Paul Harather

Paul Harather (born March 30, 1965 in Mödling near Vienna ) is an Austrian film director , producer and screenwriter .

Life

Paul Harather graduated from the Urban School in San Francisco, USA, and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . He began working full-time as a director during his studies. With India he directed one of the most successful films in Austria. He has been working on international TV commercials since the late 1990s.

Since 2006 he has been running his own film production company "Breitwandfilm" in Vienna and has concentrated more and more on television series and movies. In 2015 he founded a production company in Munich, the "Neue System Agentur", with which he produced the TV series Sedwitz for ARD .

He is a member of the Academy of Austrian Films and the European Film Academy .

In 2011 he made an unexpected and successful comeback as a director, author and producer with the German-Austrian television series Schlawiner ( Bayerischer Rundfunk , ORF ).

With AMS - Mutris Welt ( ORF ), Im Schleudergang ( Bayerischer Rundfunk ), CopStories (ORF, originally Talpa, Netherlands) and "Sedwitz" (ARD) he is involved in other television series.

Awards

• In 1994 he was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize for his film India from 1993 .
• In 1996 he received the Golden Romy for Best Screenplay for "Ouch !!!" .
• In 2000 he received the Audience Award for "The Ragu Incident" at the New York International Film Festival .
• In 2011 he received the Erich Neuberg Prize for Schlawiner

Filmography

• 1988: Soltana
• 1990: The guarantee
• 1990: waiting
• 1991: five minutes to eternity
• 1992: Cappuccino Melange
• 1993: India
• 1996: Ouch !!!
• 1997: Christmas fever
• 1998: Small rolls
• 1999: Fresh goods
• 2000: The Ragu Incident
• 2000: Vulture in the rice edge
• 2001: arabesques around the frog
• 2001: The praying mantis
• 2003: Adam & Eve
• since 2011: Schlawiner (TV series; Breitwand / ORF / Bayerischer Rundfunk)
• since 2011: AMS - Mutris Welt (TV series; Breitwand / ORF)
• 2012–2015: In the spin cycle (TV series; Infafilm / Bayerischer Rundfunk)
• 2013: CopStories (TV series; ORF)
• 2015: flowering dreams
• 2015: Sedwitz (TV series; NSA Germany / ARD)
• 2017: The company thanks

Web links

• Paul Harather in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Paul Harather in the catalog of the German National Library
• Breitwand.at - Website of Paul Harather's production company