Walter Bannert

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Walter Bannert (born November 28, 1942 in Vienna ; † September 10, 2020 ) was an Austrian film and television director as well as cameraman , film producer , screenwriter and film editor .

Life

The qualified electrical engineer began his career as a photographer and cameraman. In 1962 he shot his first experimental short film with Blau-Weiß-Rot . From 1965 to 1969 he worked as a cameraman and director in cultural, advertising and industrial films. His first short film, Johannes Maria Walddorf, was made in 1967, followed by the short films Die Wienerin (1968) and Die Landstreicher (1968), for which Bannert received the promotion award of the City of Vienna.

In 1970 he co-founded the production company Cinecoop Film and continued to shoot advertising and industrial films as well as (often in collaboration with Werner Fitzthum ) documentaries for Austrian television, including Children in front of the Screen (1972), The Vienna City Library , Opinion Researchers Under the Magnifying Glass and Rural architecture in Austria . From 1976 to 1978 he directed the two-part documentary Johann Nestroy 1801–1862 ; Bannert was also responsible for the editing.

In the feature film sector, Bannert initially worked as a producer; His productions included Das Manifest (1974) by Antonis Lepeniotis and The happy minutes of Georg Hauser (1974) by Mansur Madavi . In the latter, Bannert also took the title role.

At the end of the 1970s, Bannert left the Cinecoop and founded Bannert-Film , for which he made his first feature film in 1979/80, What does it cost to win? wrote, directed and produced. The film was released in 1981 and won the main prize at the children's film festivals in Lecce, Giffoni and Moscow.

One of the main characters in What does it cost to win? was the young actor Nikolas Vogel , who also played the leading role in the following two films by Bannerts. Die Erben (1982) was a drama about a boy entering the neo-Nazi scene, Herzklopfen (1984) was a comedy about a young couple who are expecting a child. The heirs (50,000 moviegoers) and Herzklopfen (97,000 moviegoers) each received the Austrian Film Prize for the most successful Austrian film of the year at the box office.

After two further, internationally produced feature films, Bannert worked as a director for television films and series since the late 1980s, mainly in Germany. He staged several crime scenes , in 1993 numerous episodes of Ein Bayer auf Rügen and 21 episodes of the crime series Der Bulle von Tölz between 1996 and 2000. In 2007, Love for Advanced , a bittersweet comedy (ORF / MDR) was filmed under his direction (production : Epo-Film, screenplay: Konstanze Breitebner ). The main roles were played by Heidelinde Weis and Günther Maria Halmer . His last work as a director was an episode for The Rosenheim Cops in 2016.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film director Walter Bannert died on ORF.at; September 23, 2020; accessed on September 23
  2. ↑ http://www.regieverband.de/de_DE/member/57966/vita
  3. ↑ Information about the first broadcast ( memento of the original from January 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 the ORF program from October 1, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / programm.orf.at
personal data
SURNAME Bannert, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film and television director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2020