Veit Heiduschka

Veit Heiduschka ( born May 20, 1938 in chub ) is an Austrian film producer and the founder and director of the Wega Film. In this role, he already realized several dozen productions, often in collaboration with other film production companies, for cinema and television. Veit Heiduschka is a producer of most of the films of director Michael Haneke.

Life

Heiduschka grew up in the GDR. Since his father was a political prisoner, he could not take a secondary school; then he closed an apprenticeship as a retail merchant. In 1956 he fled to the Federal Republic, completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk and went in 1959 to Vienna, where he intended initially to be a freelance writer.

From 1961 he took as Externe after the high school and studied from 1964 at the University of Vienna German philology and dramatics; in addition he worked for some time with philosophy and psychology. In 1969 he received a doctorate in phil.

From 1966 he worked in parallel to study the theater and learned in his own words, " everything from scratch - from lighting to assistant director, stage manager, and so on ." A season, he worked at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth.

After that was Veit Heiduschka ten years production manager and director at various film companies. In 1980 he founded the film production company Vega of which he is to this day. Besides, he also realized several films as a screenwriter and director.

Veit Heiduschka is also President of the Austrian Film Commission (AFC ), Managing Director of the collecting society for audiovisual media (VAM ), President of the Producers Association Film Austria, chairman of the Motion Picture and Television Film Production in Association of the film and music industry ( FAFO ). In addition, he was a lecturer at the Vienna Film Academy and is a member of the European Film Academy.

Filmography

Below is a selection of films that were produced by Veit Heiduschka:

• Love ( OP / FRA / D in 2012, Michael Haneke )
• Kuma (Ö 2012 Umut Dag )
• The winemaker war (D / E 2011)
• The White Ribbon - A German children's story (D / E / FRA / IT 2009, Michael Haneke )
• King Otto (O / D 2006 TV movie, directed by Zoltan Spirandelli )
• My killer (Ö 2005 TV movie, Elisabeth Scharang )
• Caché (O / FRA 2005, Michael Haneke )
• The Geierwally (D / E 2005, Peter Sower )
• Welcome Home (Ö 2004, Andreas Gruber )
• Mélyen örzött titkok / track search (O / HUN / FIN 2004, Zsuzsa Böszörményi )
• Time of the Wolf ( E / FRA / D in 2003, Michael Haneke )
• Everyone's hard (O / FRA / D in 2002, Fritz Lehner )
• Let's get (Ö 2001, Peter Patzak )
• The Piano Teacher (O / FRA 2001, Michael Haneke )
• Balkan baroque ( FRA / E 2000, Pierre Coulibeuf )
• Hunters in the Snow (Austria 2000, Michael Kreihsl )
• The three train robbers (Ö 1998, Andreas Prochaska )
• Fun without borders (Ö 1998 short film, Ulrich Seidl )
• The Castle (Ö 1997 TV movie, Michael Haneke )
• Funny Games (Austria 1997, Michael Haneke )
• Charms incidents (Ö 1996 Michael Kreihsl )
• Mutters Courage ( E / GB / D / IRL 1995, Michael Verhoeven )
• The head of the Moor (Ö 1995, Paulus Manker )
• It was to be love? (Ö 1995, Wolfgang Glück )
• Exit II - Transfigured Night (Ö 1995, Franz Novotny )
• Black Days (Ö 1995 TV movie, Nicholas Leytner )
• 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (O / D 1994, Michael Haneke )
• Children of the Open Road ( O / D / CH 1994, Urs Egger )
• Chacun pour toi ( FRA / E 1994, Jean -Michel Ribes )
• The case Lucona (D / E 1993, Jack Gold )
• Benny 's Video (O / CH 1992, Michael Haneke )
• True Love (O / D 1992 Kitty Kino )
• Oh, Boris ... ( east 1990, Niki List )
• The Seventh Continent (Austria, 1989, Michael Haneke )
• Mueller's office (Ö 1986, Niki List )
• Dawn (Ö 1985 TV movie, Peter Sower )
• Contemporaries (Ö 1983, Ernst Josef eavesdropper )
• PARADISE Ges.m.b.H. (Ö 1983, Nicholas Leytner )