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Wolfgang Glück (born September 25, 1929 in Vienna ) is an Austrian director (film, theater, opera) and screenwriter .

Life

Glück studied theater studies and German language and literature in Vienna and Zurich in 1947 and, after dropping out of studies from 1948 to 1953, worked as an assistant director for Hans Thimig and Josef Gielen at the Burgtheater in Vienna. From 1953 he directed more than 70 plays and operas, including at the Vienna Burgtheater (1969 to 1975), at the Schauspielhaus Zurich (Liebelei), at the Wiener Festwochen in the Theater an der Wien (Offenbach: Princess von Trapezunt ) and at the Schauspiel Frankfurt as well as in Bonn, Dortmund, at the Kammerspiele Hamburg, at the Berlin Theater, at the Theater in der Josefstadt, at the Vienna Volkstheater, at the Salzburg State Theater ( Jacobowsky, Soyfer: "Vineta, Fidelio, La Traviata and others), at the Frankfurt Opera ( Ariadne auf Naxos), the Volksoper Vienna (Hary Janos), the Graz Opera, at the Darmstadt Opera and Drama (Chekhov, Feydeau) as well as at the Bregenz Festival (Haydn operas, Hochwälder: Donadieu ) and the Salzburg Festival (WP Wolf Dietrich ) .

He began directing films in the late 1950s. He made his debut with Der Pfarrer von St. Michael , with Erich Auer in the leading role. Numerous works for German and Austrian television followed from 1961. The student Gerber with Gabriel Barylli and Werner Kreindl appeared in 1980 and is based on the novel of the same name by Friedrich Torberg .

His film 38 - That too was Vienna , based on the book That too was Vienna by Friedrich Torberg, was set in Vienna after Austria was "annexed" to the National Socialist German Reich. The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1987 in the category Best Foreign Language Film , but had to admit defeat to the film The Attack by Dutch filmmaker Fons Rademakers .

Glück, which belongs to the Association of Austrian Film Directors , acted from 1989 onwards, recommended by Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann , until after about 2000 as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year. “But you always have to pay money. $ 250 a year. And I haven't done that for a long time. […] If you stop paying, you're out, ”Glück explained in an interview in 2014.

From 1994 to 2003 Glück was a (guest) professor for film directing at the Vienna Film Academy (Department of Film and Television at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ), from 1997 also its director. He has also been a lecturer at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna since 1971 . He was also a visiting professor in Graz, at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna .

In May 2017, the Filmarchiv Austria honored the 87-year-old with a comprehensive retrospective of his works, which was shown in Vienna's Metro cinema . In the same month retrospectives of the work of Germaine Dulac and Peter Nestler were shown.

Wolfgang Glück was married to the actress Christiane Hörbiger from 1962 to 1967 . He is the father of two daughters from his second marriage to the actress Claudia Glück. His uncle is the Austrian American actor Paul Henreid (1908–1992), known from the film Casablanca .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Michael Omasta, Michael Pekler: "Halt Heimatfilme und Pornokrimis" , Interview with Wolfgang Glück, in: Wochenzeitung Falter , Vienna, No. 9, February 26, 2014, p. 30 f.
  2. The filmmaker as a gentleman: Wolfgang Glück ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrospective of the Filmarchiv Austria , accessed August 19, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / filmarchiv.at
  3. Salzburger Nachrichten of September 24, 2014, accessed July 5, 2016