Ernst Schmidt jr.

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Ernst Schmidt jr. (* February 28, 1938 in Hadersdorf am Kamp ; † February 9, 1988 in Vienna ) was an Austrian film director .

Live and act

Schmidt grew up in Vienna and Mallon , his father died in Russia in 1943. He attended elementary school in Engelmannsbrunn and Vienna as well as the secondary and commercial school in Vienna. After working as an insurance employee and accountant, he attended the Academy for Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 1961 to 1963 .

In 1963 he began working on the experimental film P.rater , which was released in 1966. It was an experimental documentary film about the Vienna Prater, backed by sound poems by the poet Ernst Jandl . Schmidt Jr. caused a stir. in the same year with bodybuilding , in which he used material actions filmed by Otto Muehl .

In the following years Schmidt jr. to establish itself through festivals, galleries and other non-commercial venues in international underground film . He integrated part of his short film work into the long film Wienfilm 1896-1976 , published in 1977 , a polemical view of the time. His only feature film Die totale Familie (1982) based on the novel Die Merowinger or Die totale Familie von Heimito von Doderer with almost exclusively amateur actors saw itself as a »distortion picture« of Viennese life.

Ernst Schmidt jr. died completely penniless at the age of 49.

literature

  • Herbert Holba: Reclam's German Film Lexicon: Film artists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland , by Herbert Holba, Günter Knorr and Peter Spiegel. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1984. ISBN 3-15-010330-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Ernst Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hadersdorf am Kamp
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1988
Place of death Vienna