Ludwig Wüst

Ludwig Wüst (born 1965 in Bavaria) is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and film producer.

Life and work

Wüst studied drama and voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He worked as a theater director in Frankfurt, Berlin, and at the Leipzig Opera in Vienna (including the Vienna Festival and Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story Hotel Orient ).

During his time at the theater he wrote themselves pieces, such as Erika Mann - I was a very gebrandtes child for the Vienna Festival or at that time, the story of a woman who gets the order to give birth to the Savior and decides to abort the child. The planned premiere on 24 December 1996 led to a scandal and a temporary ban on performance. The following day the piece was, after negotiations with the church, politics and the organizer are premiered.

In 1998, Ludwig Wüst as an actor at the premiere of the 6-day game of Hermann Nitsch in Prinzendorf Castle, Lower Austria, in part.

Years later libertine turned to the film. His feature film debut was in 2009 KOMA and aroused great artistic and media attention. The cinematic language Wüst was compared due to their realism and their unwillingness to compromise with Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl and the Dardenne brothers. The medium length feature film TAPE END (2011) turned libertine in a single setting, 60 minutes without any cutting, which he was not present during the shoot itself and the actor had with his instructions alone.

The Internet as a cinematic medium plays a special role in Wüst's work. So was parallel to the official release in Austria a European release as video-on- demand over the Internet with KOMA. In his short film PASOLINICODE02112011 Wüst went a step further with the premiere of the Internet. On 2 October 2011, Pier Paolo Pasolini to death, the film was released on his own website. Only then was followed by the launch at film festivals and the presentation as a video installation at the Kunsthalle Wien.

The film My Father's House, was presented in April 2013 at the 21er Haus, the museum of 21st century art in Vienna for the first time, the international premiere, he celebrated at the Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. The film is both a stand-alone work, on the other hand he is the pilot film for the home movie project, an anthology film, which will tell using different cinematic media of lifestyles people from different backgrounds and generations and is currently in work.

Filmography

Feature Film ( Writer, Director and Producer ):

• 2009: KOMA

Shorts and medium-length films ( Writer, Director and Producer ):

• 2002: Egyptian darkness
• 2005: Paula
• 2005: Close-up
• 2006: Two Women
• 2011: TAPE END
• 2012: PASOLINICODE02112011
• 2013: My Father's House

Documentation (director and producer):

• 2007: Bon Voyage

Awards

• Hof International Film Festival in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013: Official Selection
• Diagonal 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013: Selection and Competition
• Moscow International Film Festival 2009 and 2011: Official Competition Perspective
• Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal 2009: Official Competition
• Reykjavik International Film Festival 2009: Official Competition
• Viennale 2009: Official Selection
• Tamil Nadu International Film Festival 2009: Best Film for KOMA
• Max - Ophüls-Preis Saarbrücken 2010, 2013: Official Selection
• Split Int. Film Festival 2010: Official Competition
• North Cape Film Festival 2010: Official Competition
• One Take Film Festival Zagreb 2012: Official Competition
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2013: Official Selection
• Göteborg International Film Festival 2013: Official Competition