Herbert Eisenschenk

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Herbert Eisenschenk (born February 5, 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian documentary filmmaker and book author. He lives in Frankfurt / Main and Vienna.

Life

Eisenschenk was born and raised in Vienna. In his childhood he spent a long time on a mountain farm in Styria . A musical impression came through the four-year stay with the Vienna Boys' Choir .

Eisenschenk studied psychology , indology and musicology in Vienna . He graduated with honors from studying music theater directing at the University of the Performing Arts in Vienna.

Eisenschenk has worked as a film and TV director since 1988. His first book was published in 2017.

Working method

Work as a filmmaker

Documentation is the focus of Eisenschenk's cinematic work. In 2003 he founded the film production company Vermeer-Film in Vienna.

Content and role models

The focus of his films is on subjects from the arts, with a focus on music and the visual arts, as well as questions about life alternatives and social utopias.

Eisenschenk names the films by Werner Herzog (Gesualdo, Where the green ants dream),  Wim Wenders feature film Lisbon Story and Andrej Tarkowski as models for his own work .

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Eisenschenk's artistic work focuses on considerations of classical art and culture. So he has u. a. Produced artist portraits of personalities from painting and music for Arte , ORF , ZDF , 3sat and various ARD broadcasters . Eisenschenk is also responsible for writing and directing most of his productions.

During his studies, Eisenschenk made his first extensive trips to India, and since then he has shared a "great love for Indian culture, for the country, its people, not least for its great cuisine." In continuation of his film documentary "Auroville - Another World is Possible." "(2013) about the international community founded in 1968 in southern India , the book" Experiment Auroville: Living at Your Own Risk ", which was published in October 2016, was created.

Filmography

  • 1988: "I've always been lucky" - TV portrait of the composer Gottfried von Eine
  • 1989: “The Skyscraper” - film portrait about the German-American architect Helmut Jahn
  • 1991: "The heirs of Mozart - The city of Salzburg and the legacy of its three Mozart institutions" - 150 years of the Mozarteum
  • 1992: "Only Don Giovanni eats alone" - TV report about the Salzburg Festival
  • 1992: "Edelweiss is also just a flower - the myth and reality of the Trapp family and the story of the world success 'Sound of Music'"
  • 1999: "A museum is created" (on the creation of the " Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin " museum )
  • 1999: "The Man in the Paper Suit" (about the artist James Rosenquist )
  • 2004: "Myth of Modernism - Music of the 20th Century"
  • 2004: "Border Sounds - The Phenomenon G. Ligeti "
  • 2005: "Future Opera - Opera with a future?"
  • 2005: "Wolfgang Who?" Game documentation Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • 2006: "Do you know Bruckner? Michael Heltau looking for traces"
  • 2007: “A tower in Kassel? Documenta 12 "
  • 2007: “A question of honor? The duel"
  • 2007: "Pianist and more - Markus Hinterhäuser"
  • 2008: "Have you heard Haydn today?"
  • 2008: “Why me? The power of destiny"
  • 2009: "The Power in the Floor - The Audience"
  • 2010: "Everything is possible - the Wiener Kammerspiele"
  • 2010: "The last act - le nu absolu"
  • 2012: "Desire and Longing - Arthur Schnitzler"
  • 2012: "Gustav Klimt - the mysterious"
  • 2013: "Eros, death and music - the phenomenon of musical contact"
  • 2013: "Auroville - another world is possible"
  • 2014: "Not only Frankenstein - the composer HK Gruber"
  • 2015: "Out of silence - the healing power of sounds"
  • 2017: "Egon Schiele"

Short film

As part of the ORF-BR broadcasting line "To be continued does not follow " (created between 1993 and 1996):

  • The exchange child
  • Fidan
  • The Vikings
  • Where happiness falls

Travel / culture documentation

"The Great Streets of the World" (film travel features of 45 minutes each - made between 1990 and 1993)

  • To the red center - Australia
  • The desert is paradise - Baja California (Mexico)
  • The island of silent stones - Ireland
  • The Loire - France
  • Another reality - Scotland
  • Mille Miglia - Italy
  • Thuringia
  • Denmark
  • Camino Santiago (Northern Spain)

literature

  • Herbert Eisenschenk: Experiment Auroville: Live at your own risk. Grubbe Media, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-942194-76-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Home. Retrieved June 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ On the person. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  3. ^ KOBV portal. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Austria Journal - News from Austria. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  5. ^ Family Trapp: Film rights sold for a ridiculous $ 9,000 . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on May 30, 2018]).
  6. ^ KOBV portal. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  7. ^ KOBV portal. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ www.pointer.de, Hamburg, Germany: "Wolfgang who?" - pointer.de . In: pointer.de . ( pointer.de [accessed May 30, 2018]).
  9. ^ KOBV portal. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Pianist and more - Markus Hinterhäuser - Documentation | Try Fidelio now for free! Accessed May 30, 2018 (German).
  11. ↑ Have you heard Haydn today? Accessed May 31, 2018 .
  12. ^ "Matinee" on July 30th: "The audience - The power in the parquet" and part two "Epochs of music history - The Viennese classic" . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed on May 30, 2018]).
  13. ^ Vienna Film Fund - Herbert Eisenschenk. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  14. ^ KOBV portal. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Also on the 150s: It's always Schnitzler year on stage . In: vienna.at . ( vienna.at [accessed on May 31, 2018]).
  16. ^ KOBV portal. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Gustav Klimt - The Mysterious: Presentation of the ORF documentary by Herbert Eisenschenk in the Leopold Museum . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed on May 31, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Gustav Klimt - The Mysterious: Presentation of the ORF documentary by Herbert Eisenschenk in the Leopold Museum | Messages | Press | Leopold Museum. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
  19. ^ KOBV portal. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  20. ^ SPIEGEL TV GmbH: Utopia City Auroville | mirror TV. Accessed May 30, 2018 (German).
  21. ^ KOBV portal. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  22. ^ KOBV portal. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Appio Digital sro: Herbert Eisenschenk | DOKweb. Retrieved May 31, 2018 .
  24. ↑ The KlangWerkstatt in the media | Deutz sound workshop. Accessed May 31, 2018 .
  25. ↑ 1918/2018: Three new ORF productions on "Wiener Moderne" . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on May 31, 2018]).
  26. ^ Egon Schiele | metafilm . In: metafilm . August 20, 2017 ( metafilm.at [accessed May 31, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Eisenschenk, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian documentary filmmaker and author
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna