Wolfgang Lesowsky

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Wolfgang Lesowsky
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Wolfgang Lesowsky (born October 13, 1942 in Vienna ; † November 13, 2010 ibid) was an Austrian film and theater director , actor and author .

Life

Wolfgang Lesowsky, son of a judge, grew up in Vienna and received his training from 1958 to 1961 at the Krauss drama school . Then he was assistant director to Fritz Kortner , Hans Lietzau and Karl Paryla at the Münchner Kammerspiele . He then worked at theaters in Vienna, where he met Erich Neuberg and became his personal assistant. Erich Neuberg and Karl Paryla later described Lesowsky as his most important teachers.

From 1964 he worked as a director in theater, film and television.

In 1970 Lesowsky was the founder, director and organizer of “Arena 70” as part of the Wiener Festwochen and “Arena 70/2” in Vienna. The “Arena 70” took place in the Museum of the 20th Century , where Lesowsky gathered for a few weeks the avant-garde from literature, theater and music, such as HC Artmann , Alfred Kolleritsch , Wolfgang Bauer , Gunter Falk , Gerhard Rühm , Andreas Okopenko , Erich Fried , Robert Schindel , Erwin Piplits, Kurt Schwertsik , Otto M. Zykan , Ram Chandra Mistry, the New York street theater group “La Mama”, the Ensemble Kontrapunkte u. v. a. These events were groundbreaking for similar activities, such as the arena , the open-house at Styrian autumn , the young scene in Salzburg and the Randspiele Bregenz .

In 1979, Lesowsky was the founder and longstanding board member of the Association of Austrian Film Directors , which was later renamed as the Austrian Film Director Association .

From 1980 he was visiting professor for film and television at the University of New Mexico , USA. From 1980 to 1982 he had a teaching position for TV directing at the Film and Television Department of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Wolfgang Lesowsky was a member of the Austrian PEN Club , the IG Autorinnen Authors , the Association of Austrian Film Directors, the Austrian Society of Fine Artists and the Vienna Secession.

He was married to the artist Corinne Hochwarter; the film editors Sonja Lesowsky-List and Tanja Lesowsky are his daughters, his sons-in-law are the image master Wolfgang A. Hermann and the director Niki List (†).

Awards

Create

author

Plays
  • The Turks are coming . Play with Reinhard Federmann . Manuscript, Vienna 1968.
  • Elephant wedding. A piece of theater in 22 scenes all about freedom of the press . In collaboration with Günther Nenning ; Music by Georg Kreisler . Sessler Verlag, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-85173-026-7 .
  • Intensive care unit . Play. Manuscript, Vienna 1980/81.
  • Lafnitz "Oberschützener version" . Adaptation after Peter Wagner . Manuscript, Vienna 1994
  • The game of love Augustin . Editing and new version of the play by Ulrich Becher and Peter Preses . Sessler Verlag, Vienna 1996.
  • Lecture . A musical dramulet. Manuscript, Vienna 2009.
Poetry
Scripts
Novels
  • Nothing works anymore . The story of Johann Breitwieser. Manuscript, Vienna 2010.
Numerous other scripts for feature films, television games, studio adaptations, music productions, artist portraits and documentaries.
Articles on cultural policy in newspapers and specialist magazines.
Participation in the Austrian Film Funding Act .

Director

Film and television directing

Feature films
TV games and studio adaptations
Opera adaptations
Music productions
Artist portraits
Documentation
Other work for television
  • 1967: Celebration for the youth of Austria - Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg .
  • 1967: night studio . With Wolfgang Kudrnofsky. TV series until 1969.
  • 1967: The literary salon . With Herbert Eisenreich. TV series until 1969.
  • 1968: Forum discussion with Günther Nenning . TV series until 1971.
  • 1968: National Day 1968 - Wiener Stadthalle .
  • 1969: A poem from 3 perspectives - Ingeborg Bachmann . Experimental film with Corinne Hochwarter and Ben Nathan.
  • 1969: world of books . With Wolfgang Kraus .
  • 1972: television . Together with Gottfried Bechtold . Experimental film for Documenta 5 in Kassel.
  • 1976: Graduation ceremony of the XII. Winter Olympics . Innsbruck.
  • 1977: Telemuseum . 50 episodes. With Walter Koschatzky . TV series until 1979.
  • 1981: Café Central . With Ernst Wolfram Marboe . TV series until 1991.
  • 1990: Maecenas Gala . Art Nouveau Theater Vienna.
  • 1993: Maecenas Gala . Technical Museum Vienna.
Numerous broadcasts of performances by Austrian theater productions
Sports broadcasts

Radio control

  • 1970: A person without remorse or conscience . By Robert Schindel.
  • 1972: fourteen hundred thirty-one . From Wolfgang Bauer . Music: Werner Pirchner .
  • 1976: The Political Song .
  • 1977: Now it's raining red tears . Jura Soyfer.
  • 1979: From black wine - Theodor Kramer .
  • 1994: This earth is full of hunger and full of bread - Jura Soyfer .
  • 1998: To the next born - Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler .
  • 1998: Songs after the curfew - The cheeky Viennese song .
  • 2000: Conversations between two gentlemen at the rushing sea . With Peter Baumann and Wolfgang Lesowsky.

Theater productions

  • 1964: Don Juan comes out of the war . From Ödön von Horváth . Ateliertheater Vienna
  • 1967: Mr. Wuschelkopf's castle in the air . By Georg Kövary . Music: Norbert Pawlicki , costumes: Birgit Hutter . Theater an der Wien , world premiere.
  • 1968: The Turks arrive . By Reinhard Federmann and Wolfgang Lesowsky. With Wolfgang Gasser . Theater an der Wien, world premiere.
  • 1969: Almost a Hamlet . From Klaus Mazohl. Set design: Jörg Neumann and Bernd Müller. With Klaus Maria Brandauer. Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna, world premiere.
  • 1969: snow white and rose red . According to the Brothers Grimm. Set design: Jörg Neumann and Bernd Müller. Music: Werner Pirchner. Theater of Youth , Vienna.
  • 1970: box, words of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, box . By Edward Albee . Set design: Jörg Neumann and Bernd Müller. Music: Kurt Schwertsik. With Erika Pluhar, Corinne Hochwarter, Eva Pilz, Bernd Burchhardt. Arena 70 as part of the Wiener Festwochen, Museum of the 20th Century , Austrian premiere.
  • 1970: Mascha, Mischa, May . From Paul Pörtner . Set design: Jörg Neumann and Bernd Müller. Music: Werner Pirchner. With Corinne Hochwarter. Theater der Jugend, Vienna, Austrian premiere.
  • 1970: The Centaur . From Georg Kaiser . Set design: Jörg Neumann and Bernd Müller. With Corinne Hochwarter, Heinz Petters . Volkstheater Vienna.
  • 1972: Romeo and Juliet 80 . From Winfried Bruckner . Music: Werner Pirchner. With Corinne Hochwarter, Katharina Galseczy (= Karin Brandauer ), Peter Gruber, Ernst Hausknost, Harry Fuss . Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, Vienna, world premiere.
  • 1973: The lust of decency . By Luigi Pirandello . Stage design: Jörg Neumann and Bernd Müller. Costumes: Birgit Hutter. With: Wolfgang Lesowsky, Anton Duschk, Ferdinand Kaup, Corinne Hochwarter. Performance as part of the Wiener Festwochen.
  • 1974: Voice of the Mute . Amnesty International . With Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ulla Jacobsson , Hilde Krahl , Elisabeth Orth, Karl Paryla, Erika Pluhar, Walther Reyer and Peter Vogel . Wiener Konzerthaus.
  • 1981: elephant wedding . By Wolfgang Lesowsky in collaboration with Günther Nenning. Music: Georg Kreisler, stage: Jörg Kossdorf, costumes: Hanna Wartenegg. With: Peter Uray, Otto David, Gerard Balluch, Petra Fahrnländer, Fritz Holzer , Schauspielhaus Graz , world premiere.
  • 1994: Lafnitz "Oberschützener version" . Adaptation after Peter Wagner . Costumes: Corinne Hochwarter, music: Kurt Schwertsik. With Maria Perschy , Stephan Paryla, Klaus Haberl and Ferdinand Kaup. Burgenland cultural centers.
  • 1996: The Game of Dear Augustin . By Ulrich Becher and Peter Preses . Stage: Jörg Neumann, costumes: Corinne Hochwarter, music: Wolfgang Ambros and Robert Stolz . With Wolfgang Ambros, Herwig Seeböck, Sabine Muhar , Ida Krottendorf , Erna Korhel. Ronacher , Vienna.

actor

The actor
theatre
  • 1961: Drums and Thistles . Book and production: Conny Hannes Meyer . Die Komödianten, Theater am Börseplatz Vienna.
  • 1961: O all bones faded . Book and production: Conny Hannes Meyer. Die Komödianten, Theater am Börseplatz Vienna.
  • 1962: The accounting . Book and production: Conny Hannes Meyer. Exhibition Palace Vienna.
  • 1962: The Pompfüneberer . Book and production: Conny Hannes Meyer. Role: Hügli Ruhsam Rush step. Neues Theater am Kärntnertor , Vienna.
  • 1964: The evil spirit Lumpazivagabundus . From Johann Nestroy. Production: Karl Paryla. Role: A watchman. Kammerspiele Munich .
  • 1965: The ballad by Peckham Rye . By Muriel Spark . Production: Jan Biczycki . European studio of the Salzburg Festival.
  • 1966: The Russian Triangle . By Françoise Sagan . Production: Florian Lepuschitz. Role: Vladislav. Theater in the Palais Archduke Carl, Vienna.
  • 1967: The eyesore . By Ludwig Anzengruber . Role: son. Renaissance theater , Vienna.
  • 1968: The Kobold or Staberl in fairy service . From Johann Nestroy. Production: Karl Paryla. Theater an der Wien.
  • 1968: Black Orpheus - Modern negro poetry . By and with Wolfgang Lesowsky. Theater in the Palais Archduke Carl , Vienna.
  • 1973: The lust of decency . By Luigi Pirandello . Production: Wolfgang Lesowsky. Role: Baldovino. Wiener Festwochen.
  • 1974: The twelve jurors . By Reginald Rose . Production: Helmut Kutscher. Role: No. 12 (advertising man). Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna
movie theater
watch TV
Solo evenings
  • To those born later . A collage about the life, work and collaboration of Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler.
  • The end of the world or the world will no longer stand long . A literary foray through Austrian literature.
  • Karl Kraus: "I am the bird that pollutes its nest" . Aphorisms. Scenes from the tragedy The Last Days of Mankind .
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Truth & Fiction .
  • Max Frisch - Do you consider yourself a good friend?

Others

In 1960, Lesowsky and Werner Christen founded the “Real Jass Club Vienna” to cultivate traditional jazz, of which he was president until his death.

Sound carrier (direction, recording and production management)
  • 1974 Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Couplets and monologues . With Karl Paryla. Piano accompaniment: Hans Kann.
  • 1976: Sholem Alejchem . I am not a Rothschild . With Mario Kranz.
  • 1981: elephant wedding . Incidental music by Georg Kreisler. With Armin J. Schallock and Walter Kohls. Graz Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Georg Kreisler.
  • 1992: So and so Knock on Hollywood . With Werner Puntigam, Peter Androsch , Andreas G. Luger.
  • 2001: Johann Nestroy - This is a crazy idea . Couplets and monologues. With Karl Paryla. Piano accompaniment: Hans Kann.

Quotes

  • “Here we experience the astonishing: Wolfgang Lesowsky finds the appropriate cinematic expression for each of his topics, 'condenses' it in the truest sense of the word into optical poetry. What Wolfgang Lesowsky has to offer with his work can thus be described in one word: the art of film. ” Helmut Zilk
  • “Wolfgang Lesowsky is one of those - yes, when I think about it, I don't know anyone better of his kind… - one of those, they are still, still young, they still have a lot ahead of them, but they belong to the sort of - how should you call them differently - the real artist. My friend is 'gifted with the happiness of personality'. ” Karl Paryla
  • “Anyone who has got to know Lesowsky's films about visual arts and artists will be surprised by the 'legibility' of his pictures. It stems from the fact that he reduces the speed of the picture sequences and picture changes (take everything in all!) To the human level. I don't think that he does this with a pedagogical intention (because his intention is always an artistic one), but it seems to me that he is educating us to see, indeed to look actively. " Kurt Blaukopf
  • “First of all, he is in himself a 'pluralistic being', ie always striving for self-discovery and ready to allow the most diverse strivings and impulses, which are in himself as in all others. So he is the opposite of a linear existence, in the sense of Friedrich Heer , and always ready when he approaches a topic to allow different viewpoints and not to be one-sided. […] Lesowsky can also be described as an enormously political person. Despite all his disenchantment with politics, which is increasing today, in view of the terrible mistakes made by politicians, he feels that he is striving for a positive development of our democracy. That he also has the appropriate moral courage not to tremble in front of royal thrones, he has demonstrated most impressively through his play 'Elephant Wedding'. ”Erwin Ringel
  • “Now I finally had the opportunity to watch the recording of the encounter in the fog […]. I'm excited! […] You did a wonderful thing there. Thank you. ” Johannes Mario Simmel
  • “He was the author, the designer, the spokesman for new films, he acted in his colleagues' films and, above all, with his unmistakable timbre in his voice, he set essential theatrical accents, he wrote plays, organized culture, sat on specialist committees for film culture Austria, taught in Vienna and in the USA [...] what he does, he does it with tremendous commitment, what came out of it was always to be taken seriously and carried by deep conviction. " Walter Fritz
  • “Wolfgang Lesowsky is difficult, uncomfortable and persistent. That makes him unpopular in some places, even suspicious. It is difficult because there is no conformist. Inconvenient because only willing to compromise under duress. Persistent, because he always tries to implement his ideas. Wolfgang Lesowsky has been involved in television history and actively experienced the development of a medium. He never shared the current fashion, but always tried to follow his personal style. ”Karl Löbl
  • "Wolfgang Lesowsky, whose filmic work on aspects of the visual arts I know in detail, is one of the very few professional filmmakers who try to translate the autonomy of a work of art into film language in addition to all biographical appreciation." Manfred Wagner
  • “The Burgtheater could do a lot with this film. The path from the dry workshop to the juicy game becomes uninterrupted, seamless and universal. Ambience and core only merge with filmic means and due to the film direction to a full view and deeper insight. The art of film in service and as an intensification of other arts! ” Viktor Matejka

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the "Real Jass Club" ...
  2. ↑ cinematography, 104/1984, p. 2
  3. ↑ cinematography, 104/1984, p. 3
  4. ↑ cinematography, 104/1984, 5.
  5. ↑ film art, 104/1984, pp. 8
  6. ↑ cinematography, 104/1984, p. 10
  7. ↑ Filmkunst, 104/1984, p. 13f.
  8. ↑ Filmkunst, 104/1984, p. 14.
  9. ↑ a b Filmkunst, 104/1984, p. 15.

literature

  • Interim report. A retrospective selection as part of steirischer herbst in cooperation with the Austrian Film Archive. (= Series of publications of the Austrian Film Archive; Mitteilungen. No. 13). Austrian Society for Film Studies, Communication and Media Research, Vienna 1984.
  • Cinematography. Journal for film culture and film studies . Edited by the Austrian Society for Film Studies, Communication and Media Research. Special issue Wolfgang Lesowsky. Vienna 1984, 104/1984, ISSN  0015-1599 .
  • Gerhard Ruiss (Hrsg.): Catalog lexicon on Austrian literature of the 20th century . Volume 1, Verlag IG Autor , Literaturhaus, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-900419-18-3 , p. 222.
  • Movie. Watch TV. Austria. In: Filmarchiv Austria. Issue 10–11, Vienna, May 2005.
  • Thomas Ballhausen, Barbara Eichinger, Karin Moser, Frank Stern (eds.): The facts of the soul - Arthur Schnitzler and the film . Filmarchiv Austria publishing house, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902531-13-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lesowsky, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film and theater director, actor and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2010
Place of death Vienna