Axel Corti
Axel Corti ( born May 7, 1933, Paris Axel Fuhrmann, † December 29, 1993 in Oberndorf Province of Salzburg, Austria ) was an Austrian film director and writer.
Life
Youth
His father was a German businessman Austro- Italian origin, his mother was from Berlin. In 1943, he fled with his mother from France to Switzerland, his father - a member of the Resistance - have not been granted asylum, he died in 1945 after the end of the Second World War, the family, expelled from Switzerland, moved to Italy ( where he at. mediation of a priest a passport in the name Axel Corti received ), England, Germany and finally Austria. Here he began in Innsbruck with the study of German and Romance Languages and completed agricultural apprenticeship.
Radio work
Axel Corti worked from 1953 for Radio Innsbruck. From 1956 to 1960 he headed the literature and radio play department of the ORF Studios Tyrol, then he was at the Vienna Burgtheater worked as an assistant director. With the 1969-1993 weekly broadcast on ORF TV The muffler he wrote radio history; General Director Gerd Bacher had Cortis accepted on condition of having to submit his lyrics to anyone for approval.
He also resigned as a director of many radio plays in appearance.
Theater and television work
Corti headed to his assistant in Vienna Theater in Oberhausen and Ulm and worked with Peter Brook in London. He filmed literature, designed ORF entertainment programs and shot a few commercials.
1969 Corti played the lead role in the television play produced by ORF jobs, female ( Belvedere) ( comedy by Gwen Davenport; television Adapted and directed by: Wolfgang Glück; broadcast on 5 June 1969 at the first TV program of the ORF).
For the Vienna State Opera, he directed The poor sailor (Music Darius Milhaud, text Jean Cocteau ) and Angélique (Music Jacques Ibert, text Nino, German-language set of Corti ). Premiere was on October 2, 1970 at the Theatre in the ball room of the Imperial Palace, conductor was Hans Swarovsky, the equipment came from Hubert Aratym; Mimi Coertse had a starring role as Angélique.
Advertising
Axel Corti was - as later also other well-known avant-garde artists - invited for the Grazer shoe & leather AG, better known as Humanic to make commercials. The spots " Humanic always fits " (1968) and " Humanic - Environmental Protection Wall" (1973 ) come from Axel Corti, other participating artists were 1976 Andreas Okopenko (spot no longer exists ), 1977, the singer of the duo Musyl & Josepa, 1982 Otto M Zykan and 1988 HC Artmann. .
Film Work
Since 1972, Corti taught at the Vienna Film Academy. As a director, he made himself especially with sophisticated literary adaptations such as Franz Werfel's a pale blue woman writing (1984 ) a name.
Private life
Axel Corti was since 1964 with Cecily Corti, born Herbersteins, married and had three sons with her, including Sebastian Corti Corti and Severin, food critic of the Vienna daily Der Standard. Claudia Vogeler, daughter from a previous relationship Cortis, lives and works as a film editor in Hamburg.
Axel Corti died on December 29, 1993 before the completion of filming of Radetzky March leukemia. ( Him of the Adolf Grimme Award for this film was awarded posthumously. ) His grave is in the cemetery of Arnsdorf in the community Lamprechtshausen near Salzburg.