Herbert Holba

Herbert Holba ( born May 7, 1932 in Vienna, † October 26, 1994 ) was an Austrian filmmaker, film critic, film historian and director for film, television and radio.

Life

Self-taught himself Holba busy with the film and all its aspects since his early youth. In 1945 he gained movie photos and movie stills, movie program books, movie posters, videos, documents and all kinds of other articles and materials on the subject of film. This collection he brought in 1965 with Peter Spiegel in which they founded Centre for Film Documentation " ACTION" in Vienna's Augarten A, which soon became the largest private collection on the subject of film in Austria. This film documentation center was established in 2001 the Austrian Film Archive affiliated. In 1965 Holba under the name ACTION also a film club and Austria's first alternative cinema in Vienna - Wieden. Also a film magazine with the same title was published from 1965 to 1969 from him.

In 1962, he wrote with Helmut Blobner 1000 years of film history - the political propaganda film as part of a series of publications of the Vienna Youth Film Clubs. In the 1960s and the early 1970s was Holba screenwriter and director on several short and television films and a feature film. These productions were mostly together with Ernst A. Ekker, Peter Meisel and Martin Radinger. The cinema feature film The first few days had the particularity to have been conceived as a silent film, although it was based on a radio play. The film was also shown in competition at the International Film Festival of Berlin in 1971.

1972 and 1973 Holba worked in the editorial of the film Ethnography books that were published by the German Institute of Film Studies (DIF ) in Wiesbaden. At this time, in 1972, his film studies work began with the book Documentation Illustrated Film-Kurier from 1924 to 1944, which includes 3518 movie program books. Some of his books have been published and self-published his film documentation center, the " Publisher of the Documentation Centre Action ".

Between 1970 and 1974 yielded Holba contributions to the publication series of the International Film Festival of Berlin from: " Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ", " Eddie Cantor ", " Ludwig Berger ", " Lilian Harvey " and more.

Between 1976 and 1979 he was the initiator and curator of the Viennale retrospectives about Werner Hochbaum, Erich Engel, Emil Jannings and the " fantastic German film". From 1976 programmed Holba the ACTION - cinema " Neubauer ", " Admiral " and " Rechbauerkino " in Graz.

In the years 1978 to 1980 Herbert Holba was to see and understand films as the author of OE1 radio broadcasts and film history in sequels, published annually by the 37 programs, active. At this time he was also editor of the Ulmer film history journal F ( = Film Journal ).

In 1984 he issued Reclams German film lexicon. From 1985 to 1987 he was in film history consultant and co-author for the 21 -part television documentary series The ORF were times over German -language talkies hit 1930-1960 in the form of compilation films and film essays.

Works

  • Herbert Holba, Helmut Blobner: OW Fischer: phenomenon of a histrionic personality. Vienna, Stuttgart, Basel 1964
  • Herbert Holba: Illustrated Film-Kurier: 1924 - 1944 German Institute of Film Studies, Wiesbaden 1972.
  • Herbert Holba: Catalog of magazines movie theater, cinema programs. Publisher of the Documentation Centre Action, Vienna 1976
  • Herbert Holba with Manfred Lichtenstein and Guenter Schulz: Film Programs in East Germany: 1945 - 1975 Publisher of the Documentation Centre Action, Vienna 1976.
  • Herbert Holba, Helmut Dan, Peter Spiegel (eds): Werner Hochbaum: Movies 1929-1939 Retrospective of the Viennale, publisher of the Documentation Centre Action, Vienna 1976.
  • Herbert Holba, Helmut Dan, Günter Knorr: Erich Engel: Movies 1923 - 1940 retrospective of Viennale, publisher of the Documentation Centre Action, Vienna 1977.
  • Herbert Holba, Peter Spiegel, Günter Knorr: Gustaf: Movies. Publisher of the Documentation Centre Action, Vienna 1978
  • Herbert Holba: Catalog of magazines movie theater, cinema programs. Publisher of the Documentation Centre Action, Vienna 1978
  • Herbert Holba, Peter Spiegel, Günter Knorr: Reclams German film lexicon - film artists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-15-010330-4
  • Herbert Holba (ed. ): Catalogue funded Austrian films. Publisher of the Documentation Centre Action, Vienna 1985
  • Arthur Maria Rabenalt Herbert Holba (ed.): Joseph Goebbels and the " big German " movie. Herbig Verlag, Munich 1985

Radio plays of Herbert Holba, created for the ORF:

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