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Gerhard Gruber (born 6 May 1951 in 
* 3rd Students Film Festival of India, Pune 2015
* National Film Center Tokyo 2014
* Auckland University of Technology 2013
* State Cinema Hobart 100th anniversary 2013
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Gerhard Gruber (born 6 May 1951 in Aigen im Mühlkreis
Aigen im Mühlkreis is a town and a former municipality in Rohrbach District in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. On 1 May 2015 Aigen im Mühlkreis municipality was merged with Schlägl to form Aigen-Schlägl municipality.
As of 1 January 201 ...
) is an Austrian composer and piano player. As accompanist for silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
s, he has become the leading authority in Austria since 1988.
He has performed for about 600 different films (Istanbul 2018, Paris, Krasnoyarsk /Siberia, Mexico, Kiew, Odessa 2017, Los Angeles 2012, Mumbai-Pune 2012, Washington-Los Angeles 2011, Delhi-Pune-Goa/India 2011, Tokyo 2006/2007/2008, Hobart/Australia 2007–09, Rotorua/New Zealand 2008/2010, Padova, Motovun Film Festival 2007, Cineconcerts Bordeaux 2005, Filmfestival Pisek/CZ 2008/2011, Filmfestival Uherske Hradiste 2009/2011, Viennale 1999-2004/2012, Munich, Hamburg, Diagonale).
He composed the music for '' Café Elektric''.
From 1983 until 2011 Gerhard Gruber was working and performing as a composer and musician for theatre.
He was featured in Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger (1 November 1921 – 11 November 2016) was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.
's ''Subtexte'' as "the one who first makes each film possible and, at the same time, unnecessary. Those who have seen his hands move on the illuminated keys might even risk forgetting Chaplin"Aichinger, Ilse (2006) ''Subtexte: Der Filmerzieher''. Wien: Edition Korrespondenzen.
Awards
Gruber was awarded theNestroy Theatre Prize
The Nestroy Theatre Prize is an Austrian theatre award named after the poet Johann Nestroy
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (; 7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the ...
in 2006 and the ''Bühnenkunstpreis des Landes Oberösterreich'' in 2008.
Performances for silent movies (out of 600)
* ''Broken Blossoms
''Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl'', often referred to simply as ''Broken Blossoms'', is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It was distributed by United Artists and premiered on May 13, 1919. It stars ...
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* ''Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (german: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent film, silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressio ...
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* '' Die freudlose Gasse''
* ''Die Sklavenkönigin
''The Moon of Israel'' (german: Die Sklavenkönigin, or "The Queen of the Slaves") is a 1924 Austrian epic film. It was directed by Mihaly Kertész (later Michael Curtiz). The script was written by Ladislaus Vajda, based on H. Rider Haggard's 1 ...
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* '' The White Hell of Pitz Palu''
* '' Café Elektric''
* ''Intolerance
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* Hypersensitivity
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* ''Metropolis
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A big c ...
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* ''Nanook of the North
''Nanook of the North'' is a 1922 American silent film which combines elements of documentary and docudrama, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist. In the tradition of what would later be c ...
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* ''Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (G ...
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* ''Pandora's Box
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Venues
* Toronto York University 2019 * Luxembourg 2019 *Beijing International Film Festival
The Beijing International Film Festival (Chinese: 北京国际电影节), abbreviated BJIFF, is a film festival in Beijing, China. Founded in 2011, the film festival is supported and sponsored by China Film Administration, China Media Group an ...
2019
* Bratislava 2019
* Istanbul 2018
* Beijing, Shanghai 2017
* Krasnoyarsk Siberia 2017
* Bratislava 2017
* Paris, Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé 2017
* Silent Film Festival Hobart 2017
* Ukraine Tour – Kiev, Odessa, Kharkiv 2016
* Mexico City, Querétaro 2016
* Filmoteca Valencia 2016
* Boston Jewish Film Festival 2016
* 3rd Students Film Festival of India, Pune 2015
* National Film Center Tokyo 2014
* Auckland University of Technology 2013
* State Cinema Hobart 100th anniversary 2013
* Lenin (nuclear icebreaker)
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– Film music recordings 2013
* Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival 2012
* Los Angeles American Cinematheque/ Aero Theatre 2012
* Pune-Mumbai/ 2nd India Silent Movie Tour 2012
* Washington-Los Angeles/ USA Silent Movie Tour 2011
* Delhi-Pune-Goa/ India Silent Movie Tour 2011
* Silence! Silent Movie Festival Rotorua, Neuseeland 2008
* Motovun Film Festival
The Motovun Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 1999 and held in the small town of Motovun, Croatia. It usually takes place over five or six days in late July or early August.
Overview
Motovun Film Festival is entirely dedic ...
2007
* Jüdisches Filmfestival Wien 2007/2010
* Austria Japan Silent Film Duo Project, Tokyo
* State Cinema Hobart/ Australien 2007/2008/2010
* International Student Film Festival Písek 2008/2011
* Filmfestival Uherske Hradiste/CZ 2009/2011
* Silent Movie at ''Amici della musica di Padova'' 2008
* Cinéconcerts Bordeaux 2005
* Breitenseer Lichtspiele Wien
* Viennale
The Vienna International Film Festival, or Viennale, is a film festival taking place every October since 1960 in Vienna, Austria.
The average number of visitors is about 75,000. Traditional cinema venues are ''Gartenbaukino'', ''Urania'', ''Metro ...
* Metrokino / Filmarchiv Austria
The Filmarchiv Austria ("Austrian Film Archive") is an organisation for the discovery, reconstruction and preservation of Austrian film record material: films themselves, literature about film and cinema, or film-related periodicals. With over 260, ...
* Österreichisches Filmmuseum
* Munich Film Archive
The Munich Film Archive, in the Munich Stadtmuseum, is one of eight film museums in Germany. It has no showrooms and is limited to screening the films in a single cinema with 165 seats, as well as collecting, archiving, and restoring film copies. ...
* Diagonale
The Diagonale (Festival of Austrian Film) is a film festival that takes place every March in Graz, Austria.
The festival was initially held under the auspices of the Austrian Film Commission in Salzburg from 1993 to 1995 but moved to Graz in 19 ...
* Prater Filmfestival 2005/2006
Theatre works (selection)
* Das Nibelungenlied – Justus Neumann – 2010 * Die 39 Stufen – Schauspielhaus Salzburg – 2010/2011 * Hennir – Isabel Karajan – 2009 * Bettleroper – Projekttheater Vorarlberg – 2009 * How much, Schatzi? – Projekttheater Vorarlberg – 2006 * Automatenbüfett – Theater in der Josefstadt Wien – 2004 * Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind – Theater in der Josefstadt Wien – 2004 * Mann, Frau, Kind – Theater in der Josefstadt Wien – 2003 * Das Dschungelbuch – Theater der Jugend Wien – 2002 * Der Zerrissene – Volkstheater Wien – 1997 * Die letzten Tage der Menschheit – Donaufestival Krems – 1994 * Mir soll ins Herz gestochen werden – Theater Narrnkastl Wien – 1985 * Mozarella – Zwischen den Zeilen Theater Zürich – 1983References
External links
Official website
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