Zoltan Paul

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Zoltan Paul (full name: Zoltan Paul Pajzs Freiherr von Rácalmás , born December 25, 1953 in Budapest ) is an Austrian actor , director and musician of Hungarian origin.

Life

Zoltan Paul emigrated to Austria at the age of 12. There he caused a sensation as the guitarist and singer of the rock group Dust , won several band competitions and was considered "the fastest guitarist in Upper Austria".

Paul graduated from drama school in Vienna in 1978 . During his apprenticeship he published several short stories in Viennese literary magazines and he worked in the orgies and mysteries theater of the Viennese actionist Hermann Nitsch . After roles in films by Michael Haneke ( Lemmings), Reinhard Schwabenitzky a . a. and after a two-year engagement at the Schauspielhaus Wien , theater engagements followed at the Stadttheater Münster , at the United City Theaters in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach and four years at the Grillo-Theater in Essen. He also played in German television productions.

In the 1990s he switched to directing, staging at theaters in Austria and Germany. His own pieces Salieris Mozart (Vienna, Innsbruck) and Rausch , a rock opera loosely based on the play Der Lügner by Carlo Goldoni, should be emphasized . He started writing scripts with the aim of directing films. In 2001 Zoltan Paul made his first short film Gone . In 2003 he produced the feature film Gone - A Deadly Passion with his then wife Adele Neuhauser in the lead role, produced by his own company Atoll Film and produced by 13th Street / Universal Studios Network . The film was shown in 2004 in the competition of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata in Argentina and from March 7, 2004 in German cinemas.

In 2008 Zoltan Paul directed the comedy Unter Strom , produced by Next Film Filmproduktion Berlin, for which he received the Thomas Pluch Prize for the script . The film, the music of which his son Julian Pajzs wrote, had its world premiere in June 2009 at the Munich Film Festival ; it was released in German on December 10, 2009. The film was released in Austria in October 2010. Pauls Frauensee was created in 2012 . The film about a homosexual women's quartet was shown at the Hof Film Festival and at the Asian film festival in Busan / South Korea, as well as at the gay and lesbian film festivals in Toronto, San Francisco, Milan, Boston, Lisbon, Prague and 30 other cities. Frauensee came to the cinema in 2013 at Edition Salzgeber.

In 2014, Amok - Hansi geht's gut , a crowdfunding-financed film production, was shot. Amok - Hansi is doing well celebrated its German premiere at the Hof Film Festival and immediately afterwards at the Biberach Film Festival. It was released in theaters at Daredo / Darling Berlin in May 2015.

In 2015 he made the comedy Personal Damage , for which he directed and wrote the screenplay. In September 2015, the filming of Breakdown began in Tokyo - A father goes crazy . A documentary film team accompanies the “Futur-Rock” band from Berlin on their Japan tour. When the somewhat older director falls in love with a young Japanese woman, the film mutates into a music road movie tragic comedy with turbulent emotional rollercoaster rides for everyone involved.

Zoltan Paul is a member of the German Film Academy .

Filmography (selection)

presentation

Director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welser Zeitung 1972
  2. ^ Official website of Gone
  3. ↑ a b Gone - Interview with Zoltan Paul ( Memento of the original from May 24, 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. at kino-zeit.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kino-zeit.de
  4. ↑ “'Gone' in the Mar del Plata competition” at Blickpunkt: Film
  5. ↑ The official website of Unter Strom
  6. ↑ "Thomas Pluch Price: Lourdes', 'undercurrent' and Kameramörder '' at Standard.at
  7. ↑ “Again 'Under Power': Zoltan Paul” in Der Westen
  8. ↑ Zoltan Paul. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on March 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Zoltan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paul Pajzs Freiherr von Rácalmás, Zoltan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director and musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest