Walter Kienreich

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Walter Martin Kienreich (born July 3, 1950 in Graz ) is an Austrian television director , documentary filmmaker and journalist . In 1977 he founded the Viennese city newspaper Falter .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a construction and machine fitter and the Matura in the Werkschulheim Felbertal in Salzburg , Kienreich completed his military service and studied theater studies at the University of Vienna .

Study stays in Hamburg and Berlin , but also the events in the summer of 1976 around the three-month occupation of the arena site in the former Sankt Marx slaughterhouse in Vienna inspired him to found the city newspaper Falter . The first edition appeared in May 1977. In November of that year, Kienreich, who as owner, editor and publisher had sole responsibility for the financial and content, left the Falter debt-free to the editorial collective by means of a donation agreement, which gave him part of his investments in ten monthly installments of 5000.- Schilling refunded. By renouncing further claims, Kienreich wanted to ensure the survival of the butterfly .

In 1978 he received his doctorate. phil. A postgraduate scholarship enabled him to complete a comprehensive television education at the Media Department of the British Council in London in 1979/80 . First TV documentary "Hidden Messages / City Marks" in 1980 about London graffiti . Kienreich has been a permanent freelancer at ORF since 1981 . As editor and director, he oversaw numerous programs in the television entertainment sector. From 1995 to 2002 he was a member of the international advisory board of the Rose d'Or television festival in Montreux . As the editor of the ORF society magazine Seitenblicke , he has designed around 2500 articles since 1988. Kienreich is the author and designer of numerous television documentaries and travel reports. He and cameraman Harald Mittermüller received an UNDA prize for the documentation Der Wiener Stadttempel .

Walter Kienreich is married and lives in Vienna and Lower Austria.

TV productions (selection)

  • ORF Universum : The Tomb Raiders of Peru (script and direction)
  • SWF / ORF Treasures of the World : Schönbrunn Palace and Gardens (script and direction)
  • SWF / ORF Treasures of the World: The Old Town of Salzburg (script and direction)
  • ORF Der Wiener Stadttempel (script and direction)
  • ORF Die Steine ​​von Sankt Stephan (script and direction)
  • ORF Illuminated in the head: the photographer Franz Hubmann (script and direction)
  • ORF / OWN PRODUCTION Without a litter, no case: The painter Robert Hammerstiel ( script and direction)
  • ORF For life and death: Time images from baroque Vienna (script and direction)
  • ORF The oldest construction site in Austria: Our St. Stephen's Cathedral (script and direction)
  • ORF Die Wienerin ( script and direction with Hermann Sternath )
  • ORF Die Winterreise - The graphic work of Robert Hammerstiel (script and direction)
  • ORF Die Dombauhütte zu St. Stephan (script and direction)
  • ORF / ARIOLA Steirermen - A portrait of the Stoakogler ( script and direction)
  • ORF The Capuchin Crypt : A cultural monument is falling into disrepair (script and direction)
  • ORF 40 years of Wiener Festwochen : City festival between tradition and modernity (script and direction)
  • ORF Mummies in the Primeval Forest (script and direction)
  • ORF operettas and other Viennese stories (book) Director: Hermann Sternath
  • ORF Musical travel pictures from Austria: St. Gilgen (book collaboration and editing) Director: Wolfgang Glück
  • ORF Musical travel pictures from Austria: Südburgenland (editing and book (with Arthur Lauber )) Director: Otto Anton Eder
  • ORF André Heller : FLIC FLAC I & II (editor)
  • ORF André Heller: Hear voices (editor)
  • ORF Friedrich Cerha : Keintate (editor)
  • ORF Various shows with Gerhard Bronner , Udo Jürgens , Heinz Holecek , Topsy Küppers , Eberhard Waechter u. a. (Editorial staff)
  • ORF 1986–1999 around 300 sketches with Ossy Kolmann as Mr. Straub in the "Cafe Lotto" (responsible for broadcasting and directing (with Gottfried Schwarz and Wolfgang Steuer ))
  • ORF 1986-2016 lottery 6 out of 45 (picture direction)
  • ORF Seitenblicke since 1988 around 2500 contributions
  • ORF numerous travel reports and a. Mumbai, Bangalore, Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Lake Garda, Mauritius, Florence, Scotland, Finland, Venezuela, Sri Lanka.

Publications

  • Johann Franz Hieronymus Brockmann or the dimensions of the bourgeois fantasy in the German and Austrian theater of the 2nd half of the 18th century. A theater studies contribution to the cultural history of the second half of the 18th century . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1976 http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AC=4724598
  • The gathering or all goes to favor. An unknown pamphlet from the early days of the Burgtheater. Published from the manuscript. In: Maske and Kothurn 27. 1981. pp. 135–146
  • And then they danced. In: Ulrike Messer-Krol (ed.), Karlheinz Roschitz: The Vienna Opera Ball. From the myth of waltz dancing . Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-639-6 .
  • Various contributions. In: Seitenblicke. The book for the ORF television hit, backgrounds, highlights, hopscotch . Carl Ueberreuter, Korneuburg 1994, ISBN 3-90151-600-X
  • At from and to. In: In the best company . Stories and anecdotes from 25 years of Seitenblicke. Edited by Georg Markus . Amalthea 2012, ISBN 978-3-85002-808-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.falter.at/archiv/FALTER_201209191647420017/raff-die-zeit-35-jahre-falter
  2. ↑ https://www.falter.at/archiv/FALTER_200709262015400109 Falter 39/07, S 80: "Falter founder Walter Kienreich with S. Schlager and A.Thurnher"
  3. ↑ http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/ImageDetail.aspx?p_iBildID=16088877
  4. ↑ https://www.falter.at/archiv/FALTER_200709262015400001/bilder-aus-30-jahren
  5. ↑ "..because he was the only one who had invested money and the production facility in addition to manpower", Mischa Jäger / Armin Thurnher: "Mr. Robinson how did you do that? ”Falter No. 122a, supplement to No. 11/1982, p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Kienreich, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kienreich, Walter Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian television director, documentary filmmaker and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz