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Kitty Kino (actually Kitty Judit Gschöpf ; born June 10, 1948 in Vienna ) is a director , screenwriter , author and photographer .

Life

Kitty Gschöpf, born in Döbling as a bourgeois daughter, began to be interested in physics / atomic physics at the age of 14 and later wanted to study it too, so that she - as one of 10 girls among 1,500 boys - visited the Technological Trade Museum (TGM) in Vienna. She was later to take over her grandfather's factory in the country, but fell out with him, so that after two years she went back to Vienna. In 1967 she graduated from the electrical engineering department with good success and then worked for two years as an electrical engineer.

In 1969, Kitty Gschöpf had her first film role in Grimm's fairy tales of lustful couples , in which she still played under her real name. During the 1960s and 1970s, “Vienna [...] was gray and very conservative at the time. Casual places for young people could be counted on one hand ”. One of them, and the best known at the time, was the "Wumm-Wumm", where Kitty Gschöpf met the journalist and screenwriter Peter Hajek . He told her about a film project by the renowned director and producer Rolf Thiele, who planned to shoot so-called erotic comedies "as it should be for the late sixties and early seventies". Um in his "sex film" Come to Vienna, I'll show you something! (1970) Kitty had to ask her mother for permission because she was not yet of legal age, why she said succinctly: “Well, ONE scandal has never harmed anyone.” She now also used her stage name Kitty Kino for this production to: On the one hand, because "people always had problems [...] with spelling" their name, and "that has always got on my nerves." On the other hand, "I [then] found that I needed a stage name, a sex film starlet called Gschöpf, that's just fine." Long discussions about philosophy and filmmaking with Rolf Thiele then aroused her love for the medium of film , but for working behind the camera, so that she wanted to go to the film academy to study:

“And Kitty took the unconventional path to get there. Via the aforementioned boom-boom, she got to the legendary regulars' table of Ernst Haeussermann , then director of the theater in der Josefstadt and head of the film academy in Bauer-Grünwald. There the slender, yet overpowering figure with a pipe and his disciples sat enthroned, next to a table with a black telephone. 'So, so, you want to study film. Very good idea. Come to my office tomorrow. ' Kitty did as she was told. He said, 'So you really want this? Well well. But how do we do it? We are in the middle of the semester. ' And Kitty said: 'Maybe as a guest student?' / Said and done. Six months later, the regular entrance examination followed. "

- Sabina Naber : Laudation 2009

In 1970 she began to study at the film academy ( philosophy as art, short film in black and white, 1971/72) and graduated with a diploma in directing (1975) and editing (1976 with the film Rübezahl ). From 1976 to 1980 (or 1977 to 1981) she worked as a freelancer for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). According to her own statements, she fell victim to a "classic intrigue [...]", which was the point for her to turn to the cinema.

Her feature films Karambolage (1982) "about a woman who asserts herself in the male domain of billiards" (Anna Gadzinski, 2015), were at the Berlinale 1983 and Die Nachtmeerfahrt (1985), as "anticipation of the gender debate about a model that A beard grows at night ”(Anna Gadzinski, 2015), premiered at the 1986 Berlinale . These two “women’s films” subsequently reached festivals in Europe, the USA and Japan beyond the German-language arthouse cinemas .

Carambolage, with production costs of 9 million schillings or 1.3 million DM , had "a lot of autobiographical things from me built into it, according to Kitty Kino, but of course they are rather heavily condensed and slightly changed":

“By the way, it came from my time with playing billiards. Back in my youth, women were actually not allowed to play billiards in the coffee houses. That was a strange situation. I filmed and planed at school, did calculations and drew the construction plans for entire power plants - and afterwards during the lunch break I wasn't allowed to play pool in the coffee house because I really wanted to learn. "

- Kitty Kino : Interview in tip magazine , 1983

From 1987 Kitty Kino was also active in the independent theater scene in Vienna, including the Theater im Künstlerhaus and the Theater Brett . In 1992/1993 she was the first woman to direct and script two episodes of the television crime series Eurocops .

Kitty Kinos TV film Aktion C + M + B, a co-production of ORF and SF DRS and produced by Thalia-Film, had its first broadcast on January 4, 2000 on ORF and has since been broadcast regularly around the Three Kings on January 6 sent again. The film, which is based on the carol-singing campaign of the relief organization of the Catholic youth group, “tells in a humorous and satirical way the ingenuity of a young family who tries to solve their financial problems in a very unusual way.” But although the film is “extremely socially critical and is at the same time beyond black and white painting "," this differentiation [...] did not prevent the Catholic Church from making a recommendation for a ban on 'Action C + M + B'. Others could follow this bad example, was the official reason. But it was more likely the critical dialogues that opened up the official church. "

Filmography

as an actress:

Direction / Script / Editing / Production:

  • 1975: Wenn ma tot san, san ma tot, director / script
  • 1978: Rübezahl, director / script (as Kitty Gschöpf)
  • 1983: Karambolage, director / script
  • 1985: Die Nachtmeerfahrt, director / script
  • 1989: True love, director / script
  • 1992–1993: Eurocops (TV series), 2 episodes directed, 1 episode screenplay
  • 1996: The Confession, TV, Director
  • 1999: Aktion C + M + B (The Three Sly Men, Collecte de l'épiphanie), director / script
  • 2006: Keyserling - Wissen & Sinn (personality portrait, nanook-film / 3sat ), concept / design / editing

Award

Publications

  • Lara and the insiders. Youth novel. G&G Kinderbuchverlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7074-1065-5 .
  • KITTY KINO VIENNA. Photo book (German / English). Edition Lammerhuber, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-901753-77-0 .
  • Günter Pscheider: What actually became of ...? The Austrian Film - November 2019, Interview. In: ray Filmmagazin: Österreichische Filmkarrieren, 10/2019 ( full text online ).
  • The smallest touch. Novel. Edition Keiper, Graz 2019, ISBN 978-3-903144-89-7 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sabina Naber, Laudatio 2009, p. 2.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Hans-Ulrich Pönack : TIP interview with KITTY KINO on the occasion of the theatrical release of her film “Karambolage” on 11/11/1983. ( Republication online: Kitty Kino. In: Pönis Filmclub, February 15, 2017, accessed on January 7, 2020)
  3. ↑ a b c d Kitty Kino and Beatrix Neundlinger "gilded". In: APA-OTS - dispatch of the PID- town hall correspondence , April 22, 2009, accessed on January 7, 2020.
  4. ↑ Sabina Naber, Laudatio 2009, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Deviating from Sabina Naber, Laudatio 2009, p. 3, she finished her studies together with Reinhard Schwabenitzky in 1977.
  6. ↑ a b Kitty Kino… In: Christian Reichhold, 2018. Darin u. a .: “A film about a woman […] / Sounds a bit like the autobiographical story of a female director in male-dominated Austrian films, and maybe it is: The then 35-year-old Viennese Kitty Judit Gschöpf gave herself the stage name »Kino«, the leading actress in her feature film Karambolage , but her real middle name. / The art history student Judit ( Marie Colbin ) ... "
  7. ↑ Foolishly beautiful: "Karambolage" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1983, pp. 234 ( online ). Quote: “… With an old-fashioned framework, crudely exaggerated supporting roles and delightful ambiguities - 'queue' means first and foremost 'tail' - Kitty Kino staged her first feature film. In the desolation of German-speaking cinema, 'Karambolage' has become a foolishly beautiful game. "
  8. ↑ Panorama: carom / carom. Film data sheet in: Annual archive of the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, 1983; accessed on 7 January 2020.
  9. ↑ Panorama: The night sea voyage. Film data sheet in: Annual archive of the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, 1986; accessed on 7 January 2020.
  10. ↑ Action C + M + B. In: Kitty Kino website, undated, accessed on January 7, 2020: “The idea for 'Aktion C + M + B' came to me very spontaneously. I saw carolers and asked myself, who are they collecting for? And I immediately had to think of the financial needs of the single mothers in my circle of friends. That would be something to raise money! Due to the illegality of such an action and the fear that our Viennese heart would currently need new gold plating in some places, the feeling soon crept in: could this also work out? [...] The wonderful thing then was that the ORF was immediately enthusiastic about the idea and it didn't take much more than a year to complete the film. "
  11. ↑ Sabina Naber, Laudation 2009, p. 4.
  12. ↑ a b c Kitty Kino in the Internet Movie Database (English) version January 7, 2020.
  13. ↑ Background information on Keyserling - Knowledge & Sense. In: Kitty Kino website, undated, accessed on 7 January 2020: “A long-lost 30-minute black and white film by Kitty Kino from 72 about the philosopher Arnold Keyserling [1922–2005] has been rediscovered. Prof. Keyserling and his wife Willy [Keyserling, 1921–2010], both over 80 years old at this point in time, were asked again about their life and work after 30 years. ... "
  14. ↑ Ditta Rudle: Kitty Kino photographs Vienna at night. Book review. In: tanz.at, November 16, 2014, accessed on January 7, 2020.
  15. ↑ Photo volume: Vienna views between photography and painting. "A matter of opinion" section. In: Der Standard , November 17, 2014, accessed on January 7, 2020: “Film director and photographer Kitty Kino portrays her Vienna on nightly forays in a completely unusual way with an old Nokia 6131 as a camera. It creates very special accents in the border area between photography and painting ”.
  16. ^ Gregor Auenhammer: Cartography of the momentary being. Kitty Kino's new philosophical novel can be read as a warning, as an ironic confrontation of a society devoid of values ​​that is only geared towards bread and games. Review in the section "The current book". In: Der Standard , December 16, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Cinema, kitty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gschöpf, Kitty Judit (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director, screenwriter, author and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna