Roland Teichmann

Roland Teichmann (born April 19, 1970 in Salzburg ) has headed the Austrian Film Institute since May 2004 . On June 24, 2019, his term of office was extended for the fourth time to June 30, 2024. Before that, the trained lawyer was managing director of the professional association of the audiovisual and film industry in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce .

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Roland Teichmann has headed the Austrian Film Institute since May 2004. After initially studying history, political science and ethnology at the University of Innsbruck, he graduated in law from the University of Vienna . At the end of 1999 he joined the Austrian Chamber of Commerce as a lawyer in the field of industry. In 2001 he was appointed managing director of the professional association of the audiovisual and film industry of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, the legal representation of interests of the entire Austrian film and music industry, followed by the appointment of director of the Austrian Film Institute.

Roland Teichmann was, among other things, managing director of the Association of Film Distribution and Distribution Companies of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, board member of the Austrian Film Commission (AFC), representative of the professional association of the audiovisual and film industry at the international producers' association Féderation Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films (FIAPF), board member the European Film Agency Directors (EFAD), founding chairman of the advisory board of the television film funding fund of the broadcasting telecom regulatory authority (RTR / Communication Authority Austria ), founding member of the advisory board of the Austrian film funding agency created by the Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth and the Federal Ministry of Finance ( FISA), national representative in the film funding of the Council of Europe Eurimages , member of the European Film Academy (EFA) and lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , "Film Academy Vienna" for the field of film funding and funding.

In 2008 Teichmann was named Chevalier de l´ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of the Arts and Literature) by the Republic of France and in 2016 Chevalier de l`Ordre Grand-Ducal de la Couronne de Chêne (Knight of the Order of the Oak Crown ) of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (2016).

In 2018 a publication on the subject of film funding, co-authored and edited by Teichmann, was published.

In June 2019, his contract as Director of the Film Institute was extended to June 30, 2024.

Fonts

• Handbook of State Aid for Film. - Finance, Industries and Regulation , Springer International Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-71714-2 .

Web links

• Austrian Film Commission - Interview with Roland Teichmann, May 2013
• APA OTS - Roland Teichmann remains director of the Austrian Film Institute, April 2013

Individual evidence

1. ^ "A hopeful 'lateral entrant': Roland Teichmann" , Der Standard , December 17, 2003
2. ↑ Roland Teichmann extended as director of the film institute. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .