Peter Patzak

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Peter Patzak, 2012

Peter Patzak (born January 2, 1945 in Vienna ) is an Austrian film director . The interdisciplinary artists turned to a study of subjects art history , psychology and painting the film to.

Patzak is the son of a police officer with the rank of major , as he told the TV magazine Seitenblicke on the occasion of the presentation of the movie Kottan: Rien ne va plus in Vienna's Gartenbaukino .

Director

Peter Patzak (l.) And Jan Zenker 2009

From 1968 to 1970 he worked in New York . After returning to Vienna, he made his first feature film The Situation (1972). Peter Patzak has also directed numerous television films ; best known for being crime film - parody Kottan determined , he from 1976 for seven years for the ORF produced. In 1978 he presented a highly acclaimed film adaptation of Martin Walser's Das Einhorn , where Walser himself worked on the script and later praised the film adaptation.

The director has received numerous awards such as the Director's Prize at the Venice Biennale, the Max Ophüls Prize , the Adolf Grimme Prize , the Golden Romy , the Berlin Film Festival Prize and a UNESCO Prize .

Since 1993 he has been teaching directing at the Vienna Film Academy . In 1996 he filmed the novel Hotel Shanghai by Vicki Baum .

actor

As an actor, Peter Patzak worked mainly in Austrian television productions, mostly with cameo appearances in his own films (mainly determined in Kottan, where he was seen as a police officer, among other things).

painting

In 1962 Patzak exhibited for the first time as a painter, after which his pictures were shown from Basel to New York, in 1996 a Peter Patzak retrospective (works from 1961 to 1996) could be visited in the Saarland Künstlerhaus. In 2005, one of his works was auctioned on ebay for the benefit of the Hermann Gmeiner Fund Germany eV.

Theater direction

In February 2007 Patzak presented his first theater production at the Wiener stadtTheater in Walfischgasse . It was for a stage version of the film Interview by Theo van Gogh , played by Dieter Laser and Elke Winkens . Patzak also designed the stage set for this performance.

Fiction

His novel The Spirit of Color was published by Ritter in 2005 , and another book with the title Nudes in Silence was published in 2008 by Klever Verlag .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Lukas Foerster: Laboratory for a genre cinema without a future. Peter Patzak's horror fantasy PARAPSYCHO - SPECTRUM OF FEAR (1975). In: Filmblatt. 17th year, no. 49, summer 2012, 13–23.
  • Karin Moser, Andreas Ungerböck (eds.): Peter Patzak. Director, author, painter. Vienna, Filmarchiv Austria 2009.

Web links

Commons : Peter Patzak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORF 2 : Side Glances. Edition December 2, 2010 Video ( Memento from December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), ORF TVthek .
  2. ↑ Auction according to BeyArs.com.
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
  4. ↑ Culture Prize for Peter Patzak , Municipality of Klosterneuburg, accessed April 14, 2017.
  5. ↑ Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna to Peter Patzak. February 17, 2020, accessed February 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Patzak, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna