Rudolf Nussgruber
Hans Rudolf Raimund Nussgruber ( born April 7, 1918 in Vienna, † July 26, 2001 ) was an Austrian film director in film and television.
Life and work
The son of industrialist Gottfried Nussgruber and his wife Leopoldine attended after high school, the Reinhardt Seminar his hometown as well as the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and the School of Graphic Arts and Research Institute.
Even during the Second World War he joined the film and began his career as an assistant director at the Prague film ( eg in 1944, the unfinished thriller Bright Shadow of the director Geza von Cziffra ). From the beginning of feature film production in the resurrected Austria Nussgruber was active as an assistant director, as well as again at the Cziffras page such as in belief in me ( 1946) and Queen of the Highway (1948 ). Later he also assisted other veterans like director Karl Hartl, Ernst Marischka, Rolf Thiele, Werner Jacobs and Rudolf Schündler.
During his time as an assistant mid 50s Rudolf Nussgruber received orders directing for the first time. The result was two fairly inconsequential entertainment productions: the farce of sunshine and clouds break and the comedy Love, snow and sunshine. Even his later cinema trips were not very productive, even if the Windjammer documentation Flying Clipper visually quite had its merits. His collaboration on the 1965 internationally produced antique and battle scenes Hermann, who Cherusker who found their way into the German cinemas only with considerable delay, remained anonymous.
Then worked Nussgruber exclusively for the German and Austrian television. He turned single productions - preferably ambitious TV games with time historical background as Carl Schurz, The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Friedrich III. , ... Died as Emperor, Claus Graf Stauffenberg, Emperor Charles last battle, The Pueblo Affair and General Oster - Traitor or Patriot? - As well as individual episodes from different series. The best known and most successful was the ORF - series Ringstraßenpalais in the 80s. Following this, the 70 -year-old withdrew into private life.
Nussgruber was married to actress Anita Gutwell.