Otto Retzer

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Otto Werner Retzer (born September 13, 1945 in Lölling , Hüttenberg municipality , Carinthia ) is an Austrian actor and director for numerous works by Lisa Film GmbH .

Life

Otto Retzer's father was a farmer and his mother was a postman. He grew up in Carinthia in a side valley of the Görtschitztal . After an apprenticeship as a waiter, he became a disc jockey and water ski instructor until the head of Lisa Film, Karl Spiehs , discovered him in 1970, hired him as an assistant and initially entrusted him with small tasks related to his staff. In the film Rudi, behave yourself! Retzer was seen for the first time in an unnamed guest appearance as a camping guard in 1971. At that time still with full hair, he had to replace a bald actor in the 1978 film The Island of a Thousand Delights . The shaved head became Retzer's trademark from then on. He became popular in the television series Ein Schloß am Wörthersee as a guest worker Josip. In 1983 he directed the film Babystrich im Sperrgebiet himself for the first time . Due to the low budget, real pimps and prostitutes were used instead of actors. Nevertheless, the film was a huge success with 1.2 million viewers. This was followed by other sex films such as Love Call and 1984 the Zote Her mit die kleine Schweinchen . His works are often not recognized - u. a. the entertainment films such as Starke Zeiten 1988 with Karl Dall and TV series such as Ein Schloß am Wörthersee and Klinik unter Palmen , he is still considered a busy television director. In 2004 he had ratings of up to 8.7 million for the TV series Das Traumhotel .

In total, Otto W. Retzer acted around 120 times as production manager and around ninety times as director.

As a producer, Retzer u. a. responsible for sex and horror films as well as entertainment films with Thomas Gottschalk and Mike Krüger ( Die Supernasen 1983, Seitenstechen 1985).

He shot twelve of his films in Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic , especially the episodes of the series Klinik unter Palmen .

On the recommendation of film experts, O. W. Retzer received the Golden Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria from Minister of Culture Josef Ostermayer in 2014 , Uschi Glas and Melitta Trunk gave the laudatory speech .

Retzer is married and has two children, including the film editor Olivia Retzer . He lives in Austria on Lake Wörthersee.

From March to May 2017, Retzer was a candidate in the ORF dance show Dancing Stars .

Awards

Filmography

presentation

Director

Production Manager

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Retzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d In conversation with Otto Retzer. ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. presseteam-austria.at, accessed on February 17, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.presseteam-austria.at
  2. ↑ Otto Retzer awarded a gold medal of honor. Kleine Zeitung , December 17, 2014, accessed December 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ Olivia Retzer: Sleek to Success. Kleine Zeitung, October 21, 2017, accessed November 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Otto Retzer, television director - January 20, 2011. diapod.de, accessed on February 17, 2014.
  5. ↑ "I walk with my head held high" - Dancing Stars 2017. (No longer available online.) ORF, archived from the original on May 23, 2017 ; accessed on May 20, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dancingstars.orf.at
  6. ^ Minister of Culture Ostermayer honors director Otto Retzer. APA notification dated December 16, 2014, accessed December 17, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Retzer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Retzer, Otto Werner (full name); Retzer, Otto W .; Retzer, OW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German director
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Lölling