Wolfram Paulus

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Wolfram Paulus (born August 12, 1957 in Grossarl ; † May 28, 2020 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Paulus studied from 1977 to 1982 at the University of Television and Film in Munich . After doing community service at Salzburger Lebenshilfe, he made his first film with Heidenlöcher , which was shown as an Austrian contribution to the 1986 Berlin Film Festival .

Paul preferred to work with amateur actors . His early films are regarded as pioneers of the New Austrian Film and are characterized by a close look at topics such as home, religion, tourism and childhood or, as in Heidenlöcher for example, drastically demonstrate the oppressive attitude towards life in World War II . An empathic approach to the respective main characters in his stories - Paulus wrote the scripts and edited his films himself - is reinforced by means of a sophisticated sound and editing. The first three films by Paulus are in the Edition Österreichischer Film . Bert Breit or Peter Valentin often wrote the film music.

A retrospective planned for March 2020 in the Filmarchiv Austria in the Metro-Kino Wien could not take place due to the Corona crisis (COVID-19) and will instead take place in the online channel of the Filmarchiv.

Paul died in May 2020 at the age of 62 in Salzburg as a result of cancer.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Filmmaker Wolfram Paulus has died. In: ORF.at . May 29, 2020, accessed May 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ My Lungau. In: www.tv-media.at. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The Austrian Art Prize . Retrieved October 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossarl
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2020
Place of death Salzburg