Felix Breisach
Felix Breisach (born March 23, 1961 in Graz ) is an Austrian director and producer with a focus on cultural documentaries and artist portraits. Breisach lives and works in Vienna .
Life
Felix Breisach is a son of the writer, cultural manager and radio director Emil Breisach . From 1983, worked Felix Breisach as manager and production manager for the ORF , subsequently for BBC , RAI , ZDF and for American film productions. He completed internships with Herbert Wise in London and with ZDF in Munich .
From 1986 to 1990 Felix Breisach was employed as an editor at ORF in the editorial department of art pieces . His area of activity included the development of national and international cultural topics and their implementation.
Felix Breisach has been working as a freelance producer and director since 1990 and has worked for television stations in the course of this. He produced documentaries in the field of art and culture or directed for ORF , ZDF , NHK , BBC , RAI , WDR , BR , ARTE , ARD , NDR .
Breisach is the designer and producer of “around 150 documentaries” in the field of art and culture “and just as many with opera and theater”. There were a total of 500 programs by March 2014 that he had worked on. He produced portraits of Pierre Boulez , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Thomas Hampson , Franz Welser-Möst , Sven-Eric Bechtolf , Franz Schubert , Johann Strauss , Vito Acconci , Joe Zawinul . Breisach designed the break film for the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic eight times .
Felix Breisach's first feature film was released in 2014. Breisach produced jointly with the Israeli director Vanessa Lapa in co-production with ORF and the Israeli TV channel yes a documentary on Heinrich Himmler : the decent one (Engl. The decent one ). The documentary is based on the discovery of 276 letters from Himmler and his wife. The film was named Best Documentary at the Jerusalem International Film Festival and participated in numerous film festivals.
With the Grätzl and town series Mein Bezirk , in which celebrities talk about their childhood in the respective locality, Breisach has been attracting a high level of audience interest since 2011.
Breisach is married to the Munich violinist Maud Breisach, b. Piete.
Films (selection)
- 2015: Break film: The Boulevard - The Wiener Ringstrasse 1865–2015 , at the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic 2015 .
- 2014: My Graz. Director: Felix Breisach and Heribert Fuchs, August 4, 2014 on ORF 2 .
- 2014: Where heaven and earth meet. 900 years of Klosterneuburg Abbey . Script and direction: Felix Breisach.
- 2014: Break film: Backstage , at the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic 2014 .
- 2012: Franz Welser-Möst . New Years Day 2013, ORF 2 .
- 2011: In search of Mahler . With Thomas Hampson , script and direction: Felix Breisach.
- 2009: La Bohème in the skyscraper. Live broadcast, September 29, 2009, SF 1 , TSR 1 , RSI LA 1 , HD suisse and arte .
- 2004: Johann Strauss - father. Life a dance. 60 min., ORF, arte
- 2003: The strangest Viennese in the world. Concentus Musicus for the 50th anniversary. 45 min., ORF, BR
- 2002: Hugo Wolf - night walker and fire rider. Documentation, 45 min., ORF
- 2001: Picasso's hairdresser. Documentation, 60 min., Arte , ORF
- 1997: Schubert 97 . Script and direction: Felix Breisach, ORF, BR
- 1994: Lester Bowie and the Art Ensemble of Chicago . ARD
Productions (selection)
- 2014: Stories from the Vienna Woods , Bregenz Festival , picture direction
- 2014: Mozart trilogy (concert version) with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in the Theater an der Wien
- 2013: Christmas in Vienna , Wiener Konzerthaus , picture direction
- 2013: La fanciulla del West , Vienna State Opera
- 2013: The Abduction from the Seraglio , live from Hangar-7 , image direction
- 2013: The Magic Flute , Bregenz Festival, picture direction
- 2013: The Merchant of Venice , Bregenz Festival, image direction
- 2013: Ritter Bluebeard , direction
- 2013: Traces of the Confused , by Philip Glass , world premiere, image direction
- 2012: Christmas in Vienna , Wiener Konzerthaus , picture direction
- 2012: The Magic Flute , WA Mozart, new production of the Salzburg Festival 2012
- 2012: Overture spiritual. Mozart: Litaniae, concert in the cathedral Salzburg Festival 2012
- 2012: Heidelberger Frühling , opera gala with Thomas Hampson and Luca Pisaroni
- 2011: Falstaff . Zurich Opera , musical direction: Daniele Gatti , production: Sven-Eric Bechtolf , direction : Felix Breisach
- 2011: Hollywood in Vienna from the Wiener Konzerthaus , picture direction
- 2011: André Chénier , live from the Bregenz Festival , image direction
- 2011: Wiener Festwochen on ORF , image direction
- 2008: Joe Zawinul's Earth Time. ORF , Swiss television .
- 2005: musically culinary. Giuseppe Verdi / Strauss and family. Director: Georg Madeja, 45 min. Each, ORF, 3Sat
- 1997: Erik Satie . Design: Felix Breisach (Silver Rose from Montreaux in the category ‹Best Cultural Documentation›)
Web links
- Felix Breisach media workshop
- Felix Breisach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Movies
- Video: My Linz. 2016, 58:19 min., Felix Breisach in conversation while walking with Wolfgang Böck , Mercedes Echerer , Frank Elstner , Peter Huemer .
- The decent - film page (English, Hebrew, German, French)
Concert recordings
- Norbert Mayer : Felix Breisach shows great opera. In: Die Presse , March 29, 2014
- "Backstage - The New Year's Concert 2014": Felix Breisach's ORF film during the concert break takes a look behind the scenes. In: ORF 2 , January 1, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Obituary notice: Emil Breisach. In: Kleine Zeitung , January 13, 2015, accessed on May 2, 2020.
- ^ Norbert Mayer: Felix Breisach shows great opera. In: Die Presse , March 29, 2014.
- ^ APA : Banality of Hell: Himmler documentary premiered in Berlin. In: Die Presse , February 11, 2014.
- ↑ Festivals. In: The Decent , 2015, accessed on August 31, 2017.
- ↑ ORF has more "Mein ..." episodes produced. In: Der Standard , August 24, 2014.
- ↑ Felix Breisach: Thanks to our viewers !!! 405,000 viewers for “Mein Hietzing” and 345,000 for “Mein Döbling”. In: Facebook , August 30, 2016.
- ↑ Maud Breisach, Maud Piete. In: StayFriends , accessed May 2, 2020.
- ↑ Maud Breisach: About me. In: Maud Breisach Geigenschule , 2016, accessed on May 2, 2020.
- ↑ Maud Breisach-Piete. In: sirene opera theater , accessed on May 2, 2020.
- ↑ APA : ORF New Year's “matinee”: New Year's concert 2015, Strauss documentary, Mehta portrait, opening film and “pause film” about Ringstrasse. In: ORF , December 31, 2014, accessed on January 2, 2015.
- ↑ My Graz. In: Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt , 2014, film images.
- ↑ Summary: Where heaven and earth meet. ( Memento from August 31, 2017 in the archive.today web archive ). In: 3sat , 2016. Film images: 900 years Klosterneuburg Abbey. In: Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt , 2014.
- ↑ APA: “New Year's Concert 2014” live on ORF: Michael Beyer stages the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Ballet. In: ORF , December 10, 2013, accessed on January 5, 2015.
- ^ Franz Welser-Möst. In: Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt , 2013, film images.
- ↑ In Search of Mahler. In: Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt , 2011, film images with table of contents (English).
- ↑ Press kit: «La Bohème in the high-rise». In: Schweizer Fernsehen , 2009, (PDF; 13 p., 262 kB).
- ↑ Joe Zawinul's Earth Time. In: Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt , 2008, film images with quotations from Zawinul.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breisach, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian director and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |