World famous in Austria - 50 years of Austropop
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Original title | World famous in Austria 50 years of Austropop |
Country of production | Austria |
original language | German |
Year (s) | 2006-2008, 2011 |
Episodes | 10+ in 3 seasons |
genre | documentary |
Theme music | Rainhard Fendrich - I Am From Austria |
idea | Hannes Rossacher , Rudi Dolezal |
production | DoRo |
First broadcast | November 16, 2006 on ORF 1 |
World famous in Austria - 50 Years of Austropop was a documentary film series from 2006 to 2008. Since 2011 new episodes of the series have been produced.
background
In 1971 the first commercially successful Austropop song Da Hofa was released . In 2006 the Hofer's 35th birthday was celebrated on the occasion . Roughly speaking, the Austropop history goes back to the 1950s / post-war period with Pirron & Knapp or Hans Moser and above all Anton Karas , who was number 1 in the American charts with Harry Lime Theme in his time .
documentation
The documentation shows the stories of Austropop and defines the term with questions such as What is Austropop? or how far does Austropop go? . The documentation was produced by DoRo .
Episodes
- 1st season (2006)
- 1. What is Austropop (including articles about Pirron and Knapp or Hans Moser)
- 2. The big bang of Austropop (including Marianne Mendt , Wolfgang Ambros , Rainhard Fendrich , Georg Danzer )
- 3. Are there female Austropop? (including Maria Bill , Stefanie Werger , Christina Stürmer , SheSays )
- 4. Conversation with attitude (including Minisex , Falco , First General Insecurity )
- 5. World famous in the world (including Falco , DJ Ötzi , Bilgeri , Supermax , Enigma )
- 6. The future of Austropop (including André Heller , Hallucination Company , Global Kryner , Luttenberger * Klug )
- 2nd season (2007-2008)
- 7. The scenes of the scene (including Stereoface ; about the scenes of the federal states and their relationship to Vienna)
- 8. Who does rock music belong to?
Who does Austropop belong to? - 9. Sex, Drugs & Austropop (including Klaus Prünster , Heinrich Walcher , Alkbottle including a portrait of Hansi Dujmic )
- 10. Austropop has no chance - let's use it!
- 3rd season (2011)
- 11. The changing of the guard?
Radiance & prices
At the end of 2006, the first 6 episodes were broadcast for the first time on ORF 1 on Thursday night . From October to December 2007 the ORF repeated the broadcast of the series (this time in orf.music.night ) with two new episodes of the second season. ORF showed the last part of the second season in May 2008. On July 7, 2011, ORF will show a new episode of the third season, which was produced in 2011.
In 2008 the television series was awarded the Romy as the best television documentary.
DVDs
So far, 10 DVDs and two DVD boxes, each with an additional DVD, have been released. Both the documentation and bonus material such as interviews and videos can be found on these DVDs.
literature
- Rudi Dolezal, Joesi Prokopetz (authors), Rainer Schöttle (eds): Austropop - The book: World famous in Austria , Bosworth Musikverlag, 2009, ISBN 3-86543-420-7
Web links
- World Famous in Austria - 50 years Austropop in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- World famous in Austria homepage ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in archive.org from January 6, 2014
- WORLD FAMOUS IN AUSTRIA - "The changing of the guard?"