Axel Corti
| Axel Corti | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Axel Fuhrmanns 7 May 1933 Paris, France |
| Died | 29 December 1993 (aged 60) Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria |
| Resting place | Arnsdorf cemetery, Lamprechtshausen |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1963-1994 |
Axel Corti (born Axel Fuhrmanns, 7 May 1933 — 29 December 1993) was an Austrian screenwriter, film director and radio host.
He was born in Paris. His father was a businessman of Austrian and Italian descent, his mother was from Berlin. From German-occupied France, he and his mother were brought to safety in Switzerland by his father, a member of the Resistance who died in 1945. After World War II, he moved to Italy, where he took on the surname Corti, and finally began to study German and Romance philology at the University of Innsbruck.
Corti worked at public Radio Innsbruck from 1953 onwards, from 1956 to 1960 as head of the literature and radio drama department of the Tyrolean ORF regional radio. He then turned to a career as an assistant director at the Vienna Burgtheater and worked as a director at Theater Oberhausen and Theater Ulm as well as with Peter Brook in London. Called up to return to public broadcasting upon a major restructuring of the ORF radio programmes, he made Austrian radio history with the conception of his weekly Der Schalldämpfer broadcasts, which he presented as radio host for more than 24 years from 1969 until 1993. Initially aired by the ORF Ö3 entertainment radio station, Corti's commentaries in a feuilleton style and his sounding voice stood out of a mainly light music programme. The last Schalldämpfer was broadcast three days before his death, featuring the life and work of Rabbi Hillel the Elder.
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