Hans A. Guttner

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Hans Andreas Guttner (born May 6, 1945 in St. Christophen , Lower Austria ) is a German-Austrian filmmaker , director , author and producer . He was one of the first to make long documentaries for the cinema and to develop a special narrative form for them. At the beginning of the 1980s he initiated the Munich International Documentary Film Festival, was on the board of directors of the filmmaker's distribution association and is a member of ag dok and the EDN (European Documentary Network).

life and work

Guttner studied law and psychology in Vienna (doctorate), communication and theater studies in Munich. In 1976 he founded Sisyphos Film Munich. After a series of short films that were shown as supporting films in the cinemas, he had his first major success with the film Alamanya Alamanya - Germania Germania at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 1979. The film was then shown and thematized in different language versions in more than 50 countries as one of the first German films the topic of labor migration. The film was the beginning of a pentalogy, Europe - A Transnational Dream (1979–1996), which was followed by the long documentary films Family Villano Does Not Return (1981), In No Man's Land (1983), Dein Land ist mein Land (1989) and Criss-Cross (1996). In the meantime, Alamanya Alamanya - Germania Germania and the Villano family is not returning as a classic of German documentary films.

Guttner's later work also includes documentaries for television (Die Megaklinik, 2004, The Urfa Bazaar, 2006, Happy Journey, 2009). Most recently, the feature documentary Art Comes from Need (2010) was made about the abstract painter Sean Scully.

Films (selection)

  • Alamanya Alamanya - Germania Germania (1979)
  • The Villano Family Does Not Return (1981)
  • The Kings of the Whole Wide World (1983)
  • In No Man's Land (1984)
  • Advocate (1986)
  • Your country is my country (1989)
  • A success story (1990)
  • The Load (1991)
  • Criss-Cross (1996)
  • A candle for the Madonna (1997)
  • Course for the future (2003)
  • The Megaclinic (2004)
  • Setting the Course (2005)
  • The Urfa Bazaar (2006)
  • Sean Scully: Against the Current (2007)
  • The tailor boy of Urfa (2008)
  • Happy Journey (2009)
  • Art Comes from Need (2010)
  • Gray Wolf (2011)

Festival participation

Paris, New York, Chicago, Figueroa da Foz, San Sebastian, Mannheim, Nyon, Marseille, Frankfurt, Florence, Salerno, Munich, Oberhausen, Bilbao, Dortmund, Huesca, Duisburg, Augsburg, Hyderabad, Damascus, Berlin, Thessaloniki, Ankara, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Belfast, Szolnok, Bydgoszcz, Santa Rosa, Columbus

Awards

  • German Film Critics' Prize
  • Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
  • William Dieterle Film Award
  • Trofeo Golfo di Salerno
  • Honorable Mention Award (Columbus Film Festival)
  • BMI awards (four films)
  • "Particularly valuable" rating (three films)
  • Production funding by the FFA, the Kuratorium Junge Deutscher Film, the Hamburg Filmbüro, the Filmbüro Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Hessische Filmbüro and the FFF-Bayern
  • MEDIA II, MEDIA PLUS - funding programs of the European Commission

Publications

  • What is a documentary? In: Thomas Schadt / House of Documentary Film (Ed.): The documentary film as an author's film . Stuttgart 1999, p. 93 ( excerpt )
  • From Germania to Germany , in: Kinofenster No. 11/2002 ( full text )
  • Filmic stories of migration , in: Julia Bayer, Andrea Engl, Melanie Liebheit (eds.): Strategies of approach. Representations of the stranger on German television . Horlemann Verlag: Bad Honnef 2004, pp. 62–77 ( full text as PDF )

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personal data
SURNAME Guttner, Hans A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guttner, Hans Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Christophen , Lower Austria, Austria