Helmut Grasser

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Helmut Grasser at the premiere of Gruber goes (2015)

Helmut Grasser (* 1961 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian film producer from Allegro Film .

Live and act

Helmut Grasser founded the film production company Allegro Film in 1989, which he still manages today and with which he has so far produced over 60 films. In 1993 he directed “Die Wahlkampf” for the only time to date. In that two-hour documentary film he accompanied the Austrian populist Jörg Haider from election event to election event and gave election workers and voters uncommented space for their comments on Jörg Haider and their motives for voting. For this he won the Prix Europa for the best television film of the year. As a producer, he was able to record his greatest success to date with the documentary “We Feed the World” (2005) with over 200,000 visitors in Austria and a multiple of them abroad. In 2013 he won the German Film Award (Lola) for the best documentary "More than honey" (director: Markus Imhof). In 2014, “Das Finstere Tal” (director Andreas Prochaska) won the German “Lola” film award eight times and the Austrian film award nine times, including the award for the best film.

Helmut Grasser is considered a pioneer for genre film in Austria. With "In 3 days you are dead" the horror film gained a foothold in the domestic film scene.

From 1996 to 2001 he was a member of the selection committee of the Austrian Film Institute, and between 2009 and 2012 ?. From 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Vienna Film Fund and since 2002 he has been a member of the European Film Academy. From 1999 to 2005 he was the spokesman for the Association of Austrian Film Producers (AAFP) and then its president until 2006. In that year, after differences of opinion between the commercially oriented, mostly larger film production companies and the small, artistically ambitious companies, the former split off through state funding, which has since been organized in the new Film Austria Association, headed by Helmut Grasser as chairman.

In 2009 Helmut Grasser founded the Academy of Austrian Films together with other Austrian filmmakers. On December 7th, 2014 Helmut Grasser was awarded the Culture Prize of the State of Carinthia.

Awards (selection)

  • 2015: ROMY for "Gruber geht" - Best Cinematography ( Leena Koppe )
  • 2015: Beijing International Film Festival "Gruber goes" - Award for best music
  • 2015: Austrian Film Award for The Finstere Tal as best feature film plus 8 others
  • 2015: Award for innovative production performance from VAM for “Das finstere Tal” for Allegro Film
  • 2014: ROMY for “Das Finstere Tal” as best film (Andreas Prochaska) and best film producer (Helmut Grasser, Stefan Arndt)
  • 2014 Austria Ticket for "The Finstere Tal"
  • 2014: German Film Award - 8 Lolas for Das Finstere Tal u. a. Silver Lola as Best Full-Program Feature Film
  • 2014: Film journalist award “Der papierene Gustl” for Das Finstere Tal as the best Austrian film of the year
  • 2013: German Film Award for “More than Honey” as best full-length documentary
  • 2013: ROMY for “More than Honey” as Best Documentary Cinema
  • 2013: Swiss film award for “More than Honey” - best documentary film and best film music
  • 2013: Bavarian Film Award 2013 for “Das finstere Tal” as best director (Andreas Prochaska) and best actor (Tobias Moretti)
  • 2010: Adolf Grimme Prize for “Half a Life” in the fiction category with personal awards to Nikolaus Leytner (script / director), Franziska Walser, Josef Hader and Matthias Habich (representation)
  • 2010 Austria Ticket for "In the beginning was the light"
  • 2009: German TV Award for Half a Life in the categories of Best Director (Nikolaus Leytner) and Best Actor, Leading Role (Josef Hader).
  • 2009: German Documentary Film Award for "Let's make Money"
  • 2009: Austria Ticket for "Let's make Money"
  • 2009: Austria Ticket for "The Fall of Lemming"
  • 2008: Austria Ticket for "In 3 days you will be dead 2"
  • 2007: Austria Ticket for "You will be dead in 3 days"
  • 2006: Austria Ticket for "We Feed the World"
  • 2006: Motovun International Film Festival Fipresci Prize for "We Feed the World"
  • 2006: Amnesty international human rights film award for “We Feed the World”
  • 2002: Austria Ticket for “Hundstage”
  • 2002 Austrian Film Award for "Dog Days"
  • 2002 Bergen International Film Festival 2002: Jury award to Ulrich Seidl
  • 2001: Venice International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize to Ulrich Seidl for "Dog Days"
  • 2001: Gijón International Film Festival: “Hundstage” Grand Jury Prize to Ulrich Seidl, Special Jury Prize to Maria Hofstätter

Filmography (selection)

As a producer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Furche (weekly newspaper) , May 4, 2006 ( digitized ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ^ Kaernten.orf.at: Culture award for filmmaker Helmut Grasser. Retrieved January 7, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Grasser, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt , Austria