Paul Fierlinger

Paul Fierlinger (born March 15, 1936 in Ashiya , Japan ) is an American animator , director and film producer of Czechoslovak origin.

Life

Fierlinger was born as the son of the Czechoslovak diplomat Jan Fierlinger in Ashiya, Japan. His uncle was Zdeněk Fierlinger . In 1939, Fierlinger and his family fled from the National Socialists to the United States, where he lived with foster families. His Jewish mother's parents were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp .

After the end of the war, Fierlinger returned to Czechoslovakia with his parents and attended an elite boarding school in Poděbrady with Miloš Forman and Václav Havel, among others . He studied at the University of Applied Arts in Bechyně , which he graduated in 1955. After two years in the military, Fierlinger worked in Prague as an illustrator and cartoonist and from 1958 as a producer for animation films. He went to the Netherlands in 1967, then to Paris and worked for a short time in Munich as an animator on the animated film The Conference of the Animals , which appeared in 1969. Fierlinger went to the United States in 1968, where he founded his animation studio Ar & T Associates in Philadelphia in 1971 . He mainly produced advertising films for television, but also short animated films. It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House , which Fierlinger directed and produced, was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Best Animated Short Film.

Fierlinger created the Teeny Little Super Guy series for Sesame Street in 1982 . With his second wife, the painter Sandra Schuette , he designed the Amby & Dexter series for Nickelodeon in 1997 . Since 2004, Fierlinger has taught animation at the University of Pennsylvania 's Fine Arts School (PennDesign).

Fierlinger's first marriage was to photographer Helena Straková ; the divorced marriage has two sons.

Filmography

• 1969: The Conference of Animals (animation only)
• 1975: Why We Take Care of Property, or Planet of the Ticklebops
• 1976: Why We Need Reading, or The Piemaker of Ignoramia
• 1978: Rainbowland
• 1979: It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House
• 1980: Louis James Hates School
• 1982: Teeny Little Super Guy
• 1988: The Quitter
• 1990: And Then I'll Stop… Does Any of This Sound Familiar?
• 1995: Drawn from Memory
• 2000: Drawn from Life
• 2001: Still Life with Animated Dogs
• 2003: A Room Nearby
• 2009: My Dog Tulip

Awards (selection)

• 1980: Oscar nomination , Best Animated Short , for It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House
• 1980: OIAF Award, Ottawa International Animation Festival , for It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House
• 1988: OIAF Award, Ottawa International Animation Festival, for The Quitter
• 1990: OIAF Award, Ottawa International Animation Festival, for And Then I'll Stop… Does Any of This Sound Familiar?
• 2000: Grand Prize, Ottawa International Animation Festival, for Drawn from Life
• 2002: Special Jury Prize, Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films , for Still Life with Animated Dogs
• 2004: Grand Prix, Ottawa International Animation Festival, for A Room Nearby

Web links

• Paul Fierlinger in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Paul Fierlinger biography on sonycreativesoftware.com
• David Kilmer: What Price, Independence? Interview with Paul Fierlinger, Animation World Magazine, No. 4.2, May 1999.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} See interview with Paul Fierlinger on forward.com
2. ↑ See design.upenn.edu ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2012 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.