Erwin Wagenhofer

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Erwin Wagenhofer (2014)

Erwin Wagenhofer (born May 27, 1961 in Amstetten , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian author and filmmaker .

Live and act

Erwin Wagenhofer completed his training at the Technological Trade Museum Vienna in the communications engineering and electronics department. This was followed by three years of development work at Philips Austria in its video department. During this time, Wagenhofer made his first short films. As the first of these, he completed the normal terminus in 1981 . His short film The Hole , shot in 1983 , was shown at the Krakow Film Festival.

In 1983 he switched to the film industry, where he worked as a freelance director and camera assistant for various ORF productions as well as feature and documentary films until 1987 . He has been a freelance writer and filmmaker since 1987 . As such, he created his first filmic portrait of an artist in 1988: in The Fragmentary in Art he portrayed Oswald Oberhuber . The film was shown in the ORF show kunst-pieces and at the Austrian Film Festival in Wels .

From 1995 to 2000 he was a lecturer at the Danube University in Krems , where he taught the subjects of camera and TV documentation at the European Journalism Academy. From 2002 to 2010 he was a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna . Since 2001, Wagenhofer has also completed a number of scripts for feature films and documentaries that have not yet been realized. These include the feature film scripts Vergiss Neider! (2001) and Ach Paul ... (2005) as well as the script for the documentary C2H5OH - Ethanol or plain alcohol (2003).

In 2005 Wagenhofer made his first feature-length documentary for the cinema: We Feed the World . The documentary produced by Allegro Film deals with the increasing industrialization of food production and takes a critical look at international agricultural policy, especially the role of the EU in this context. The film reached over 800,000 visitors across Europe, was shown at numerous festivals and received several awards.

On the occasion of World Savings Day , which was celebrated in Germany on October 30, 2008, Wagenhofer's new documentary Let's Make Money was released in German cinemas, and in Austria the next day. The film documents the flow of money in the global financial system and testifies to the unequal distribution of wealth around the world and within societies .

In 2010 Wagenhofer presented his first feature film. Black Brown White tells the story of an Austrian truck driver who not only transports vegetables from Morocco to Austria, but also illegally brings Africans to Spain in his semi-trailer for high pay. In this fictional work, Wagenhofer also points out glaring grievances in the social system of industrialized countries.

Following the topics of the food industry and the money economy, Wagenhofer presented his documentary film Alphabet in 2013 , which takes a critical look at the international education systems.

Filmography

Erwin Wagenhofer (2005)

At the premiere of his film We Feed the World in the Gartenbaukino Wien.

  • 1981: End of the line normal (short film)
  • 1982: Silent Spring (short film)
  • 1983: The Hole (short film)
  • 1988: The fragmentary in art (film portrait, with and about Oswald Oberhuber ; first broadcast: ORF kunst-pieces )
  • 1990: Weather dance (film portrait, with and about Christian Ludwig Attersee ; first broadcast: ORF)
  • 1995: Chasing After The Molecule (documentary, 58 min)
  • 1997: Off Screen (portraits of film businessmen off the screen; first broadcast in "100 Years of Cinema")
  • 1998: People on the river (documentary, first broadcast: ORF Nightwatch)
  • 1999: The Fermented Homeland (first broadcast: Bayerischer Rundfunk )
  • 1999: At home in Europe (documentation)
  • 2000: The Use of Man (film portrait with and about Aleksandar Tišma , 90 min)
  • 2001: Limes ... Action Limes (short documentation)
  • 2002: Moving Vienna (short documentation)
  • 2002: Agnes ... (short film)
  • 2003: Operation Figurini (documentary, 55 min)
  • 2005: We Feed the World (documentary, 100 min)
  • 2008: Let's Make Money (documentary, 110 min)
  • 2010: Black Brown White (movie, 107 min)
  • 2013: Alphabet (documentary, 113 min)
  • 2019: But Beautiful (documentary, 116 min)

Awards

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDb.com: Erwin Wagenhofer
  2. ↑ lumiere.obs.coe.int - database of film attendance figures in Europe (page accessed on October 28, 2008)
  3. ↑ Website Alphabet - the film
  4. ↑ www.enriquerewald.com.ar - Bibliography ( Memento of April 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Wagenhofer, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower Austria