Georg Tschurtschenthaler

Tschurtschenthaler at the premiere of The Cleaners - Im Schatten der Netzwelt

Georg Tschurtschenthaler (* 1974 in Innichen , Italy ) is a film producer and screenwriter , as well as lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts .

Live and act

Tschurtschenthaler studied economics and communication science at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and initially worked as a management consultant . From 2003 he appeared as a producer, director and screenwriter in the field of documentary films. Since 2009 he has been working for Gebrueder beetz film production . In addition to various documentary film projects , some of which have received multiple awards, such as cultural acts and Midsummer Night's Tango , he realized various cross-media television events such as supernerds , consisting of an interactive TV show , the documentary Digital Dissidents , Suddenlife Gaming , a play and a book or Farewell Comrades! , consist of a six-part television series , book and web documentary.

Tschurtschenthaler lives in Berlin and also teaches regularly at the Zurich University of the Arts and the Institute of Documentary Filmmaking in Prague .

Publications (selection)

As a producer

2010: Eleven uncles
2011: Wadan's World
2011: Farewell comrades! (TV series, six episodes)
2011-2013: Kulturakte (TV series, documentary, six episodes)
2012: The Lithium Revolution (Documentation)
2013: Midsummer Night Tango (Documentation)
2013: Wagnerwahn (documentation)
2014: Berlin Stories (Documentation)
2015: The Tchaikovsky Files - Confessions of a Composer (Documentation)
2015: Digital Dissidents (Documentation)
2018: The Cleaners - Im Schatten der Netzwelt (Documentation)
2019: Stage Fright (Documentation)
2019: The Forum - Will Davos Save the World? (Documentation)

As a screenwriter

2015: Digital dissidents
2016: #Uploading Holocaust (interactive webdocument, conception)
2020: The Forum - Will Davos Save the World? (Documentation)

Awards (selection)

Grimme Prize 2013

Prize winners in the Information for Farewell category , comrades!

International Emmys 2014

Nomination in the documentary category for Wagner madness

Grimme Prize 2019

Winner of the Audience Award of the Marler Group for The Cleaners - In the Shadow of the Net World

Web links

Commons : Georg Tschurtschenthaler - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Bernd Jetschin: The penetration of white noise . In: IDM Südtirol (Ed.): Take - Magazine for professionals . No. 8 . Bolzano 2008, p. 96 ( issuu.com [accessed July 30, 2020]).
↑ SUPERNERDS - A surveillance evening. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
↑ Webdocument Farewell Comrades! about the end of the USSR comes in December. August 12, 2011, accessed July 30, 2020 .
↑ Georg Tschurtschenthaler. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
↑ Farewell, comrades (ZDF / ARTE / rbb). Grimme Institute, accessed on July 30, 2020 .
↑ In the shadow of the net world - The Cleaners. Grimme Institute, accessed on July 30, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tschurtschenthaler, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Candido , Italy

[1] Bernd Jetschin: The penetration of white noise . In: IDM Südtirol (Ed.): Take - Magazine for professionals . No. 8 . Bolzano 2008, p. 96 ( issuu.com [accessed July 30, 2020]).

[2] SUPERNERDS - A surveillance evening. Accessed July 30, 2020 .

[3] Webdocument Farewell Comrades! about the end of the USSR comes in December. August 12, 2011, accessed July 30, 2020 .

[4] Georg Tschurtschenthaler. Accessed July 30, 2020 .

[5] Farewell, comrades (ZDF / ARTE / rbb). Grimme Institute, accessed on July 30, 2020 .

[6] In the shadow of the net world - The Cleaners. Grimme Institute, accessed on July 30, 2020 .