Gernot Friedel
Gernot Friedel (born February 26, 1941 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) is an Austrian theater and television director .
Life
Gernot Friedel grew up in Innsbruck and studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. He then worked as an assistant director at the Burgtheater in Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival . His first own production was The Room Battle by Martin Walser with Susi Nicoletti and Curd Jürgens in Vienna. This was followed, among other things, by productions of Der Alpenkönig and der misanthrope in Vienna, he wants to make a joke in Zurich, judges on his own behalf in Berlin and Medea in Bremen.
From 1974 to 1984 he was Ernst Haeusserman's assistant director , in 1984 he took over as his successor at the Salzburg Festival, directing Jedermann . In 1990 he staged the play for the first time with Helmut Lohner in the title role, and in 1995 he made another new production with Gert Voss in the title role. Until 2001 he was responsible for over 100 performances of Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival .
At the Theater in der Josefstadt and the Vienna Chamber play he directed, among others, the Bockerer , the Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon and Lend Me a Tenor , at the Vienna Volksoper Danton's Death . At the Mörbisch Seefestspiele in 2003 he directed the Lehar operetta Giuditta .
Awards
- 1984: Culture Prize of the Eduard Rhein Foundation together with Martin Gregor-Dellin for Ich bin wie Othello
- 1991: Erich Neuberg Prize for The End of a Long Winter
- 2001: Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg
Publications
- 2003: Egon Friedell - farewell games . Novel biography. Molden, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85485-093-9
- 2015: Herr Specht or The Legend of the Origin of the Carnic Alps , with illustrations by Herwig Zens , Mandelbaum-Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85476-484-7
Filmography (selection)
- 1979: The Brides of Kurt Roidl (TV movie)
- 1979: Little Gifts (TV movie)
- 1981: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Dance of Death (TV movie)
- 1982: I'm like Othello (TV movie)
- 1983: In search of Pythagoras
- 1983: Until the Blood (TV movie)
- 1985: The scene of the crime: hit and miss
- 1988: The Moorish legend
- 1989: Mozart and da Ponte
- 1989: People can sing in countless ways (TV movie)
- 1990: The end of a long winter
- 1991: On the thirteenth day / The 13th day (TV movie)
- 1991: Sold Homeland - The Fire Night (TV movie)
- 1994: Sold Homeland - Plot (TV movie)
- 1995: Hotel Savoy
- 1996: Top Achievement (TV Movie)
- 1998: Everyone for the Mafia
- 1999: Herbert von Karajan 1908–1989 (documentation)
- 1999: Sonny Boys (TV movie)
- 2002: In the River of the Seasons (TV movie)
- 2002: Othello mustn't burst (TV movie)
Web links
- Gernot Friedel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Schausberger awarded the "Jedermann" director with the state's Golden Decoration . Salzburg state correspondence of August 29, 2001, accessed on November 27, 2016.
- ^ Eduard Rhein Foundation: Chronology . Retrieved April 10, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friedel, Gernot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater and television director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee |