Ludwig Wüst

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Ludwig Wüst, 2011

Ludwig Wüst (* 1965 in Bavaria ) is an Austrian director , screenwriter and film producer .

Live and act

Wüst studied acting and singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . He worked as a theater director in Frankfurt, Berlin, at the Leipzig Opera and in Vienna (including the Wiener Festwochen and Arthur Schnitzler's dream novel in the Hotel Orient ).

During his time at the theater, he also wrote plays himself, such as Erika Mann - I was a very burned child for the Wiener Festwochen, Ägyptische Finsternis , based on a text by Ingeborg Bachmann , which Wüst later turned into a film, or At that time , the story of a woman who is commissioned to give birth to the Savior and decides to abort the child. The planned premiere on December 24, 1996 led to a scandal and a temporary ban on performance. The following day, after negotiations with the church, politics and the organizer, the piece was premiered.

In 1998 Ludwig Wüst took part as an actor in the world premiere of Hermann Nitsch's 6-Day Game in Prinzendorf Castle , Lower Austria.

Wüst later turned to film. His feature film debut Koma took place in 2009 and received numerous good reviews. At the same time as the official theatrical release in Austria, it was released across Europe as video-on-demand on the Internet. The cinematic language of Wüst was compared to Michael Haneke , Ulrich Seidl or the Dardenne brothers because of its realism and uncompromising attitude .

Wüst shot the medium-length feature film Tape End (2011) in a single shot, 60 minutes without editing, whereby he was not present during the shoot and left the actors alone with his instructions.

Wüst published his short film Pasolinnicode02112011 on November 2, 2011, the anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's death, on his own website. This was followed by the start at film festivals and the presentation as a video installation in the Kunsthalle Wien .

The film My Father's House was presented for the first time in 2013 at the 21er Haus , the museum of 21st century art in Vienna, and it celebrated its international premiere at the Karlovy Vary film festival . On the one hand the film is an independent work, on the other hand it is the pilot film for the Heimatfilm trilogy. The second film in the trilogy, Farewell , was presented after its world premiere in Karlovy Vary in 2014 together with My Father's House at the Austrian Film Museum . The finale of the trilogy, Heimatfilm , premiered on the Diagonale in Graz in 2016 and was also presented at the Filmmuseum. Heimatfilm is an episode film that uses different cinematic media to tell about different life plans, generations and the search for identity.

Wüst's Aufbruch was premiered at the Berlinale in the Forum in 2018 .

Filmography

Feature film (script, director and producer):

  • 2009: coma
  • 2013: my father's house
  • 2014: Farewell
  • 2015: (untitled)
  • 2016: Heimatfilm
  • 2018: departure

Short films and medium-length films (script, director and producer):

  • 2002: Egyptian eclipse
  • 2005: close-up
  • 2006: two women
  • 2011: Tape End
  • 2012: Pasolinicode02112011

Documentation (director and producer):

  • 2007: Bon Voyage

Awards

  • 2009 Tamil Nadu International Film Festival: "Best Film" for Koma

Factory shows

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with the daily newspaper Die Presse (accessed on May 28, 2012)
  2. ↑ Stefan Grissemann: Everyday Abyss. Profile , June 22, 2009
  3. ↑ Interview with the Austrian Film Commission ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 10, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.afc.at
  4. ↑ Report on the exhibition Der Standard , March 25, 2012 (accessed on May 28, 2012)
  5. ↑ Ludwig Wüst's feature film experiments Der Standard , April 3, 2013 (accessed May 29, 2013)
  6. ↑ Two interviews with Ludwig Wüst Movienerd.de , March 2013 (accessed on May 29, 2013)
  7. ↑ Dominik Kamalzadeh, Michael Pekler: Disappeared, but not lost Der Standard , March 11, 2016 (accessed on January 2, 2017)
  8. ↑ Press Department Berlinale: Forum 2018: In the Realm of Perfection - and elsewhere, January 18, 2018 ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 22, 2018) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinale.de
  9. ↑ The particles in the overall complex . taz , January 31, 2019. Accessed February 14, 2019
  10. ↑ Diagonale 2019 opens with "The floor under your feet" . Die Presse , January 31, 2019. Accessed February 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Wüst, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bavaria