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Michael Glawogger

Director, Writer, Actor, Editor, Additional Credits
Died April 23, 2014 (54 years)
Michael Glawogger (3 December 1959 – 23 April 2014) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

From 1981 to 1982, Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy. Like fellow Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, with whom he collaborated several times, he was mainly known for his documentary films, such as Megacities (1998), Workingman's Death (2005) and Whores' Glory (2011). In 2008 he was a member of the jury at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.

In 2013, Glawogger contributed one chapter to "Cathedrals of Culture", a 3-D film on architecture produced by Wim Wenders.

Four days after incorrectly being diagnosed with typhus, he died from malaria on 22 April 2014 shortly before midnight in Monrovia, Liberia during a movie production. In February 2015, a book of stories entitled 69 Hotelzimmer was released. The stories used hotel rooms Glawogger had visited (or in some cases only heard about in passing) as a departure for stories that reflect the visual richness for which his films are celebrated.
Known For
  • Whores' Glory
  • Workingman's Death
  • Contact High
  • Slugs
  • Megacities
  • Slumming
  • Untitled
  • Kill Daddy Good Night
  • Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX)
  • Hotel Rock'n'Roll
  • Cathedrals of Culture
  • The Whore's Son
  • Losses to Be Expected
  • Ant Street
  • France, Here We Come!
  • State of the Nation: Austria in Six Chapters
  • About Water: People and Yellow Cans
  • The Mozart Minute

Filmography

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