Wolfgang Murnberger

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Wolfgang Murnberger 2015 at the premiere of Das Ewige Leben in Vienna

Wolfgang Murnberger (born November 13, 1960 in Wiener Neustadt ) is an Austrian director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Murnberger graduated from the Federal High School and Federal High School in Mattersburg in 1980 . He studied directing, screenwriting and editing at the Vienna Film Academy and from 1984 onwards (removing make-up) completed a number of short films. His autobiographically inspired graduation film, the feature film Heaven or Hell (1990), received an award at the Austrian Film Days and also attracted attention and prizes at several international festivals.

Murnberger's second film I pledge (1994), the first after graduating from the film academy, also had autobiographical features. The film, for which he wrote the script himself, became his first major national success. The film, which is about an Austrian military man with an identity crisis, reached 52,000 cinema-goers in Austria and was awarded the Vienna Film Prize for best director at the Viennale . In 1995 it was Austria's contribution to the Oscar abroad, but was not nominated.

This was followed by the television film Auf Teufel komm raus (1995) and the television film Quintet Complete (1998). In 2000 Murnberger's most successful production to date, the detective satire Come, Sweet Death, based on a novel by Wolf Haas with Josef Hader in the leading role. With 230,000 admissions in Austria, it was the sixth most-visited film since the beginning of the visitor count in 1981. In Germany, too, the film attracted 122,000 admissions. The sequel Silentium appeared four years later and was even more successful. Although the film reached slightly fewer cinema-goers in Austria (205,000) than its predecessor, the film was also released in Switzerland (12,000 cinema-goers) and reached 171,000 in Germany. The sequel also received more attention at film festivals, for example when it came second in the audience award at the Berlinale 2005 .

From 2002 to 2005 Murnberger also achieved great audiences with the TV trilogy Brothers , in which popular cabaret artists took part. In addition to cinema and television films, Murnberger also directed individual episodes of television series, so far Four Women and One Death (2005–2007) and three Tatort episodes (1997, 2007, 2011).

In 2009 the third part of the Simon Brenner trilogy was released. With more than 278,000 moviegoers in Austria alone, The Bone Man became Murnberger's biggest movie success to date.

Wolfgang Murnberger founded the Academy of Austrian Films together with other Austrian filmmakers in 2009 and is a member of the board.

Wolfgang Murnberger has been a professor of directing at the Vienna Film Academy since the 2013 winter semester.

Filmography

movie theater

Murnberger (r.) With Wolf Haas and Josef Hader at the premiere of Das Ewige Leben (2015)

watch TV

Documentaries

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.filminstitut.at - Österreichisches Filminstitut visitor numbers (page requested on March 9, 2008)
  2. ↑ lumiere.obs.coe.int - Lumière, database of film attendance figures in Europe , Come on, sweet death (page accessed on March 9, 2008)
  3. ↑ lumiere.obs.coe.int - Lumière, database of film attendance figures in Europe , Silentium (page accessed on March 9, 2008)
  4. ↑ The Film Academy says goodbye to Peter Patzak in: Der Standard from June 27, 2013 (last accessed on February 27, 2014)
  5. ↑ Murnberger calls for better film funding ORF, November 27, 2010, accessed on November 27, 2010
  6. ↑ orf.at: ORF triumph in the television award for adult education . Article dated June 21, 2018, accessed June 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Murnberger, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt , Austria