Fritz Walden

Fritz Walden, real name Friedrich Drobilitsch, also Fritz Drobilitsch-Walden and Franz Drobilitsch, (3 January 1914 – 12 September 1992) was an Austrian publicist, author and cultural editor as well as film, literature, music and theatre critic.

Life

In the 70s a cinema hall was built in the Vienna Urania where Walden presented his film analysis lessons at the Film Academy, where films from all periods were viewed and discussed every Saturday morning.

Born in Vienna, Walden studied several semesters German studies. Since the 1950s, he was cultural editor of the Viennese Arbeiter-Zeitung. He actively participated in cultural events, and in 1964 he was a founding member of the Vereins der Wiener Filmfestwochen, which took over the organization of the Vienna Film Festival Viennale, as it was now called, alongside Edwin Zbonek. He taught film analysis at the Vienna Film Academy in the 1970s and 80s, was asked to serve as a juror at international film festivals such as the Berlinale and in the 1980s was a member of the jury of the Film Advisory Board of the Austrian Film Fund of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research He was also a patron and mentor of young Viennese filmmakers, whom he sometimes supported materially. Through the first font insert in the opening credits of the film Mansur Madavi [de] dedicated his film Notausgang to him out of gratitude.

Walden belonged to a generation of critics who made no secret of their passion for films, Theaterstücke oder Opern which were and are often reviewed in other media by colleagues from other countries. or in diplomacy thesis.

Walden also appeared in films and wrote poetry for contemporary music.

Walden died in Vienna at the age of 78.

Publications

As fiction critic
Other publications

Further reading

As publicist
As film critic and film patron
As literary and theatre critic
As music critic

References

  1. ↑ Berlinale 1972
  2. ↑ Kunstbericht 1984 (PDF; 2,2 MB) of the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts
  3. ↑ Archive Austria, Fritz Walden 1980 à propos Exit-Nur keine Panik
  4. ↑ Küchengespräche mit Rebellinen 1980 Review on the site of the filmmaker Karin Berger
  5. ↑ Arbeiterzeitung Cultural Forum of 4 November 1970
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel über eine Reprise zu Karl Valentin retrieved 22 August 2020
  7. ↑ Kolik Andreas Ungerböck in Zeitschrift für Literatur
  8. ↑ Diploma thesis about Helmut Qualtinger of the University of Vienna by Sabine Krängler 2006
  9. ↑ Fritz Walden at IMDb
  10. ↑ Als wäre es nie gewesen. Anatomie eines Verrates. Roman. on WorldCat
  11. ↑ Im Kino erlebe ich die Welt. 100 Jahre Kino und Film in Österreich. on WorldCat
  12. ↑ Mechanismen der Literaturrezeption in Österreich am Beispiel Oedön von Horváths on Worldcat