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Austrian film director (1933?1993)
Axel Corti
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Born
| Axel Fuhrmanns
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1933-05-07
)
7 May 1933
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Died
| 29 December 1993
(1993-12-29)
(aged 60)
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Resting place
| Arnsdorf cemetery,
Lamprechtshausen
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Occupation(s)
| Film director, screenwriter
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Years active
| 1963-1994
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Axel Corti
(born
Axel Fuhrmanns
; 7 May 1933 ? 29 December 1993) was an
Austrian
screenwriter, film director and radio host.
Life
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He was born in
Paris
[
citation needed
]
. His father was a businessman of
Austrian
and
Italian
descent, his mother was from
Berlin
. From German-occupied France, he and his mother were brought to safety in
Switzerland
by his father, a member of the
Resistance
who died in 1945. After
World War II
, he moved to
Italy
, where he took on the surname Corti, and finally began to study
German
and
Romance philology
at the
University of Innsbruck
.
Corti worked at public
Radio Innsbruck
from 1953 onwards, from 1956 to 1960 as head of the literature and radio drama department of the Tyrolean
ORF
regional radio. He then turned to a career as an assistant director at the Vienna
Burgtheater
and worked as a director at
Theater Oberhausen
and
Theater Ulm
as well as with
Peter Brook
in
London
. Called up to return to public broadcasting upon a major restructuring of the ORF radio programmes, he made Austrian radio history with the conception of his weekly
Der Schalldampfer
broadcasts, which he presented as radio host for more than 24 years from 1969 until 1993. Initially aired by the ORF
O3
entertainment radio station, Corti's commentaries in a
feuilleton
style and his sounding voice stood out of a mainly light music programme. The last
Schalldampfer
was broadcast three days before his death, featuring the life and work of Rabbi
Hillel the Elder
.
In 1969 Corti worked as an actor in an ORF television play directed by
Wolfgang Gluck
. The next year he adapted Milhaud's/Cocteau's
Le pauvre matelot
(
The Poor Sailor
) and
Angelique
by
Jacques Ibert
(starring
Mimi Coertse
) for an enactment by the
Vienna State Opera
ensemble at
Hofburg Palace
, conducted by
Hans Swarowsky
. Corti also worked as a
film director
and was appointed a professor at the
Filmacademy Vienna
in 1972. His 1975 film
The Condemned
was entered into the
9th Moscow International Film Festival
.
[1]
Corti married in 1964 and was the father of three sons and one daughter. He died of
leukemia
in
Oberndorf
,
Salzburg
and is buried in the Arnsdorf cemetery of nearby
Lamprechtshausen
.
Awards
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Since 1997 an annual
Axel-Corti-Preis
for outstanding TV productions is awarded by several Austrian
adult education
associations.
Filmography
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- The Marquis of Keith
, 1962, play by
Frank Wedekind
- Kaiser Joseph
und die Bahnwarterstochter
, 1963, drama adaptation starring
Hans Moser
and
Hans Holt
- Der Fall Jagerstatter
[
de
]
, 1972, biography of the
conscientious objector
Franz Jagerstatter
- Ein junger Mann aus dem Innviertel
[
de
]
, 1973, biographical sketches on
Adolf Hitler
- The Condemned
(
Totstellen
), 1975
- Jakob der Letzte
[
de
]
, 1975, adaptation of a
Peter Rosegger
novel
- Tatort
(TV series) ?
Wohnheim Westendstraße
, 1976
- Young Dr. Freud
, 1976, film about
Sigmund Freud
- Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord
, 1978, adaptation of an
Alfred Doblin
novella
- Das eine Gluck und das andere
, 1980
- Wie der Mond uber Feuer und Blut
[
de
]
, 1981, ORF television play on
Maria Theresa
's first year in power
- Where to and Back 1:
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
[
fr
]
, 1982
- Herrenjahre
, 1983, film adaptation
- Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift
[
de
]
(
Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand
), 1984, ORF/
RAI
co-production starring
Gabriel Barylli
and
Otto Schenk
, adaptation of the novel by
Franz Werfel
- Where to and Back 2:
Santa Fe
[
fr
]
, 1986
- Where to and Back 3:
Welcome in Vienna
, 1986,
Austrian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
in 1987
- The King's Whore
, 1990, starring
Timothy Dalton
- Radetzkymarsch
[
de
]
, 1994, TV miniseries, based on Joseph Roth's
Radetzky March
novel, starring
Max von Sydow
,
Charlotte Rampling
,
Karlheinz Hackl
,
Fritz Muliar
, and
Franz Tscherne
, directing completed by
Gernot Roll
.
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