Herbert Link

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Herbert Link (born July 29, 1944 in Vienna ; † June 6, 2018 ) was an Austrian filmmaker and media educator .

Life

Herbert Link spent his childhood in the 15th district of Vienna, where he made his first films at the age of 15. At the age of 18 he entered the film business as a cameraman . From 1962 he worked as a camera assistant in an advertising and animated film production, soon he took over the conception and design of non-fictional animated films.

From 1967 Link worked mainly as a freelance cameraman, editor and film designer in the areas of documentary, industrial film and advertising. Between 1969 and 1986 he worked on around 150 educational and school television films and commercials. At that time he became increasingly involved in freely produced film projects and media education. From 1985 he worked as a writer and director, and since 1989 he has mainly produced his own documentary film concepts.

In addition to his film work, Herbert Link was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1989 to 2006 . He has implemented numerous practical film and video projects with students from the institute for artistic teaching, and has led media workshops and teacher training seminars. Link also oversaw a number of media projects in schools. Numerous documentaries have also been made from these student-professional projects.

He was buried at the Ottakringer Friedhof .

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Herbert Link's films are characterized by a very careful and respectful approach to mostly very difficult topics. Link managed to create a very personal atmosphere and to give space and recognition to the experiences, experiences and thoughts of his interview partners in the film. He was supported in many projects by his wife Inge Link, who underlines the atmosphere of the films in the editing and musical design.

Due to personal experience, Herbert Link dealt very intensively in his work with the topics of death, mourning, hospice work and care. The subject of death was also one of the points of connection with the painter Herwig Zens , through whom Link has made numerous films. Between 1982 and 2012, 21 films by, about and with Herwig Zens were made.

Herbert Link is a passionate collector who is aware of the value of seemingly everyday things. With this in mind, he has been documenting his family's Christmas celebrations year after year since 1962 and leaving the videos to the Austrian media library . Over the years, an impressive cultural and historical testimony has emerged.

Filmography (selection)

Films on the subject of "Living with Boundaries"

  • Sudden and Unexpected (1989, 45 minutes)
  • The certain time (1993, 45 minutes)
  • Real Life (1995, 45 minutes)
  • Michaela - a life with and without drugs. A student-professional project (1995, 11 minutes)
  • I still have so much to say (1996, 24 minutes)
  • Between power and powerlessness (1997, 45 minutes)
  • The other side (2000, 22 minutes)
  • Eris quod sum (2001, 15 minutes)
  • Dance of Death (2001, 12 minutes)
  • The Dream of the Butterfly (2005, 60 minutes)
  • The falling leaves give shape to the wind - 20 years of the Mobiles Caritas Hospice (2008, 40 minutes)
  • ... a very slow waltz (2009, 30 minutes)
  • Last pictures with Hildegard (2009, 6 minutes)
  • More than I can - A film about care in secret (2011, 45 minutes + additional film What else to say, 13 minutes)
  • As far as I can - family carers and their path (2014, 50 minutes) follow-up film to "More than I can"
  • Film series "Living with Boundaries" 12 films - 12 encounters - 12 questions (2016, 150 minutes)

Films about visual arts, music and media

  • Can Art - Sculpture - Franz Xaver Ölzant (1993, 17 minutes)
  • Can art - media artists Graf & Zyx (1993, 18 minutes)
  • Art can - graphics - Gunter Damisch (1996, 17 minutes)
  • Schiele, please sit down (1999, 45 minutes)
  • Who dances with death. Herwig Zens paints a dance of death for the Marienkirche in Lübeck (2003, 30 minutes)
  • Song of the spirits over the waters - Herwig Zens - Arnold Schoenberg Choir (2004, 12 minutes)
  • Haimatochare (2007, 17 minutes)
  • Death on Vacation (2007, 15 minutes)
  • Zens - The Erased Diary (2007, 25 minutes)
  • The series of great moments. Erwin Ortner and his vocal power plant (2007, 23 minutes)
  • Zens gathers the time (2009, 12 minutes)
  • King Ubu and his entourage (2010, 21 minutes)
  • Zens - The attempt. A film for Herwig Zens' 70th birthday (2013, 50 minutes)

Films on dialogue between the generations

  • Storytelling café (1998, 12 minutes)
  • Mr. Aldo's harmonica. A student-professional project (1999, 11 minutes)
  • What do you think? A student-professional project (1999, 9 minutes)
  • I'm just there - and done. Meeting with the youth chaplain P. Friedrich Debray (2002, 17 minutes)
  • The theater on the wall. Mr. Podingbauer remembers. A student-professional project (2003, 12 minutes)
  • In the middle lies happiness. The people from the nineer house. A student-professional project (2006, 28 minutes)
  • Speaking of Valerie. Portrait of a Curious One (2007, 25 minutes)
  • At last. How did children, adolescents and adults experience the post-war period? (2005, 55 minutes)
  • Finally talk about it - a war generation begins to talk. (2007, 53 minutes)
  • Finally 1968 (2008, 55 minutes)
  • Aya, Kais & Helena. A student-professional project (2009, 27 minutes)
  • The art of remembering. (2011, 25 minutes)

Publications

  • Life with limits. Texts from and about the films by Herbert Link. With Martin Jäggle , Oliver Bentz, Herwig Zens also with illustrations, Hildegard Teuschl , Nikolaus Gerdes, Michaela Wilhelmer, Walfried Hauser, Manfred Dvorak, Susanne Krucsay, Ludmilla Link, Leopold Link. Wagner Verlag, Linz Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902330-68-0 .

Awards

  • 1993 TV award of the Austrian national education for "The certain time"
  • 1998 State Prize for Journalism in the Interest of Families for "Narrative Café"
  • 2011 Care and support award from Volkshilfe Austria: Honorary award for "More than I can"
  • 2011 Health Prize of the City of Vienna: Recognition in the field of media / public relations for "More than I can"
  • 2013 Journalist Prize from the Aid Organization Austria: Award in the TV category for "More than I can"
  • 2013 Heinrich Treichl Prize (19th Humanity Prize of the Red Cross)
  • 2014 Volkshilfe nursing and care award: Acknowledgment award for special commitment in nursing and care

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ^ Grave site Herbert Link , Vienna, Ottakringer Friedhof, Group MK, Row 5, No. 84.
personal data
SURNAME Link, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker and media educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2018