Herbert Brödl
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Herbert Brödl, born in St. Pölten, Austria, in 1949, visited the
Max-Reinhardt-Seminar from 1968 to 1969 and studied Philosophy at the
University of Vienna from 1969 to 1973. In 1971 and 1972 he made his
first films for ORF, the Austrian broadcasting company. In 1974 Brödl
moved to Hamburg and wrote screenplays that were made into films by
Peter Lilienthal, Rainer Boldt and Volker Vogeler. His books have been
published by S. Fischer Verlag and Suhrkamp Verlag. From 1976 he has
written and directed films in Peru, Italy, South Africa, Vanuatu,
Benin, Zimbabwe and São Tomé e Príncipe, plus eight in Brazil. His
films inhabit the border region between genres, documentary and
fictional, fact and fantasy, with found and invented elements and both
amateur and professional actors. In 1982 he founded Baumhaus Film Brödl
in Hamburg, which produced his films until 2002. From 1993 to 2007 he
worked on an equator cycle of six films with locations and stories in
equatorial regions.
