm Festival (Filmmarket) / Imola / Bologna, Italy / 'Nine Mens Morris'
  • 'Internat. Shortfilmfestival '/ Innsbruck, Austria. / 'My little America' - Silver award for best director
  • 'Nightwave' - Shortfilm Show / Rimini, Italy / 'My little America'
  • 'Cortometraggio' - Int. Shortfilm Festival (Main Selection) / Imola / Bologna, Italy / 'My little America'
  • 'Tabu-Theater-Festival' / Vienna, Austria / Theater performance 'The Night of the Murderers'
  • Festival 'Heftiger Herbst' / Vienna, Austria. / Theater performance 'Meret Oppenheim'
  • 'Promotion Prize' of Vienna Culture
  • 'Acknowledgment Prize' of the Federal Ministry for Education and Art / staging 'Endstation Zuchthaus'
  • 'Working grant' from the BM for teaching and art / Granichstaedten Biography, research in America
  • 'Purchase funding' of Vienna culture, Ref. Science and Research Funding / 'Vienna Heart on the Stars and Stripes'

Web links

Commons : Ernst Kaufmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Frey: Bruno Granichstaedten in the dictionary of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era [1] - wedding with Rosalie Kaufmann in New York in February 1940
  2. ↑ Arbeiterzeitung | AZ of January 22, 1986 - Jack Unterweger: Writing means surviving
  3. ↑ Wiener Zeitung of January 21, 1986 - The human being as a number
  4. ^ Courier of January 21, 1986 - premiere for prisoners
  5. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost of March 18, 1987 - Wüstes drama on the Vienna Thespiskarren
  6. ↑ Bonner Rundschau of October 2, 1986 - first performance of a drama in the bread factory
  7. ^ Bonner Generalanzeiger | Feuilleton from October 7, 1986 - The life of a prisoner
  8. ↑ Welser Zeitung of March 6, 1986 - Triste prison world
  9. ↑ Die Presse of March 7, 1987 - Parental murder of the Tabu Theater in the Metropol in the ÖNB archive
  10. ^ Courier of March 7, 1987 - Kill the parents! in the ÖNB archive
  11. ↑ Monika Mertl in Die Bühne, December 1987 - Premature Harvest - For the Avantgarde Festival Heftiger Herbst
  12. ↑ Ingrid Dengg in the Arbeiterzeitung | AZ Kultur from November 17, 1987 - Who was Meret Oppenheim?
  13. ↑ https://www.falter.at/creation-production/11399/trax-entertainment-international
  14. ^ TV Fund Austria: The Wiener Derby production data
  15. ^ Austrian Film Institute: The Big Jump production data
  16. ^ Verlag Anton Pustet: Secret things from the monastery kitchen [2]
  17. ^ Verlag Edition AV: Vienna Heart on Stars and Stripes [3]
  18. ↑ TV Fund Austria: Do you like what you want? Production data
personal data
SURNAME Businessman, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film and theater director and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna