Nikolaus Leytner

Nikolaus Leytner (born October 26, 1957 in Graz ) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Nikolaus Leytner was born in Graz on October 26, 1957. From 1977 to 1984 he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , film and television department, directing with Alfons Stummer and Axel Corti and screenwriting with Harald Zusanek . Since 1984 he has been working as a freelance writer and director in Vienna. In 1989 he co-founded the Austrian film production company Allegro Film . In 2000 he staged Die Nervensäge at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.

In 2009 Nikolaus Leytner founded the Academy of Austrian Films together with other Austrian filmmakers .

Filmography

Direction and script

• 1980: The Angels So Far (short film / cinema)
• 1982: With my hands, with my head (documentary / cinema)
• 1984: Centrifugal Force (short film / cinema)
• 1985: Paradise Ges.mbH (cinema)
• 1990: Shadows in the Spotlight (Documentary / Cinema)
• 1993: the beginning of something (television)
• 1994: Black Days (TV)
• 1996: dodger (cinema)
• 1997: Searching for traces (television)
• 1998: Three gentlemen (cinema)
• 2000: The Shot (TV)
• 2003: Stronger Than Death (TV)
• 2005: The Decision (TV)
• 2008: Half a Life (TV)
• 2010: Welcome to Vienna (television)
• 2013: The Extinction (TV)
• 2015: At the end of summer (TV)
• 2016: The Silence After (TV)
• 2018: Country thriller - The dead man in the lake
• 2018: The Tobacconist (Cinema)
• 2019: South Pole

Direction only

• 2002: The bull from Tölz: final whistle (television)
• 2003: Der Bulle von Tölz: Painting with Vincent (TV)
• 2006: The Jurors (TV)
• 2008: The Old Lady's Visit (TV)
• 2009: The Fall of the Lemming (cinema)
• 2010: Tatort - Operation Job (TV)
• 2012: The long wave behind the Kiel (television)
• 2013: Back to Life (TV)
• 2013: Henriette again (TV)
• 2015: Country thriller - The dead man by the pond
• 2016: The children of Villa Emma (TV)
• 2019: crime scene - tree falls (television)

Script only

• 2016: Country thriller - Dragon Maiden

Awards

• 1981: Austrian Award for Film Art ( The Angels so far )
• 1982 and 1984: Styrian Film Prize
• 1992: Carl Mayer Screenplay Award for the Diagonale ( Schatz im Silbersee )
• 1995: Erich Neuberg Prize ( a beginning of something )
• 1995: Prize of the SZ readers' jury of the Max Ophüls Prize ( A Beginning of Something )
• 1995: Second Feature Film Award of the Ludwigsburg Film Festival ( A Beginning of Something )
• 1998: Public beaver at the Biberach Film Festival ( The Three Men )
• 2009: German Television Award - Best Director ( Half a Life )
• 2010: Grimme Prize for writing and directing Half a Life
• 2010: Erich Neuberg Prize for Half a Life
• 2009: Austrian Adult Education TV Award for writing and directing Ein halbes Leben
• 2013: 3sat audience award for "The Extinction"
• 2013: TV award of the Austrian adult education together with Agnes Pluch for "Die Auslöschung"
• 2014: Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award (together with Agnes Pluch) for "Die Auslöschung"
• 2016: TV Award from Austrian Adult Education in the TV Film category for the children of Villa Emma together with Agnes Pluch

Web links

• Nicholas Leytner in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TV drama about Alzheimer's: Brandauer and Gedeck as a couple
2. ↑ Lotus Film: The Dead by the Pond ; accessed on August 30, 2015
3. ^ Art report of the Austrian Ministry of Education 1981 PDF file
4. ↑ www.drehbuchforum.at ( Memento of the original dated November 28, 2007 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. 
5. ^ Carl Mayer Screenplay Prize: All winners since 1990
6. ↑ Press release from ORF
7. ↑ Max Ophüls Prize Winner since 1980  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF file  
8. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 4, 1995, p. 32
9. ↑ All award winners ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2009 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. Biberach film festival 
10. ↑ German Television Award 2009 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2010 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. 
11. ↑ derStandard.at: TV award for adult education to Leytner, Liska and Novak . Article dated June 21, 2017, accessed June 22, 2017.