Theo von Hörmann

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Theodor "Theo" von Hörmann (born March 4, 1914 in Reutte , Tyrol ; † January 14, 1994 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian film producer and cameraman . The Austrian landscape painter Theodor von Hörmann of the same name was his great-uncle.

Life

After attending the Innsbruck School of Applied Arts, Theodor von Hörmann first came into contact with film in 1931. In the production of Luis Trenker's film Mountains in Flames , he worked as a porter, extra and camera assistant. Hörmann was also hired as a camera assistant for the next Trenker film The Rebel . However, due to the global economic crisis, the budding cameraman is initially forced to work as a ski instructor and mountain guide. In his spare time he produced his first films. These were youth and local culture films such as "Schemenlauf" or "Sommerlager" . The film "Summer Camp" already won third prize at an amateur film festival in Paris in 1937 .

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Hörmann was drafted. After deployments in Poland , he was obliged to set up the photography position at the Heeresgebirgsschule in Fulpmes . For this he also produced a number of instructional and training films that show the training of soldiers in the mountains and on deployment in winter.

Then he was deployed as a war correspondent with the “Schlebrügge” ski battalion . Field Marshal Bock commissioned Hörmann to make documentary films about the soldiers' deployment on the Eastern Front . “Film the war as it is,” was the instruction. Hörmann created a six-hour report on the madness of the war from his film material. After the presentation of the film to leaders in Berlin , it was confiscated and disappeared.

After returning from captivity in 1945, Hörmann mainly made non-fiction, educational and cultural films. He was also involved as a chairman in the newly founded union section. He later became a board member of the Austrian Film Industry Association in Tyrol . In addition, Hörmann worked for 15 years as a representative for the Austria weekly newsreel in western Austria.

In the mid-1950s he founded his own production studio in Innsbruck. The film producer often worked with the castle actors Walther Reyer or Dietmar Schönherr . Both played speaking roles in many of his films. Professor hc Herbert Müller, Bert Breit , Harry Pleva and Werner Pirchner wrote film scores, Herbert Müller being the most prominent with over ten pieces of music. Hörmann only engages the best copywriters for the texts.

Films about the 100th anniversary of the Alpine Club , the Brenner motorway or the Innsbruck Alpine Zoo are just as much a part of his work as a scientific documentary about " penicillin " and many films about Tyrol's industry. Hörmann accompanied an Italian K2 expedition with his camera. It created "price at the top of the world" and "Song of Lahore" .

Hörmann shot his only full-length production for the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , the official Olympic film "In the mountains of Tyrol" . The film was dubbed in 12 languages, screened in 36 countries and won prizes in Rome , Cortina and at the Berlinale .

Hörmann's films have been sold worldwide and many have been awarded coveted prizes or the title “valuable”.

Theodor "Theo" von Hörmann died in Innsbruck in 1994 .

reception

A large part of Hörmann's over 100 films is now stored in the Tyrolean State Museum and in the Austrian Film Archive in Vienna . Walter Hörmann, son of Theo von Hörmann and also a cameraman, was recently able to view and digitize an important part of his father's film treasure together with the employees of Filmarchis Austria.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1936–1937: We boys out , knitting nights , Schemenlauf , Tyrol's big home day
  • 1938–1940: Igloo, the snow house , The Black Book of the Mountains
  • 1942: Schijäger at the enemy , Schijäger clear up
  • 1943–1945: climbing in ice , climbing in rock , building positions from the Apennines to Lake Garda
  • 1946: The bells ring forever , Eternal Craft (Production: Wieser-Film)
  • 1950–1951: rope and skis , rescuers in the snow , flying on a boat
  • 1952–1953: Skisterne , Sestriere , We look into Tyrol
  • 1954–1955: Journey to Styria , Alpine roads , mountain guides , victory on the K2
  • 1956–1957: Innsbruck yesterday and today , A new penicillin , song from Lahore
  • 1958–1959: Everything for the guest , rescue wings
  • 1960: Sun over Seefeld , Tyrolit
  • 1961: Olympic Winter Games I , Olympic Winter Games II ,
  • 1962–1963: Olympic Innsbruck , career of a rocket nozzle , 100 years of the Alpine Club , two bars and yet music (DKW commercial)
  • 1964: In the mountains v. Tyrol (official Olympic film), metals for space travel
  • 1965–1966: Summer in Tyrol , Tyrolean Cut Stones , The White Arlberg
  • 1967–1968: Winter in Tyrol , Shining Zillertal , From the Amber Trail to the Autobahn
  • 1968–1969: Maximilian I , Maximilian in Tirol
  • 1969–1971: Metallwerk Plansee , memories of Paul Schwarzkopf ,
  • 1973–1974: Relax in Tyrol , Eisacktal , modern skiing , revue Tyrol
  • 1976–1977: Metall Tirol , Das Ötztal , Röhren aus Tirol , Problem-free across the Alps
  • 1979–1982: Pipes extreme , Industrie Tirol

literature

  • Magic of the canvas. 100 years of film in Alt-Tirol , exhibition catalog, Trento-Bolzano / Bozen-Innsbruck 1995
  • Theo Hörmann: A Life for Film , exhibition catalog, Innsbruck Photo Show 1996
  • Helma Türk: Filmland Tyrol! A journey through Tyrol's film history , p. 128ff, (short biography of Theo v. Hörmann), self-published Innsbruck-Bad Reichenhall 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Prof. Müller to Walter v. Hörmann from February 4, 2013. Archive Walter v. Hörmann.