Theo Harisch

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Theodor Andreas Harisch (born March 27, 1920 in Vienna ; † October 8, 2010 ibid) was an Austrian set designer and painter for film and television.

Life

Harisch had received his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and began his film career in 1951 as an assistant film architect . In 1956 he moved up to the position of chief architect. The genre he preferred to supply was Heimatfilm ; Harisch also designed the backdrops for other fabrics.

Already at the beginning of the 1960s Theo Harisch was working more and more for the Austrian television ORF . Commissions for the cinema, such as the international depreciation productions of the 1970s, Vollmacht zum Murder and The Secret of the Iron Mask , remained exceptions. In 1969 Harisch created the decorations for the television series The Old Judge with Paul Hörbiger , and two years later those for When the Father with the Son with Fritz Eckhardt . Another two years later, in 1973, he created the sets for another successful ORF series with Eckhardt, Hallo - Hotel Sacher… Porter! .

In 1977 Theo Harisch took part in the design of the buildings for the famous four-part US television series Holocaust - The Story of the Weiss Family (some of which were shot in Austria) . In 1983 Harisch largely stopped his work as a film architect or production designer. In his later years until his retirement in 1992 he worked as a painter, most recently (1988–1992) Theo Harisch took care of the paintings for the ORF children 's program Erichs Chaos . He then went into retirement.

Harisch was buried at the Mauer cemetery (group 47, row 2, number 1) in Vienna.

Filmography

Theodor Harisch's grave

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 534.

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personal data
SURNAME Harisch, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harisch, Theodor Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian production designer and painter for film and television
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2010
Place of death Vienna