Rudi Palla

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Rudi Palla (* 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian filmmaker and writer .

Life & Work

Palla actually wanted to become a typesetter , but could not find an apprenticeship and instead studied mechanical engineering at the Technological Trade Museum in Vienna. From 1964 to 1973 he worked for a Swedish mining equipment company. In 1973 he decided to devote himself to film work. He studied at the Vienna Film Academy and graduated in 1978 with a diploma in image technology.

He first worked for the ethnologist Michael Oppitz as a cameraman for the film Shamans in the Blind Land . Other films with his participation were The Dream of Sandino with Margareta Heinrich and Journey into the Unknown . A number of other documentaries followed. From the early 1970s he worked with the writer Peter Turrini on the scripts for the television series Workers Saga . Palla is one of the founding members of the "Syndicate of Filmmakers Austria" and in 1980 co-founded the film production company "Extrafilm".

In the mid-1980s, Palla began to devote himself increasingly to writing, and in 1989 his first book, Die Mitte der Welt, was published by Christian Brandstätter Verlag . He lives as a filmmaker and author in Vienna.

Movie

In addition to the film works mentioned, documentary films about art in public spaces were made between 2003 and 2010 on behalf of the Culture and Science Department of the Lower Austrian provincial government .

  • ORF feats : On the way to Babylon . TV documentary, 2000, directed
  • Among friends . Feature film, 1988, production management
  • Carinthian Heimatfilm . Documentary, 1983, director
  • Journey into the unknown . Documentary, 1981 - 1982, directors: Rudi Palla, Hannes Zell
  • Sandino's dream . Documentary, 1981, director, camera, script: Rudi Palla, Margareta Heinrich
  • Shamans in the Blind Land . Documentary, 1978-80, camera

Publications

  • In snow and ice: the Schlagintweit brothers' Himalaya expedition . Galiani, Berlin 2019
  • Valdivia. The story of the first German deep sea expedition. Non-fiction book, Galiani , Berlin 2016, ISBN 9783869711249
  • The captain and the artist. The discovery of the Terra Australis. Dumont , Cologne 2013.
  • Off to Friuli: the hidden. Bizarre. Culinary. Folio , Vienna 2013.
  • From chair carriers, wire pullers and pleasure fireworkers. Disappeared professions and their history , Weltbild , Augsburg 2011
  • The world tour of His Majesty Corvette Saida in the years 1884 - 1886 . Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2011
  • Disappeared work: a thesaurus of the lost professions , Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn 1994, series Die Other Bibliothek , further edition Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2010.
  • Short résumés of fools. Zsolnay Verlag , Vienna 2008.
  • Under trees. Travel to the greatest living things. Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2006.
  • Eyebright and Devil's Claw. Edited with Renate Habinger , Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2004.
  • The puppet republic. Provincial Library, Weitra 1998.
  • The Lexicon of Lost Professions. , Eichborn, Frankturt a. M. 1997 1998.
  • The art of kneading children. A recipe book for pedagogy. Eichborn , Frankturt a. M. 1997, series The Other Library
  • Falconers, charcoal burners, engravers. A compendium of the lost professions. btb Verlag , 1997.
  • The middle of the world. Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1989.
  • The poster. A script. (The workers saga 1). with Peter Turrini, Europaverlag , Vienna-Zurich 1989.
  • Garbage mania. A script. (Workers saga, vol. 3). with Peter Turrini, Europaverlag, Vienna-Zurich 1988.
  • The lure. A script. (Workers saga, vol. 2). with Peter Turrini, Europaverlag, Vienna-Zurich 1988.
  • Christoph Ransmayr : The horrors of ice and darkness . (with color photographs by Rudi Palla), Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ö1.orf.at : "The middle of the world". Rudi Palla - chronicler of the unnoticed , design: Heinz Janisch, January 22, 2004. (Accessed October 4, 2013)
  2. ↑ a b dok.at : Rudi Palla (accessed on October 4, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Palla, Rudi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palla, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna