Axel Corti

Axel Corti (7 May 1933, Paris — 29 December 1993, Oberndorf, Salzburg, Austria (buried at Friedhof Arnsdorf, Lamprechtshausen)) was an Austrian writer and director.

Life

He was born in Paris. Father was Austrian and Italian descent, and mother was from Berlin.

Axel Corti worked at the Austrian Television from 1953 onwards. Beginning with the works on "Schalldämpfer", he made Austrian radio history. Later he became a professor at Austrian academy of film (in 1972).

Axel Corti was the father of three sons, one of them is Sebastian Corti.

Work

• "Kaiser Joseph und die Bahnwärterstochter", 1963 (with Hans Holt, Hans Moser and Inge Konradi)
• "Ein junger Mann aus dem Innviertel", 1973
• "Totstellen", 1975
• "An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr", 1982
• "Herrenjahre", 1983 (with Lore Krainer and Peter Simonischek)
• "Eine blaßblaue Frauenschrift", 1984 (with Friedrich von Thun, Gabriel Barylli, Otto Schenk, Konstanze Breitebner und Kurt Sowinetz)
• "Wohin und zurück - Welcome in Vienna", 1987 List of Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• "The King's Whore", 1990, with Timothy Dalton
• "Radetzkymarsch", 1994 (with Max von Sydow, Charlotte Rampling, Julia Stemberger, Karlheinz Hackl, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, Fritz Muliar, Alexander Strobele, Franz Tscherne, Gert Voss and Friedrich von Thun)

External links

• Axel Corti at the Internet Movie Database