Florian Flicker

Florian Flicker 2013 at the Austrian Film Award

Florian Flicker (born August 21, 1965 in Salzburg ; † August 23, 2014 in Vienna ) was an Austrian director and writer for film and theater.

Life

Flicker's work began in experimental film and expanded cinema . With half the world followed in 1993 his first feature film. In addition, he worked as a documentary filmmaker and at the theater, wrote a radio play and taught at the Vienna Film Academy , among others . His best-known work is the film Der Überfall (2000) with Josef Hader and Roland Düringer in the leading roles. His last film was released in 2012 with Grenzgänger , a film adaptation of Karl Schönherr's Der Weibsteufel , set in the March-Auen .

Flicker died of cancer in 2014 at the age of 49. He had already planned two further projects, a comedic and a political film.

1986–1997: Super 8 short films and various expanded cinema productions with the Pension Export group .
1993: Half World , 83 min., Cinema, science fiction, direction, book (co-author: Michael Sturminger).
1996: Attwenger film, 80 min., Documentary film about the band Attwenger , co-director (with Wolfgang Murnberger and Bernhard Weirather ).
1998: Suzie Washington , 87 min., Cinema, road movie, director, book (co-author: Michael Sturminger ).
2000: Der Überfall (Hold Up) , 84 min., Tragic comedy, director, book (co-author: Susanne Freund ).
2006: No Name City , 86 min., Documentary film, director, book.
2012: Grenzgänger , 87 min., Feature film, director, book.

2008: The Strudlhofstiege, episode 8 (direction & text), Schauspielhaus Wien .
2008: July (director, text: Iwan Wyrypajew ), Schauspielhaus Wien.

2011: Dolphins. Radio play (author, with Wolfgang Stahl; director: Alexander Schuhmacher), NDR .

Suzie Washington. Script and notes on the film . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 1999, ISBN 3-85252-322-2 .
The raid. Script and interviews . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2000, ISBN 3-85252-380-X .
Brandt & Flicker: Premiere Tanzpalast tour ARGE Nonntal 1988 (audio CD, with Markus Brandt). Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz , Weitra 2018, ISBN 978-3-99028-756-9 .

for his work:

for his films:

Half the world
- 1994: Special Jury Prize for the best debut film at the Fantastica Film Festival in Géradmer (Jury: Terry Gilliam , Walter Hill , Dario Argento , Jerry Schatzberg )
- 1994: Coup de Coeur of the Festival du film d'action et d'aventure de Valenciennes
- 1994: 2nd prize at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival in Schwerin
- 1994: Nominations for the Austrian Goldener Kader film award: script, set
Suzie Washington
- 1998: Big Diagonale Prize for the best Austrian film
- 1996: Carl Mayer Screenplay Award
- 1995: Script award from the city of Salzburg
The raid
- 2000: Large Diagonale Prize for the best Austrian film
- 2001: Prize of the Saarland Prime Minister of the Max Ophüls Film Festival in Saarbrücken
- 2001: Lady Harimaguada de Plata (2nd prize, category “Best Fiction”) of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- 1995: Script award from the city of Salzburg
Frontier workers
- 2012: CICAE Art Cinema Award, Sarajevo Film Festival
- 2013: Austrian Film Award in the "Best Screenplay" category

Florian Flicker - close-ups. With contributions by Arno Aschauer, Markus Brandt, Mercedes Echerer , Stephan Eibel , Sabine Groschup , Andrea Grussmann-Schmalzl, Josef Hader , Andi Haller, Peter Klinger, Annemarie Komosny, Hubsi Kramar , Karl Markovics , Jerzy Palacz, Michael Pekler, Goran Rebić , Thomas Renoldner , Michael Sturminger , Ralph Wieser , Michael Wimmer and August Zirner . Provincial Library , Weitra n.d. (2018), 978-3-99028-668-5.

Commons : Florian Flicker - Collection of images, videos and audio files

↑ ^a ^b ^c Filmmaker Florian Flicker has passed away. Article in Der Standard of August 24, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014.