!!!Frankfurter, Bernhard

Frankfurter, Bernhard, b. Graz (Styria), Jan. 11, 1946, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 2, 1999, director, author. While a 
university student in Graz, founded the student movement 
"Aktion" with G.  Sperl in 1966; from 1970 editor of the 
newly established news magazine "profil"; from 1972 employed 
by the Austrian broadcasting corporation ORF. 1974-1985 numerous 
low-budget film productions, focussing particularly on exile research 
and the expulsion of Austrians between 1938 and 1945; until 1983 
president of the Verband der oesterreichischen Filmregisseure 
(Association of Austrian Film Directors). In the 1990s worked mainly 
as a journalist and dramatist. His last project, 
"Guertelbuch", a book about life along the Vienna Guertel, 
remained unfinished.

!Works
Films: On the Road to Hollywood, 1982; Liebe das Leben - lebe 
den Tod, 1989. - __Publications:__ Am Beispiel 33/38, 1973; Die Begegnung, 
1995 (ed.); Im Spiegelkabinett des Dr. Caligari, 1997.


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