Walter Fritz (film scholar)
Walter Fritz (* 1941 in Klosterneuburg ; † February 13, 2020 in Vienna ) was an Austrian film scholar.
He studied theater studies, art history and philosophy at the University of Vienna , where he also received his doctorate, and has worked as a lecturer for film and television history since 1970. Likewise at the universities of Salzburg, Klagenfurt and Munich. From 1966 he also worked in the Austrian Film Archive , for which he had already discovered numerous sources and films from the Austrian film past . From 1980 to 1996 he was its director. He was the author of around 30 specialist books on film history.
Works (excerpt)
- In the cinema I experience the world - 100 years of cinema and film in Austria. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85447-661-2 .
- with Gerhard Tötschinger: Masquerade - Costumes of Austrian Films; a myth. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00575-2 .
- In the cinema I experience the world - 30 years of film reconstructions in the Austrian film archive. Vienna 1992.
- Memories of Count Sascha Kolowrat. Vienna 1992.
- Cinema in Austria 1929–1945 - The sound film. Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-215-05666-6 .
- The city without Jews. Vienna 1991.
- 1938 in the film - Before / After. Vienna 1989.
- Sodom and Gomorrah - the legend of sin and punishment. Vienna 1988.
- The Viennese film in the Third Reich. Vienna 1988.
- The sixties. Vienna 1987.
- Cinema in Austria - 1945–1983 - film between commerce and avant-garde. Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-215-04992-9 .
- The miller and his child - reconstruction of the 1st surviving Austrian feature film. Vienna 1982.
- Cinema in Austria 1896–1930 - The silent film. Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-215-04429-3 .
- Documentaries from Austria 1909–1914. Vienna 1980.
- History of Austrian Film. Bergland publishing house, Vienna 1969.
- The Austrian feature films of the sound film era 1929–1938. Vienna 1968.
- Alexander Girardi and the film. Vienna 1968.
- The Austrian feature films of the silent film era 1907–1930. Vienna 1967.
- Development history of the Austrian feature film. Dissertation . 4 volumes, Vienna 1966.
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Fritz in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fritz, Walter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Klosterneuburg |
DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 2020 |
Place of death | Vienna |