Rudolf Nussgruber

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Rudolf Hans Raimund Nussgruber (born April 7, 1918 in Vienna ; † July 26, 2001 there ) was an Austrian director in film and television.

Life and work

After finishing high school, the son of the industrialist Gottfried Nussgruber and his wife Leopoldine attended the Reinhardt seminar in his hometown as well as the Academy for Music and Performing Arts and the Graphic Education and Research Institute .

During the Second World War he joined the film industry and began working as an assistant director at Prag-Film (for example, in 1944 for the unfinished crime film Shining Shadows by director Géza von Cziffra ). Nussgruber was active as an assistant director from the very beginning of feature film production in the resurrected Austria, again at Cziffra's side, for example with Glaube an mich (1946) and Queen der Landstrasse (1948). Later he also assisted other veteran directors such as Karl Hartl , Ernst Marischka , Rolf Thiele , Werner Jacobs and Rudolf Schündler .

Rudolf Nussgruber received directorships for the first time during his assistantship in the mid-1950s. The result were two rather insignificant entertainment productions: Schwank Sunshine and Cloudburst and the comedy Love, Snow and Sunshine . His later trips to the cinema were also not very productive, even if the windjammer documentary Flying Clipper definitely had its merits visually. His collaboration on the antique and battle painting Hermann der Cherusker , produced internationally in 1965 , which only found its way into German cinemas with considerable delay, was not mentioned.

Afterwards Nussgruber worked exclusively for German and Austrian television. He shot one-off productions - preferably ambitious TV games with a contemporary historical background such as Carl Schurz , Die Kuba-Kris 1962 , Friedrich III. '... died as emperor' , Count Claus Stauffenberg , Kaiser Karl's last battle , The Pueblo Affaire and General Oster - traitor or patriot? -, but also individual episodes of series. The best known and most successful was the ORF series Ringstrasse Palace in the 1980s . The 70-year-old then withdrew into private life.

Nussgruber was married to the actress Anita Gutwell .

He was buried in the Baumgartner Friedhof (group B, row 9, number 31) in Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

annotation

  1. ↑ according to the documents of the film archive Kay Less

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1221.
  • Ludwig Gesek (ed.): Small encyclopedia of Austrian films . Vienna 1959, p. 43

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personal data
SURNAME Nussgruber, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nussgruber, Rudolf Hans Raimund (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2001
Place of death Vienna