Hilde Berger (actress)
Hilde Berger (born October 18, 1946 in Scharnstein , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian writer , screenwriter and actress .
Life
Hilde Berger studied German and theater studies at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna. On January 13, 1968, together with her fellow students Götz Fritsch and Dieter Haspel , she opened the Viennese avant-garde stage " Cafétheater hinterm Graben" in Café Einfalt, Goldschmiedgasse , 1010 Vienna, (later renamed: Ensemble Theater Wien ) and experimented with new theater styles there the separation between stage and auditorium. 1970 to 1973 she led the theater group "torso" together with Reiner Finke, which specialized in world premieres by Austrian authors (such as Heinz Rudolf Unger ). After an extended period of study in Polish "Teatr Laboratorium Wrocław" (Director: Jerzy Grotowski ) she founded together with the directors Zbigniew Cynkutis and Herbert Adamec the Theaterlabor A.mo.K. in the Dramatic Center in Vienna. Until 1982 she worked there as an actress and workshop leader on the research of direct representational techniques in the sense of "poor theater".
In 1978 the first son Max Berner was born. 1982 saw the birth of the second son Julian Berner and a marriage with the film and theater director Dieter Berner .
The change in the family situation leads to the turning away from the theater and turning to a new area of interest, film, first as an actress in several cinema and TV films, then as a screenwriter. In 1989, together with the writers Thomas Pluch and Gustav Ernst , Hilde Berger founded the “ Screenplay Forum Vienna ”, the first Austrian screenwriting association. As a board member and chairwoman, she was committed to the training and further education and the legal and social betterment of scriptwriters. For several years she was a jury member in various film funding institutions and, together with Gustav Ernst and Sabine Perthold, headed the "Vienna Screenplay Academy".
In addition to several scripts for Austrian and German feature films, her first novel "Ob es Hass ist Such Liebe" about Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler-Werfel was published in 1999 . In 2009 "Tod und Mädchen" followed, a novel about Egon Schiele from the point of view of his female models. The novel was filmed under the title Egon Schiele: Death and Girls in 2016 as an Austrian-Luxembourgish production and achieved international success.
Since 2001 Hilde Berger has been teaching at the University of Vienna at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, and from 2004 to 2009 also in Potsdam at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" at the Babelsberg Studio .
Hilde Berger lives in Retz / N.Ö. and Berlin .
Works
Scripts
- 1980: Das Menschenkindl (Christmas fairy tale, co-author and director: Dieter Berner , with Wolfgang Puschnigg ) 30 min., ORF / ZDF / SRG
- 1980: Book edition (series: prompter box) Sessler Verlag Vienna 1980
- 1981: The right man (socially critical comedy, director: Dieter Berner, with Wolfram Berger ) 90 min., ORF / ZDF
- 1982: Jakob (literary film adaptation) 30 min. WDR
- 1984/1985: Lenz or freedom (historical literary adaptation, co-author and director: Dieter Berner, with Peter Simonischek , Helmut Berger , Annette Uhlen , Brigitte Karner ) 4 × 90 min., SWF
- 1993: Pilot for At Your Own Risk (crime series, co-author and director: Dieter Berner, with Thekla Carola Wied ) 90 min./Ziegler-Film/ ARD
- 1994: Joint Venture (comedy, director: Dieter Berner, with Gregor Bloéb and Jiří Menzel ) 90 min. Cinema (EPO film)
- 2002: August the Happy , (Comedy, Director: Joseph Vilsmaier with Otto Schenk , Fritz Karl and Dana Vávrová ) 90 min. (Lisa film / ORF)
- 2006: Berliner Reigen (adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen , co-author: Heiko Martens, director: Dieter Berner, with Robert Gwisdek , Jana Klinge and Sebastian Stielke ) 90 min. Cinema (HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg / ORF)
- 2007: Engel, Tod und Teufel (short film, director: Dieter Berner, with Klara Manzel ) 20 min. (HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg)
- 2009: Illness of Youth (feature film based on Ferdinand Bruckner's play Illness of Youth , director: Dieter Berner) 90 min. Cinema (HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg)
- 2016: Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (Drama, Bio Pic), movie 110 min., Director: Dieter Berner, with Noah Saavedra , Maresi Riegner , Valerie Pachner , Cornelius Obonya (Novotny-Film Vienna and Amour Fou Film Luxemburg, Co- Prod .: Ulrich Seidl); Romy Awards 2017 : Romy for Best Book Film.
Novels
- Whether it is hate, such love ... Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler. 1999, 2nd edition: Böhlau, 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78078-6 , Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7466-7078-2 .
- Death and maiden. Egon Schiele and the women . Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78378-7 , Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-7466-7093-5 .
- The waanzinnige ran from Alma Mahler and Oskar Kokoschka. Uitgeverij Conserve, The Hague 2012, ISBN 978-90-5429-331-6 .
- Egon Schiele - Death and Maiden . With an afterword by Dieter Berner as well as script pages and film stills from the film of the same name. Hollitzer Verlag , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-99012-456-7
Translations of plays (English-German)
- "Johnny Johnson", musical play by Kurt Weill / Paul Green ; New translation with Dieter Berner for the New Opera Vienna 2002
- "Hartes Herz" drama by Howard Barker , original title: A Hard Heart; German language first translation for theater class ; Kaiser Verlag Vienna, 2003; Radio play version for Deutschland Kulturradio 2007
Film rolls
- 1976/1977 Alpensaga [episode 1,2,3] (Direction: Dieter Berner , with Helmut Qualtinger and Hans Brenner )
- 1978 Lemmings (Director: Michael Haneke , with Paulus Manker , Bernhard Wicki and Elisabeth Orth )
- 1984/1985 Lenz or freedom (directed by Dieter Berner, with Peter Simonischek and Helmut Berger )
- 1988 Die Verlockung (Direction: Dieter Berner, with Dominic Raacke , Helmut Berger and Fritz Karl )
- 1990 Top of Society (Director: Franz Novotny , with Fritz Karl and Vadim Glowna )
- 1994 EXIT II (director: Franz Novotny, with Hanno Pöschl and Helmut Berger)
- 1995 It Was Love After All (Director: Wolfgang Glück , with Therese Affolter )
- 1996 Kommissar Rex (Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel , with Tobias Moretti )
- 2002 Dog and Cat (Director: Dieter Berner, with Nicole Heesters )
- 2003 Trautmann - Life sentence (Director: Thomas Roth , with Wolfgang Böck )
- 2005 Tatort - The Sleeping Beauty (Director: Dieter Berner, with Fritz Karl and Suzanne von Borsody )
- 2016 Egon Schiele: Death and Maiden (Director: Dieter Berner, with Noah Saavedra , Valerie Pachner )
literature
- Annemarie Klinger: Intention and experience in the “Theater of Experience” with special consideration of the theater work of the “Working Group on Motor Communication” (A.mo.K.) and Ruben Fragas at the Dramatic Center Vienna from 1973 to 1983. Dissertation. Vienna 1992. 2 volumes.
- Amok. Turn the theater upside down. In: Carola Dertnig , Stefanie Seibold (Eds.): Let's twist again. Performance in Vienna from 1960 until today. DEA, Gumpoldskirchen / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-901867-16-3 , p. 142.
- Peter v. Becker: The Amok group. In: Theater Today. 17th volume, No. 6, June 1976, p. 22 ff.
Awards
- Austrian Film Award 2017 - nomination for Best Screenplay (together with Dieter Berner) for "Egon Schiele: Death and Girls".
- Romy Awards 2017 - Award in the Best Screenplay category (together with Dieter Berner) for "Egon Schiele: Death and Girls".
Web links
- Literature by and about Hilde Berger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hilde Berger (actress) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website by Hilde Berger
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berger, Hilde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scharnstein , Upper Austria |