Michael Haneke

Austrian film director and screenwriter (born 1942)

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Michael Haneke is an Austrian author and filmmaker who began his professional career in 1974. He has also used the pseudonym Richard Binder. His published works include *Die Drehbücher*, *Éthique du mikado*, *The piano teacher*, *Der siebente Kontinent*, and *Haneke über Haneke*.

Born in 1942, Haneke has been active in the arts sector, with a recorded presence in music databases identifying him as a group from Switzerland. His bibliography comprises eleven works, while other sources cite varying counts of his contributions, ranging from three to five. He is referenced by 770 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1942
Works: 11

Top works

Die Drehbücher
Éthique du mikado
The piano teacher
Der siebente Kontinent
Haneke über Haneke

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Country: CH
Active from: 2018-03-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 678
Total plays: 1,857

via Last.fm · Michael Haneke

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 88,341x
Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,765x
Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,794x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,472x
Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,502x

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Quotes

“I know very well the sorts of pressures you're under in television. I don't work in television anymore myself, but I'm constantly hearing from colleagues who present scripts to networks and are told, "The script is too complex. You have to keep it simple because the audience is dumb. You can make more money for the advertisers that way."”
“Film is an artificial construct. It pretends to reconstruct reality. But it doesn't do that—it's a manipulative form. It's a lie that can reveal the truth. But if a film isn't a work of art, it's just complicit with the process of manipulation.”
“All of my films constitute a reaction against mainstream cinema. Every serious form of art sees the receiver as a partner in the undertaking. In fact, that's one of the preconditions of humanistic thought. In cinema, this fact, which should be self-evident, has been overlooked and replaced by an emphasis on the commercial aspects of the medium.”
“Today's conventional cinema, or mass cinema, doesn't take the receiver seriously as a partner. It sees the audience member as a bank machine, whose only function is to spit out money.”
“My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.”
“Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable. Propaganda is far more pornographic than a home video of two people fucking.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Michael
Gender: male
Citizenship: Austria
Place of birth: Munich
Occupation: director
Educated at: University of Vienna
Employer: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Languages spoken: German
Image: Michael Haneke 2009.jpg

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related category: Category:Films directed by Michael Haneke
name in native language: Michael Haneke
Commons category: Michael Haneke
date of birth: 1942-03-23
member of: Academy of Arts, Berlin
nominated for: European Film Award for Best Film
start of work period: 1974-00-00
has works in the collection: Museum of Modern Art
floruit: 2018-01-01
pseudonym: Richard Binder
P12674: flag of Nigeria

Sources (11)

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Works in European collections

3 objects attributed to Michael Haneke, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Michael Haneke ( German: [ˈhaːnəkə]; born 23 March 1942) is a German-born Austrian film director and screenwriter. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Haneke has made films in French, German, and English and has worked in television and theatre. He also teaches film direction at the Film Academy Vienna.

Haneke's first films were a trilogy, consisting of The Seventh Continent (1989), Benny's Video (1992), and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994), each of which depict a "coldly bureaucratic society in which genuine human relationships have been supplanted by a deep-seated collective malaise" and explore "the relationship among consumerism, violence, mass media, and contemporary alienation". He went on to win the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix for The Piano Teacher (2001) as well as its Palme d'Or twice, for The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012), the latter of which received five Academy Award nominations and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also directed Funny Games (1997) and its 2007 remake, Code Unknown (2000), Time of the Wolf (2003), Caché (2005), and Happy End (2017).

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Michael Haneke