David Schalko

David Schalko, author and director, was born in 1973. He got famous in Austria with the Sendung ohne Namen which established a completely new genre in TV. Numerous awarded programs within the Donnerstag Nacht of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation followed. As novelist he recently became a talking point with his book Weiße Nacht, against which Jörg Haiders adjutant Stefan Petzner filed a suit. The trial was watched internationally with great interest.

 

His most important works of fictional film include Aufschneider with Josef Hader, the mockumentary Das Wunder von Wien, in which Austria become the European football champions, the feature Wie man leben soll based on a novel by Thomas Glavinic and the mini-series Braunschlag, which was the most successful series of the last 20 years in Austria and was recently running at the Cologne Conference in the category "10 most important international works" among well-known HBO and BBC productions. In 2014 Schalko directed and wrote the miniersies Old Money with Udo Kier in the leading role.