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Sebastian Brauneis | |
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 Sebastian Brauneis | |
| Born | Sebastian Carl Brauneis 1978 (age 47–48) Vienna, Austria |
| Occupations | Film director, screenwriter, producer, lecturer, DJ |
Sebastian Brauneis (born Sebastian Carl Brauneis, 1978, Vienna) is an Austrian film director, screenwriter, producer, lecturer, and DJ.
Life and education
[edit]Brauneis was born in Vienna in 1978. He studied film studies and medicine in Vienna.[1][2]
His father, Carl Brauneis, worked as a war correspondent and cameraman.[3] Brauneis has also long worked as a DJ in Vienna.[4][5]
Career
[edit]In 1999, Brauneis joined the independent Viennese television channel TIV, where he worked with Wolfgang Kopper on the programme Schwerpunkt Allgemeines.[6]
From 2002 onward, he directed more than forty episodes of the ORF programme Sendung ohne Namen.[7] He later collaborated with Christoph Grissemann and Dirk Stermann on Willkommen Österreich and also worked on formats including Demokratie. Die Show.[8][9]
In 2014, he directed the ORF/Superfilm satire Bösterreich, starring Nicholas Ofczarek and Robert Palfrader.[10]
His debut feature film, Zauberer, based on a story by Clemens J. Setz and co-written with Setz and Nicholas Ofczarek, premiered at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in Saarbrücken in 2018 and had its Austrian premiere at the Diagonale.[11][12] For the screenplay, Brauneis received the Thomas Pluch Screenplay Prize (Jury Special Award) in 2018.[13]
His later feature films include 3freunde2feinde (2020), 1 Verabredung im Herbst (2021), and Die Vermieterin (2023).[14][15][16] Die Vermieterin was discussed in the press in connection with Vienna’s housing crisis and Brauneis’ own experiences searching for an apartment.[17][18]
In late 2024, he began shooting AMS – Arbeit Muss Sein, a feature film about Austria’s Arbeitsmarktservice (AMS). The film premiered at the Diagonale in 2026.[19][20]
Brauneis has taught at the Max Reinhardt Seminar since 2014, where he has led courses in camera acting, and has also taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.[21][22][23]
In 2025, ORF FM4 journalist Christian Fuchs included Brauneis among a group of contemporary filmmakers he described as an "Austrian New Wave".[24]
Awards
[edit]- 2018 – Thomas Pluch Screenplay Prize – Jury Special Award for Zauberer[25]
Filmography
[edit]- 2005 – Sunshine Airlines (TV show)
- 2007 – Willkommen Österreich (TV show)
- 2008 – Cien w futrach (short film)
- 2012 – Sendung ohne Namen (TV show)
- 2012 – Willkommen Baku (TV show)
- 2014 – Bösterreich (TV series)
- 2014 – Liebes Tagebuch, … (TV show)
- 2018 – Zauberer (feature film)
- 2020 – 3freunde2feinde (feature film)
- 2021 – 1 Verabredung im Herbst (feature film)
- 2022 – Polizeiruf 110: Das Licht, das die Toten sehen (TV episode; screenplay)
- 2023 – Die Vermieterin (feature film)
- 2026 – AMS – Arbeit Muss Sein (feature film)
External links
[edit]- Sebastian Brauneis at IMDb
Media related to Sebastian Brauneis at Wikimedia Commons
References
[edit]- ↑ "Sebastian Brauneis". Diagonale. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sebastian Brauneis" (in German). eisenerZ*ART. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sebastian Brauneis" (in German). Der Rebhandl. 5 July 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Hemmungslos durch die Nacht mit S. Brauneis" (in German). Schikaneder. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sebastian Brauneis" (in German). Der Rebhandl. 5 July 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sebastian Brauneis" (in German). eisenerZ*ART. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sebastian Brauneis" (in German). Le Studio. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sebastian Brauneis". Diagonale. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sebastian Brauneis" (in German). Refreshing Films. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "'BÖsterreich' (AT): Eine Tour de Force durch Österreich mit Nicholas Ofczarek und Robert Palfrader" (in German). OTS. 19 November 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Zauberer". Österreichisches Filminstitut. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sebastian Brauneis" (in German). Refreshing Films. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Thomas Pluch Drehbuchpreise 2018". Diagonale. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Diagonale: Teile des Programms im ORF" (in German). ORF Steiermark. 20 March 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Interview mit Sebastian Brauneis" (in German). Cinema Austriaco. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Mietrecht, mir wird schlecht!" (in German). ORF FM4. 16 January 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Wohnungssuche in Wien: Der Bericht einer einjährigen Odyssee" (in German). Die Presse. 17 March 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "„Man muss alle gernhaben, gerade die Bösen"" (in German). Die Presse. 19 June 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Pizzera und Jaus in Konflikt mit Neonazis: ORF fördert neun neue Filmprojekte" (in German). Kurier. 15 October 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "AMS – Arbeit Muss Sein". Diagonale. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Not dissimulation is the actor's task but revelation". mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. 2 May 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Sebastian Brauneis". Elevate. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Brauneis, Sebastian Univ.-Lekt". University of Applied Arts Vienna. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Die New Wave des österreichischen Kinos" (in German). ORF FM4. 22 September 2025. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Thomas Pluch Drehbuchpreise 2018". Diagonale. Retrieved 3 April 2026.