Squidward Podgorski

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Thaddäus "Teddy" Podgorski (born July 19, 1935 in Vienna ) is an Austrian radio and television journalist , actor , theater director and author .

Life

Origin and education

Teddy Podgorski grew up in Vienna's 11th district, Simmering , Am Kanal in the so-called health insurance houses and in Spital am Pyhrn . His father Thaddäus was an old Austrian, from Lemberg , aristocratic, originally Polish-speaking Uhlan officer and later a motor vehicle foreman. In Germany he had to assemble V1 and V2 rockets in underground tunnels with Polish concentration camp inmates . One of Teddy's uncle had a locksmith's and mechanic's workshop in Spital am Pyhrn and employed his father there. Teddy's mother Henriette was the nanny for a wealthy Jewish family before the war . During one of the family's many stays in Trieste , Henriette met her future husband Thaddäus senior. know. Another daughter comes from the marriage, a solo dancer in Linz .

Teddy Podgorski attended the Admont Abbey High School in Styria , where he graduated . He then went to Vienna and studied art history and German language and literature for six semesters .

Career start

Teddy Podgorski began his artistic career in Vienna on various theater stages: first he acted as an extra in the castle and the State Opera and then also played small roles in cellar theaters, in the Vienna Konzerthaus , in the Parkringtheater, in the Theater der Jugend and in the Volkstheater .

However, because, according to his own statement, he earned too little at the theater, he switched to the radio station Rot-Weiß-Rot in 1953 . Via the head of the current service, Heinz Fischer-Karwin , he finally got to the radio of the Austrian broadcasting company - with no income and no “roof over his head” . He made his first radio column at the University of Vienna on a "language course for foreigners". Fischer-Karwin was enthusiastic about it and Podgorski was “firmly anchored on the radio”.

TV pioneer at ORF

“Out of high spirits” he went to the newly founded television of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) on July 1, 1955, but continued to stay with the radio. Podgorski came to the current service through the first television director, Gerhard Freund . There he became the inventor and the first and then only editor of the time in the picture . Until 1963 he was the senior editor of the current service.

At the time, the young Podgorski family lived in a basement apartment in the municipal building in Eroicagasse in the 19th district, “around the corner from Molden ”, where Helmut Qualtinger also lived . After the birth of his first son, his (first) wife was still in the hospital, Podgorski was "kicked out" of the ORF by TV director Freund. The occasion was a critical film about Persia and the Shah of Persia , Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , in the run-up to a planned state visit and the "fairytale wedding" with Farah Pahlavi (December 21, 1959), which was broadcast on November 27, 1959. The Shah is said to have canceled the state visit because of this. (He finally visited Austria in May 1960). “The vortex was very big, the journalists even wanted to call a general strike.” On December 2, ÖVP politicians demanded clarification in a parliamentary question (to the wrong place), like a reporter on official Austrian television “a criticism that contradicts any diplomatic practice and defamation of the Iranian regime and His Majesty the Shah in an unskilled form ”. The FPÖ -Abgeordnete Gustav Zeillinger protested on December 3 in his speech the National Council against the dismissal of a small staff, who had been so specially sent to Iran and its director know the broadcast content had without disciplinary action. As a result, Podgorski was allowed to return to ORF.

In 1967 he finished a report on the opposing worlds during the Salzburg Festival with the words: “The hippies smoke their joints and the citizens sit in the theater.” Because of this “left-wing formulation”, General Manager Gerd Bacher contacted the editor-in-chief Franz Kreuzer and asked for Podgorski to be removed because “he doesn't need Bert Brecht in his current service.” However, since he had not committed anything, he couldn't be dismissed. “Then I was a white elephant, actually the first, and I was very bored.” From this time on he began to develop his own broadcast formats. Made by Bacher into chief reporter and sports journalist in the same year, he invented boxes and a sports panorama . With this program, now renamed Panorama , he had become interesting for the reporters. He brought Walter Pissecker to work as a co-designer, and in 1970 he received the Golden Camera for the show . From 1968 to 1971 he headed the ORF recording studio in Vienna for the Eurovision joint program Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst , which is still broadcast today under the direction of the Second German Television ( ZDF ) . In 1972 Podgorski was appointed ORF sports director.

Other programs he created and moderated were Panorama, Seinerzeit (“Mister 'Seinerzeit'”), Jolly Joker (“... was sold, rightly, as a men's magazine”) and Seitenblicke . In the course of time he was still a short time director of FS 1 (today ORF one ) and information director.

ORF general director

In 1986, Podgorski took over from Gerd Bacher for a period of management of the ORF and was replaced by the latter in autumn 1990. As general director, Podogorski had introduced TV regionalization with federal state television, u. a. invented the series Universum , and in 1988 initiated the minority editorial team with the Sunday program Heimat, Fremdte Heimat and the national minority programs. According to his statement, the board of trustees was against all these programs; because of the sideways glances, which he also invented and introduced , they [the board of trustees] would have wanted to throw him out because it was supposedly tabloid television.

During his tenure at the GI, Podgorski signed important contracts with the broadcasters in Eastern Europe for the first time and pushed ahead with the expansion of programs for the joint public broadcaster 3sat .

Before the summer of 1990, Podgorski was re-elected against Gerd Bacher, who he thought was politically desirable again. During his general management, Podgorski created a broadcast format In - The ORF Quarter Hour, in which he himself commented on his work. With the last issue on 27 September 1990 he took of the viewers goodbye in function to the end of the term of office on 11 October 1990. In the previously sent on July 11, time in the picture , he was asked about his defeat, to which he replied:

"Why did I lose? It's a very simple thing. Because it was a political decision, and a purely political decision. So far I have been the only one in this House in this post who has consistently and aggressively fought against party influence. And on the basis of the law, very consistently. And that doesn't work in Austria. If you don't pack in Austria, you won't survive. Quod erat demonstrandum . But there is life after death. "

- Teddy Podgorski : Original sound in: "Zeit im Bild": GI election, July 11, 1990.

Looking back in the film portrait from 2015, Podgorski sums up the time of his general management as follows:

“If so many messes hadn't happened, I'd have been amused, ned. But there was already a lot to it, ned, the works councils and [...] everything, and all these bribery layers. I don't want to tell you anything about the whole thing. [...] Actually, General Director was an episode in my life. But one that I wouldn't want to miss. "

- Teddy Podgorski : Original sound in the portrait 2015.

In this portrait, Podgorski also identifies the drive for his removal as GI in his connections to Udo Proksch and their joint CUM club activities (see below).

Investigation Committee "Lucona"

Teddy Podgorski was also criticized by the National Council in the parliamentary investigation committee "Lucona" set up by the SPÖ and the ÖVP to investigate the criminal machinations of Udo Proksch: In 1973, Proksch founded the association CUM ("Association for the Promotion of Civilians and military efforts in terms of research and development in the field of environmental protection ”). The initiator was the then Defense Minister Karl Lütgendorf , the president was Proksch and Podgorski vice-president and managing director. The association served as the legal entity for various dubious businesses of Udo Proksch. The committee examined (under point 5) “Handing over of military equipment to“ CUM ”” and “[unlawful] demolition exercises and theft of explosives”. General manager Podgorski was summoned to the committee on June 2, 1989 to testify. There he played films on the subject of "Lucona", which he also referred to in the 2015 film portrait.

Finally, in the committee report (published on November 4, 1990, i.e. after the end of his general management), Podgorski was summarized as follows:

“Today's ORF general manager Thaddäus PODGORSKI allowed himself to be too frivolously involved in the transactions between PROKSCH and LÜTGENDORF and made himself the managing director of the CUM association, which PROKSCH had promoted for the procurement of armed forces material. Scenes such as the flight with PROKSCH in the ORF helicopter to visit the PROKSCH eyewear factory, or the PROKSCH party in an ORF saloon car guarded by army soldiers are an expression of a mentality that is indifferent to the frivolous abuse of public facilities. What back then could no longer be regarded as harmless sociability appears today against a macabre background. "

Actor and author

As a film actor, he mimed the Gestapo agent and opportunist Pfalzner in 1981 and subsequently in the Bockerer films .

Podgorski played repeatedly both in television films and in the theater. He staged in the Theater in der Josefstadt and at the Wiener Kammerspiele and participated in productions of the State Opera , the Volksoper and the Mörbisch Seefestspiele .

After his time at ORF, acting has become his main job. In 2003 he had a guest appearance on the television series Inspector Rex (episode: Famous at Any Price ). Today he still plays in the theater in der Josefstadt and on the stages of various summer plays, as well as working as a theater director. In addition, he continues to work as an author.

Gastlok Gutruf

Podgorski belonged to the so-called "Gutruf party" and in the early 1990s to the group he called " Task Force " to rescue Gutruf , of which he has been a co-owner since 1992. The Gutruf people were the only critics of his programs he recognized during his time with ORF, and he trusted their judgment.

From 2010 he hosted a talk show in Conversation with Teddy Podgorski on Servus TV . The legendary Beisl Gutruf was recreated as a studio backdrop .

Job titles

Since Teddy Podgorski is active in many areas both professionally and privately (“ Hans Dampf in allen Gassen ”; Der Standard, 2015), a classic classification of his job titles is hardly possible. The Vienna ORF tried to summarize Podgorski's 70th birthday in July 2005 as follows:

“He was or is an actor, amateur boxer, racing driver, director, author and by the way one of the most legendary television heads in this country. Classifying Teddy Podgorski is sometimes not that easy, his career has so many facets. "

- Quoted from: wien.ORF.at

Private

Podgorski is the father of three sons, among them the director Teddy Podgorski jun., And lived with his family in Döblingen's Helmut-Qualtinger-Hof from 1960 to the early 1980s . The family had a summer house together in Gumpoldskirchen , where Podgorski lived all year round, while the family who had separated from him stayed in the Vienna apartment. In 1969 he met his future wife Margit Hummer at ORF, who worked as an editor for the Panorama program . In 1986 the couple married. Teddy Podgorski and his wife live in Vienna and Burgenland.

Sports enthusiasts are assigned hobbies "as an amateur boxer, racing driver, aviator, rider, cyclist and lover of English classic cars". In the 1990s, the committed sports pilot campaigned - ultimately unsuccessfully - to preserve the Burgenland sports airfield in Trausdorf near Eisenstadt .

Filmography

Feature films

Film portrait

  • 2015: Teddy - a television legend turns 80. Film portrait of his son Teddy Podgorski jun.

Publications

  • Cassius Clay. Ueberreuter, 1971
  • Teddy Podgorski presents muscles on paper. Verlag der Österr. State Printing Office, 1986
  • Olympic Games (12: Innsbruck 1976). Molden-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1976

Awards and honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Birthday: Teddy Podgorski is 70. wien.ORF.at, July 19, 2005. Accessed on July 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ Written question 59 / J, IX. Legislative period of December 2, 1959: “Inquiry from the members of parliament Mitterer , Mittendorfer , Dr. Hofeneder and comrades to the Federal Minister for Transport and Electricity Regarding a television broadcast on Friday, November 27, 1959, about Iran. “
    Written answer 39 / AB, IX. Legislative period of December 24, 1959 (it is not the Ministry of Transport that is responsible, but the Federal Government)
  3. ^ Stenographic minutes, 15th session of the National Council of the Republic of Austria, IX. Legislative period, December 3, 1959 , Member of Parliament Gustav Zeillinger, pp. 471–472 (PDF-pp. 31–32)
  4. ↑ Josef Votzi, Jeff Mangione: “For me the State Treaty was a disaster.” Teddy Podgorski on the question of whether the Second Republic is over. In: kurier.at. May 8, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016 .
  5. ↑ wien.orf.at “Teddy” Podgorski celebrated its 80th birthday on July 18, 2015, accessed on December 14, 2018
  6. ↑ ORF minority editorial office: 25th anniversary celebrated with a film presentation in parliament. ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: kundendienst.ORF.at, April 9, 2013. Accessed July 21, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kundendienst.orf.at
  7. ↑ a b c d e Teddy-Podgorski: ORF pays tribute to the TV all-rounder on his 80th birthday. In: Der Standard / Austria Presse Agentur , July 13, 2015. Accessed July 21, 2015.
  8. ↑ a b c d e The Teddy - A television legend turns 80. EA on July 13, 2015 as part of the Kulturmontag on ORF 2 ; abridged as ORF-2 Sunday matinee on July 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ See: Austrian National Council XVII. GP, 122nd meeting on December 1, 1989, shorthand protocol, p. 14442, Dr. Gugerbauer ( FPÖ ): “High house! Nobody other than the ORF general manager Thaddäus Podgorski commented on these practices in detail in a “profile” interview. He has firmly rejected the interference of the political parties on program issues. | Mr. Chancellor, at least take this criticism of the ORF general manager seriously! ”( Online (PDF, 12 MB; p. 81) on the website of the Austrian Parliament.)
  10. ^ Report of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the investigation ( committee of inquiry "Lucona" ), 1000 of the enclosures to the shorthand protocols of the National Council XVII. GP, published on November 4, 1990. ( Online (PDF, 3.67 MB) on the website of the Austrian Parliament.)
  11. ^ Committee report 1990, pp. 20ff.
  12. ↑ "Finally, at its meeting on June 2, 1989, the committee of inquiry was shown three film cassettes relating to the subject of" Lucona "brought by general manager Thaddäus Podgorski - who was invited as a witness that day." (Committee report 1990, p. 28 .)
  13. ^ Committee report 1990, p. 39 (capitalization of the names taken from the original).
  14. ↑ orf.at: ORF is editor of the year . Article dated December 15, 2017, accessed December 15, 2017.
  15. ↑ Puls 4-Info boss Corinna Milborn is “Journalist of the Year” in Austria . Article dated December 15, 2017, accessed December 15, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Podgorski, Squidward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Podgorski, Teddy; Podgorski, Judas Thaddäus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian radio and television journalist, actor, theater director and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna