Michael Glawogger

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Michael Glawogger at the premiere of Slumming in Linz, 2006

Michael Glawogger (born December 3, 1959 in Graz , † April 22, 2014 in Monrovia , Liberia ) was an Austrian film director , screenwriter and cameraman .

Live and act

Glawogger graduated from the Academic Gymnasium in Graz with the final examination in 1978. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1981 to 1982 and then studied from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy . Michael Glawogger lived in Vienna and Pitten .

Similar to Ulrich Seidl , with whom he worked several times, he often used the form of the (semi) documentary feature film. His two internationally most successful works, Megacities (1998), the first Austrian film to be shown in the Sundance Film Festival program, and Workingman's Death (2005), are set across almost every continent and address, among other things, social aspects of globalization .

The drama Slumming had its world premiere in February 2006 at the Berlin International Film Festival . The comedy Contact High , whose main characters have already been seen in nudibranchs , premiered in March 2009 at the Diagonale in Graz. With Whores' Glory , another Glawogger documentary was released in 2011. In this film he deals with the subject of prostitution, which he had already touched on in some of his previous documentaries. Together, Megacities , Workingman's Death and Whores' Glory form a film trilogy about the state of the world at the turn of the 20th to the 21st century.

At the end of 2013 he set off with Attila Boa (camera) and Manuel Siebert (sound) on a “documentary experiment” planned for around a year. Without a ready-made concept, he filmed this "film without a name" during a trip that began in Croatia in December 2013 . Further stations were Bosnia-Herzegovina , Albania , Italy , Morocco and the Western Sahara , Mauritania , Senegal , Mali , Guinea , Sierra Leone and most recently Liberia . He reported on his trip in the “Glawogger diaries”, which appeared every week in the daily newspaper Der Standard , as well as in a blog for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Glawogger died of malaria in April 2014 while filming in Liberia . The film editor Monika Willi took on Glawogger's material and made the film Untitled from it, which premiered in February 2017 in the Panorama section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival .

Eva Menasse added the dedication In memory of Michael Glawogger 1959-2014 to her book Animals for Advanced (Cologne 2017) .

Filmography

Michael Glawogger ( Austrian Film Award 2012 )

Awards

literature

  • Michael Glawogger: 69 hotel rooms . The Other Library , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8477-0363-1 .
  • Henry Keazor: Tradition and Contrast: Industrial Cities and Industrial Work in the Documentaries of Michael Glawogger: From 'Megacities' (1998) to 'Working Man's Death' (2005) . In: Clemens Zimmermann (Ed.): Industrial Cities. History and Future . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39914-0 , pp. 345–361.
  • Michael Glawogger , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 13/2014 from March 25, 2014, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Michael Glawogger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Glawogger death: originally typhoid diagnosis , orf.at, April 24, 2014
  2. ↑ a b ORF : Sick while filming in Africa , April 23, 2014 (accessed on April 23, 2014).
  3. ↑ Contact High Diagonale 2009
  4. ↑ Der Standard : Michael Glawogger in Nova Gradiška: The Future , December 12, 2013
  5. ↑ Der Standard : Michael Glawogger Diaries , December 2013 to April 2014
  6. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Michael Glawogger's documentary blog , December 2013 to April 2014
  7. ^ Kurier : Filmmaker Michael Glawogger is dead , April 23, 2014 (accessed April 23, 2014).
  8. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2016 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. at berlinale.de, December 20, 2016 (accessed December 25, 2016). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinale.de
  9. ↑ Austrian Film Prize 2018: Prize Winner . Accessed January 31, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Glawogger, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director, screenwriter and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2014
Place of death Monrovia , Liberia