Kurt Langbein

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Kurt Langbein (born October 29, 1953 in Budapest ) is an Austrian filmmaker, science journalist and film producer in Vienna.

Life

Kurt Langbein was born in 1953 as the son of Aloisia and Hermann Langbein , the historian and Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism . He grew up in Vienna .

After studying sociology in Vienna from 1973 to 1977, he began his journalistic career in 1978 in Claus Gatterer's critical TV magazine "teleobjektiv". Films about abuses in psychiatry , in children's homes and prisons , reports on disadvantaged minorities and documentation on experiments with drugs that have not yet been approved in Austrian clinics caused a sensation and discussion. Gatterer's magazine was controversial and was to be discontinued soon after Gerd Bacher's re-election as ORF general manager in 1978. But numerous protests by viewers and the media ensured the continuation until 1983. After the discontinuation of the TV magazine and the death of Claus Gatterer in 1984, Langbein worked in "Inlandsreport", designed TV documentaries and in 1986 developed the TV format "concerns" he directed until 1989. In 1989 Langbein switched to the news magazine “ profil ” and was in charge of the “Inland” department (science and society).

In 1992 Langbein started his own business and together with Christian Skalnik founded the multimedia agency Langbein & Partner Media, which he has been managing alone since Skalnik left. In 2001 Langbein founded the health portal "surfMED" together with the Internet service provider Netway, which he continues to run independently as the publisher after Netway has been sold to UTA. In 2009 "careon", a German manufacturer of electronic patient files, took over the majority of surfMED.

Kurt Langbein is married to Brigitte Ortner and has a son, the actor Daniel Langbein .

Awards

  • 1980: Karl Renner Promotion Prize for Journalism
  • 1981 and 1983: TV awards of the Austrian National Education for the TV documentaries "Irre Welten - Psychiatrie 1981" and "Archipel Mauthausen"
  • 2000: Medikinale International Munich: First prize "summa cum laude" for the TV documentary "Zecken - Vampire hautnah"
  • 2001: Main prize at the 39th International Film Festival on Science, Technology and Art Techfilm, Prague for the TV documentary "Ticks - Vampires up close"
  • 2001: E-Business Manager Award in the start-up company category for founding "surfmed"
  • 2001: Prix MultiMediaAustria in the "Internet Information and Publication" category for the foundation of "surfmed"
  • 2003: “Creativ Industries: Multimedia 2003” award from the City of Vienna for the project “Disease Management for Diabetics” submitted by surfMED
  • 2004: International Health Film Festival Liège (Belgium): SPECIAL PRIZE "LA MEUSE" for the TV documentary "Zecken - Vampire hautnah"
  • 2011: Prälat-Leopold-Ungar-Journalist's Award for “outstanding journalistic achievement” for the “Kreuz & Quer” TV documentary “From the sense of giving - the evolution of charity” (together with Gottfried Derka).
  • 2013: Romy Romy Awards 2013 as best TV documentary for " Miracle Healing "
  • 2013: Axel Corti Prize for outstanding performance in radio and television
  • 2016: Romy as a producer in the Best Documentary Cinema category for " Hubert von Goisern - Brenna has done it for a long time "
  • 2018: Dr. Karl Renner journalism award for life's work: Langbein "set milestones for Austrian journalism as a journalist, filmmaker and TV producer," the jury justified the award.

Publications

  • Healthy Businesses - The Practices of the Pharmaceutical Industry, co-author 1981
  • Bitter pills . Co-author 1983, one of the most successful non-fiction books in the German-speaking area with more than 2.5 million copies sold. ( Number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from October 3, 1983 to January 8, 1984 and from January 16 to September 16, 1984 )
  • Health course book, co-author 1986
  • with Andrea Ernst, Franz Köppl, Krista Federspiel : Welfare State Austria. Closed if necessary. Trend Profile Book, Orac, Vienna 1987.
  • Reports from the future - the soft industrial society, a dream comes true, 1991, co-author
  • Course book for children, co-author 1993
  • with Manfred Mühlberger, Christian Skalnik: Course book quality of life. Protect the environment, save money and live comfortably. Decision-making aids for everyday life. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02459-0 .
  • with Christian Skalnik: Viagra. New potency for men - more lust for women? The new sexual enhancer: application - risks - alternatives - sources of supply. Drawings by Thomas Klefisch, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-462-02780-8 .
  • with Christian Skalnik: Finally slim with Xenical? New ways to the desired weight. Everything about Xenical, Reductil & Co. Application - Risks - Alternatives. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-462-02781-6 .
  • with Rike Fochler: Simply brilliant. The seven kinds of intelligence. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999, ISBN 3-404-60469-5 .
  • with Christian Skalnik: Extending life - at what price? Europa Verlag 1994, Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2000, ISBN 3-404-60479-2 .
  • with Christian Skalnik, Elisabeth Tschachler-Roth: Wh (h) re beauty. Surgical and dermatological beauty treatments. Methods, costs, risks. Mosaik, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-576-11509-9 .
  • with Christian Skalnik , Inge Smolek, Bert Ehgartner , Michaela Streimelweger, Doris Tschabitscher: Bioterror. The most dangerous weapons in the world. Who owns them, what they do, how you can protect yourself. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-421-05639-0 .
  • with Bert Ehgartner : The medical cartel. The seven deadly sins of the health industry . Piper, Munich 2002, 2003, ISBN 3-492-23872-6 .
  • with Ellis Huber : The health revolution. Radical ways out of the crisis - what patients need to know. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-351-02572-6 .
  • Gesundheit Aktiv, co-author 2005
  • with Peter Bardehle : discoverer of wellness. Health arts in ancient China, India, and Rome. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-8000-7315-3 .
  • Classified medicine. How it makes us sick, who benefits from it and how you survive the system. Ecowin, Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-902404-73-2 .
  • Radishes from above - about living with cancer . Ecowin Verlag , Salzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7110-0024-8
  • White Paper Healing: When Modern Medicine Can't Do Anything More . Ecowin Verlag , Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7110-0042-2
  • Land grabbing - the global hunt for farmland. Ecowin Verlag Salzburg 2015, ISBN 3711000738

Movies

  • 1987: the end of the welfare state? (Director), 3 X 45 MINUTES, broadcaster: ORF
  • 1994: The end of flight safety. (Director and producer), 61 minutes, broadcaster: RTL
  • 1995: Between life and death - everyday life in the intensive care unit. (Co-director with Christian Skalnik and producer), 47 minutes, channels: RTL, ORF
    • Child prodigies. (Director and producer), 45 minutes, broadcasters: ORF, WDR, NDR
  • 1996: The Chernobyl Bells. (Director and producer), 52 minutes, international co-production: RTL, TV Ucraine, TV Belorussia, TV Poland, TV Asai (Japan), Teleimages, ORF
    • Life through other life. (Director and producer), 47 minutes, ORF 1996
  • 1997: Cancer diagnosis. (Director and producer), 50 minutes, ORF
    • The future of work. (Director and producer), 90 minutes, ORF
  • 1998–2000: body and soul. (Producer), 10 × 45 minutes, ORF
  • 1999: Medizin 2000. (director and producer), 52 minutes, RTL
  • 2000: Police station Berlin Mitte (producer and co-director with Stephan Guntli and Bert Ehgartner ), 4 × 40 minutes, RTL
  • 2000–2004: Nature strikes back. (Producer), 5 × 52 minutes, RTL, National Geographic , PBS
  • 2000: Ticks - the real vampires. (Co-directed with Bert Ehgartner , producer), 52 minutes, Discovery Channel, ARTE, ORF
  • 2002: Hermann Maier - the comeback. (Producer), 52 min, DVD, Austrian Ski Association
  • 2003–2005: Knowledge check. (Producer), 350 × 2 minutes, ORF
  • 2003: The Mostar Bridge. (Co-producer with Vidicom, Hamburg), 52 minutes, ARTE, National Geographic, Avro, ORF
  • 2004: Freak Waves. (Director and producer), 52 minutes, WDR ARTE, PBS
  • 2005: got down to the dog. (Producer), 52 minutes, ZDF ARTE
    • Zeit: Witnesses - Victims of the Nazi regime in conversation with students. (Producer), DVD for school lessons
  • 2005–2006: The normal behavior of Austrians. (Co-director with Bert Ehgartner , producer), 8 × 43 minutes ORF
  • 2007: Discoverer of the wellness - health arts in ancient China, India and Rome. (Producer and director) 3x52 and 3x43 minutes, HDCAM 16: 9, for WDR / ARTE, MDR, ORF, SBS Australia, URS Sweden
    • Know how - all you need to know about healthy living. (Producer), 70x4 minutes for ORF summer time
    • Claus Gatterer - in case of doubt on the side of the weak. 45 minutes BR alpha and RAI (director and producer)
  • 2008: Back to Africa. Feature documentary by Othmar Schmiderer (producer, co-producer Peter Rommel), 90 minutes 35mm, opening film at Diagonale
    • The Billion Makers - Increasing Money Between Greed and Ethics. (Director and producer), 52 minutes 16: 9, ORF Kreuz & Quer
    • The brain and me. (Director and producer), 30 minutes, ORF Kreuz & Quer
    • Patient healthcare. (Director and producer), 45 minutes, ORF Report Special
    • Outside help. (Director and producer), 45 minutes, ORF topic special
  • 2009: Austria - a paradise for the rich. 30 minutes, ORF Kreuz & Quer (director and producer)
    • Birth strike 35 minutes, ORF Kreuz & Quer (director and producer)
    • Well received - Culinary excursions 6x25 minutes, Servus TV (director and producer)
    • Fair trade or greed - the path to a just global economy 52 minutes, ORF Kreuz & Quer (director and producer)
  • 2010: Austria - a paradise for the rich? 37 minutes, ORF Kreuz & Quer (director and producer)
    • Cotton - the white gold 30 minutes, WDR (director and producer)
  • 2011: News from the Animal Farm 37 minutes, ORF Kreuz & Quer (director and producer)
    • On the sense of giving - the evolution of charity 52 minutes, ORF Kreuz & Quer (director and producer)
  • 2012: Grenzfalls - told by Robert Menasse 52/94 minutes, coproduction with ServusTV
    • Miracle healing 60/52 minutes, coproduction with ORF, WDR
    • The aluminum files 52 minutes / 90 minutes, ZDF / ARTE, ORF and SRF, Menschen & Mächte , (producer)
    • How rich are the rich? (with Florian Kröppel) 35 minutes ORF
  • 2013: How violence arises 52 minutes ORF and educational media of the BMuKK
  • 2014: Boundless - where the curtain fell (with Judith E. Innerhofer) 52 minutes ORF and educational media of the BMuKK
    • Everything that is fair (with Judith E. Innerhofer) 52 minutes ORF and educational media of the BMuKK
  • 2015: Hubert von Goisern - Brenna tuat's already long (producer), 90 minutes, documentary film, director: Marcus Rosenmüller
    • Landraub (director and producer), 95 minutes, cinema documentary
    • Aging without load (with Judith E. Innerhofer) 52 minutes ORF and educational media of the BMU
  • 2016: Still healthy ; Eat what you are; What touches us; Doctor of Nature - healing without chemistry; Can Faith Heal? Bitter harvest; (6x47 minutes ServusTV)
    • How real is reality (director and producer), 54 minutes ORF
  • 2017: Elvis and the girl from Vienna , 60 minutes ORF
    • The last year - die as part of life (director and producer), 52 minutes ORF
  • 2018: To have or to be , (director and producer), 52 minutes ORF
    • Time for utopias (director and producer), documentary film, 95 minutes
  • 2020: Eat differently otherwise there is a risk of dying quietly (director and producer), ORF, Arte

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 16th Axel Corti Prize goes to science journalist Kurt Langbein. In: DerStandard.at. April 30, 2013, accessed May 1, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Nominations for the “Dr. Karl Renner Journalism Prize 2018 " . OTS announcement of October 1, 2018, accessed October 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ Evolution of Charity Video (50 min)
  4. ↑ Trailer and video (94 min)
  5. ↑ Trailer and video (94 min)
  6. ↑ landraub.com
  7. ↑ Badische-zeitung.de , October 6, 2015, Gabriele Schoder: Der Ausverkauf der Erde
  8. ^ Langbein & Partner: Film page "Time for Utopias". In: Documentary. Langbein & Partner, February 12, 2018, accessed on March 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Langbein, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker, science journalist and TV producer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest