Georg Lhotsky

Georg Lhotsky (also: Georg Lhotzky; born February 6, 1937, in Opava, Czechoslovakia) is an Austrian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.

Life and work

1944 had to flee to Austria, where he graduated in 1956 his play Lhotsky from Czechoslovakia. He was active in connection to it both as an actor and as a director at Several Austrian and German theaters, such as the Theater in der Josefstadt, the New Theatre at La Scala, the Deutsches Theater Berlin or the Municipal Theater of Münster. In 1965 he became a freelance increasingly from stage to television, where he worked in various formats. With his first feature film moss on the stones he was by an unusual camera work, with alternating black and white and color images in 1968 paved the way for new Austrian film. This is based on Gerhard Fritsch's novel of the same film is about two contrasting writers and their views on the post-war Austria and the fiancee of one who chooses the other. The film was invited to the Berlin International Film Festival in 1969 and sent the Austrian contribution for a nomination as " Best Foreign Language Film " at the Oscar ceremony in 1970, but not nominated.

Then Lhotsky was to make only films and documentaries as well as series episodes for television. In 1983 he founded together with Eva -Maria Stelljes the Lhotsky film and produced the TV series "Healing and Shamanism " and " mysticism of the West", as well as documentaries on the border areas of science and holistic healing topics.

Lhotsky was 1959-1974 married to actress and longtime director of the Viennese popular theater Emmy Werner. In 1997 he completed his second marriage to Eva -Maria Stelljes. He is a founding member and Master Trainer of the "Austrian Society for Group dynamics and group pedagogy " and has a training analysis by Freud.

Filmography

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As a director, producer and author: