Ulrich Seidl

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Ulrich Seidl at the Odessa International Film Festival (2013)
Ulrich Seidl ( Austrian Film Award 2013 )

Ulrich Seidl (born November 24, 1952 in Vienna ) is an Austrian film director , screenwriter and producer .

life and work

Ulrich Seidl grew up in a strictly religious family of doctors in Horn, Lower Austria . His first feature film was the documentary Good News , which he made seven years after leaving the Vienna Film Academy . He contrasts the areas of life of the people who sell newspapers with those who read them.

Models depicts the everyday life of second-class Austrian models who try to live a glamorous life between the club, apartment and catalog shoot and react to sexist photographers and disappointing relationships with emphasized superficiality and cocaine consumption. The drastic film was confiscated in Slovenia. Animal love portrays animal lovers who have strangely intimate emotional relationships with their pets. In 2001 he published his first feature film, Hundstage , in which professional actors are also used. It was awarded the Grand Jury Prize in Venice and achieved around 250,000 cinema visits internationally.

In 2003 he founded together with Veronika Franz , the Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH . Director and screenwriter Veronika Franz has accompanied all of Ulrich Seidl's films as a long-term artistic collaborator since 1997. She wrote with him and a. the scripts for Hundstage (2001), Import Export (2007), and Paradies Trilogy (2012/13). After Import Export (2007), the first film that Seidl made with his own production company, he created his successful and award-winning Paradies Trilogy (2012/2013), the films of which premiered in the competitions in Cannes, Venice and Berlin. The first part of Paradise: Love in his Paradise trilogy tells of three women in a family who spend their vacations separately from each other. The other parts are about a missionary Catholic ( Paradise: Faith ) and a young person in a diet camp ( Paradise: Hope ). In Paradise: Love is Margarete Tiesel as Sextouristin to see that from Austria to Kenya travels, there to learn of young black men love. For this film, Seidl received his second invitation to the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2012 . At the presentation of the Austrian Film Prize , he was honored as the best film production and in the categories of director and actress (Margarethe Tiesel). In the same year Seidl was invited to the competition of the Venice International Film Festival for the second part of his trilogy, Paradise: Faith . The film is about a single woman, Maria Hofstätter , who goes from house to house on vacation with a "Wandering Mother of God" statue in order to make Austria more Catholic. At home, a guerrilla war develops over marriage and religion when her wheelchair-dependent husband, an Egyptian Muslim, returns to her after years of absence. The last part of the trilogy Paradise: Hope received an invitation to compete at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival .

The film In the Basement shows, among other scenes, men who meet in a basement riddled with Nazi devotional items in Marz , and triggered the resignation of two of those filmed as council members of the ÖVP.

In 2014, Seidl produced the horror film Ich seh Ich seh with Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion , in which the twins Elias Schwarz and Lukas Schwarz played the leading roles. The Austrian directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala took over the direction . Ich seh Ich seh (2014, Goodnight Mommy), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, was sent as an Austrian contribution to the Oscar abroad. A US remake of the film is in the making, produced by the Animal Kingdom production company ("It Follows", "It Comes at Night".)

Over the years, Ulrich Seidl has developed a close relationship with the Drosendorf film club and has a second home in Drosendorf . The premiere of Hundstage took place here at the film club.

style

Logo of Seidl's production company

His cinematic style is often reminiscent of TV documentary dramas. A staged (amateur) drama should look like the documented reality. But Seidl is far more poetic and reserved in his often long and distant shots. His approach to film is documentary film or the documentary in film.

Many consider him an extreme filmmaker because he portrays "with a radical open-mindedness [...] the lonely and ugly, the outsiders and deformed society ...".

Seidl works with formally sometimes disturbing means - long, rigid shots, hard cuts, distance.

Filmography

Ulrich Seidl at the premiere of his film Import Export in Linz (2007)

Awards

literature

  • Stefan Grissemann : Fall of Man. The border crossing of the filmmaker Ulrich Seidl . Special number publishing company, Vienna 2007.
  • Florian Lamp : Reality, just stylized. Ulrich Seidl's films . Büchner-Verlag, Darmstadt 2009.
  • Jürgen Heizmann: "Blasphemy in the cinema. The scandals about VIRIDIANA, THE GESPENST and PARADISE: BELIEVE." In: "Blasphemy" and the war of faith in literature and in the arts . By Hans Richard Brittnacher a. Thomas Koebner. Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89472-712-3 , pp. 138-161.
  • Article about Ulrich Seidl. In: The press

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Seidl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martina Knoben: Disturbance is also a form of contact - an expedition into the world of Ulrich Seidl . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 28, 2010.
  2. ↑ lumiere.obs.coe.int Lumiere - database of film attendance figures in Europe; Retrieved November 8, 2007.
  3. ↑ PARADISE: LOVE In competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival at ulrichseidl.com; Retrieved April 25, 2012.
  4. ^ PARADISE: Faith in the competition at the Venice Film Festival at ulrichseidl.com, accessed on July 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ http://burgenland.orf.at/news/stories/2669952/ "Nazi-Keller": Seidl confirms authenticity, ORF.at, 23 September 2014
  6. ↑ Ulrich Seidl Film Production | In production | I see I see
  7. ↑ International Goodnight Mommy Trailer Will Give You Nightmares
  8. ^ Wenzel Müller: Das Wirtshaus-Kino augustin.or.at, April 10, 2017.
  9. ↑ Rüdiger Suchsland describes the style in a less friendly manner: Racism for the educated among his despisers . Telepolis , January 3, 2013, review.
  10. ↑ See filmfonds-wien.at
  11. ↑ Priser Bergen International Film Festival ( Memento from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  12. ^ Jürgen Haberleithner: Film as a social dimension: Luis García Berlanga and Ulrich Seidl as exponents of social film culture . (PDF; 549 kB) Vienna, September 2003; accessed January 28, 2012
  13. ↑ Culture Awards of the State of Lower Austria 2005 . APA notification dated November 24, 2005, accessed November 28, 2015.
  14. ↑ Gala: Ulrich Seidl receives special jury prize . In: Der Standard , September 8, 2012; Retrieved December 22, 2012
  15. ^ ORF-Online: Decoration of honor to director Ulrich Seidl ; Retrieved Nov. 14, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Seidl, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director, screenwriter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna