Ferry Windberger
Franz Ferdinand Windberger (born October 8, 1915 in Preßburg ; † October 14, 2008 in Wiener Neustadt ) was an Austrian film architect and set designer .
Life
Franz Ferdinand "Ferry" Windberger, who comes from today's Slovakian capital Bratislava, studied eight semesters at the Technical University in Vienna (1934–38) after leaving school in 1934 and between 1938 and 1941 attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts for six semesters . He received his stage design diploma in 1942.
Ferry Windberger first came into contact with the theater in the summer of 1938, as an assistant stage designer and actor at the Salzburg Festival . In 1940 he made his debut as a set designer and set designer for Vienna's comedy, and in the 1941/42 season Windberger moved to the Stadttheater Baden near Vienna . At the same time (1941/42) he was appointed as a university assistant at his former alma mater , the Academy of Fine Arts. Between 1942 and 1944 Windberger was active at the municipal theaters in Brno . From 1958 to 1961 Windberger staged several operettas for the Mörbisch Seefestspiele : Johann Strauss ' One Night in Venice and The Gypsy Baron , Paul Abrahams Viktoria and her Husar as well as Emmerich Kálmán's Countess Mariza and Die Csárdásfürstin .
Until the beginning of the 1960s, Windberger largely abstained from film, and since then he has designed several domestic entertainment productions from the hand of director Franz Antels . Nevertheless, the stage remained Prof. Windberger's main field of activity: from the late 1950s until well into the 1980s he was the chief outfitter of the Raimund Theater in Vienna . 1981 Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna, 1982 appointment as Professor hc.
Ferry Windberger also worked as a painter, specializing in genre painting .
Filmography
- 1949: We just got married
- 1963: Sing, but don't play with me
- 1963: With the best of recommendations
- 1963: Red lips should be kissed ( the whole world is sky blue )
- 1964: Our great aunts in the South Seas
- 1965: Shots every 3/4
- 1965: Show - Charme - Chansons (TV show)
- 1965: Just arrived (TV show)
- 1966: 00Sex at Wolfgangsee
- 1968: Otto is keen on women
- 1969: All kittens like to snack
- 1969: Why did I only say yes twice?
- 1970: Ms. landlady does it even better now
- 1972: Frau Wirtin's great little daughter
- 1974: When girls blow maneuvers
- 1978: The Love Hotel in Tyrol
- 1985: Private Passions
- 1986: Johann Strauss - The King without a Crown
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 414.
Web links
- Ferry Windberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Seefestspiele Mörbisch production statistics 1957-2005 ( Memento from December 31, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Windberger, Ferry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Windberger, Franz Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film architect and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pressburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 2008 |
| Place of death | Wiener Neustadt |