Robert von Dassanowsky

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Robert von Dassanowsky

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(January 28, 1965 – October 10, 2023) was an Austrian-American academic, writer, film and cultural historian, and producer. He was usually known as Robert Dassanowsky.

Education, career and publications

Dassanowsky was born in New York City on January 28, 1965. A student of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a graduate of UCLA (MA, PhD), where he also served as Visiting Professor of German, Dassanowsky was a widely published academician, independent film producer, playwright, and had written for television. He held dual American and Austrian citizenship.

Dassanowsky was named CU Distinguished Professor of Film and Austrian Studies by the University of Colorado System in November 2020. He was professor of German and Visual and Performing Arts, and founding director of

Webster University Vienna and was an Affiliate Faculty of the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) New York since 2017 and member of the Board of Directors of the GCAS Research Institute Dublin since 2019.[2]

Dassanowsky was founding president of the Colorado chapter of

Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933–1938, was published by Indiana University Press in May 2018.[4]

He served on several editorial and advisory boards of literary publications in the U.S.,

University of New Orleans Press 2015) received its American staged dramatic reading premiere under the direction of Guy Ben-Aharon at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York in December 2016.[5]
He authored over ninety articles and essays in book collections, journals, and periodicals.

Producer and media appearances

The son of Austrian-American pioneering film studio founder and musician, Elfi von Dassanowsky, he was also active as an independent producer and head of the Colorado/Vienna based Belvedere Film production company. His Belvedere Film projects included the documentary on aesthete Felix Pfeifle Felix Austria! a.k.a. The Archduke and Herbert Hinkel (2013) directed by Christine Beebe (in which he also appears), the dramatic shorts Menschen (2012) and The Retreat (2010), the feature film Wilson Chance (2005), and the award-winning Semmelweis (2001). Felix Austria! premiered at the 2013 Hot Docs Festival.[6]

As an independent, he served as associate producer of Dog Eat Dog (2012) a comedy short with

Ruth Weiss, directed by Thomas Antonic: One More Step West is the Sea: Ruth Weiss (2021).[citation needed
]

Affiliations, awards and foundation work

Dassanowsky was a member of

Paneuropean Movement and he joined the board of advisors for the Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and the Arts in 2014 and the Board of the American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) in 2016.[11]

He was a member of the Academy of Austrian Film and a voting member of the

Vienna Independent Shorts
Film Festival in June 2010.

Dassanowsky's death was announced by the

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs on October 12, 2023, two days after his death from undisclosed causes at age 58.[14]

References

  1. ^ "In Her Own Image", Time Magazine. Accessed November 1, 2023.
  2. ^ GCAS Research Institute Dublin, gcasri.com. Accessed November 1, 2023.
  3. ^ AustrianInformation.org
  4. ^ Literaturhaus Vienna, literaturhaus.at. Accessed November 1, 2023. (in German)
  5. ^ ACFNY
  6. ^ Hot Docs Festival premiere, movieweb.com. Accessed November 1, 2023.
  7. ^ Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year-Colorado
  8. ^ Austrian President Honors Professor Archived December 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question about the Decoration of Honour" (PDF) (in German). p. 1665. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  10. ^ European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  11. ^ American Friends of DÖW
  12. ^ CU Thomas Jefferson Award
  13. ^ Austrian Information on EvD Foundation
  14. ^ In Memory: Robert von Dassanowsky, UCCS.edu. Retrieved October 14, 2023.

External links

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