Talks with Women Film Pioneers:
Lotte Klimitschek
May 7, 2025
This is a series of talks about the lives and work of women film pioneers from all branches of the industry who have left their mark on Austrian film, but due to the lack of an ongoing canonization need to be discovered again and again. Their conversation partners are filmmakers from the next generation or the generation after.
Editor Lotte Klimitschek
Lotte Klimitschek moved to Vienna in 1955 and studied at the Film Academy Vienna in classes taught by Walter Kolm-Veltée, son of woman film pioneer Louise Kolm-Fleck. After her wish to be a director was crushed by the judgement that it was not a "woman's profession," she began working as a freelance editor on films such as A Walk with Love and Death (1969), which John Huston shot outside Vienna, and Axel Corti's Totstellen (1975). Alongside international theatrical films, she also edited TV movies, including Land, das meine Sprache spricht (Michael Kehlmann, 1980) and Wer war Edgar Allen (Michael Haneke, 1984). In 1978, Klimitschek became a founding member of the Austrian Editors Association. (Julia Pühringer / Translation: Ted Fendt)
After the screening of the film Moos auf den Steinen (1968, Georg Lhotzky), Niki Mossböck and Julia Pühringer will talk with Lotte Klimitschek.
This is a series of talks about the lives and work of women film pioneers from all branches of the industry who have left their mark on Austrian film, but due to the lack of an ongoing canonization need to be discovered again and again. Their conversation partners are filmmakers from the next generation or the generation after.
Editor Lotte Klimitschek
Lotte Klimitschek moved to Vienna in 1955 and studied at the Film Academy Vienna in classes taught by Walter Kolm-Veltée, son of woman film pioneer Louise Kolm-Fleck. After her wish to be a director was crushed by the judgement that it was not a "woman's profession," she began working as a freelance editor on films such as A Walk with Love and Death (1969), which John Huston shot outside Vienna, and Axel Corti's Totstellen (1975). Alongside international theatrical films, she also edited TV movies, including Land, das meine Sprache spricht (Michael Kehlmann, 1980) and Wer war Edgar Allen (Michael Haneke, 1984). In 1978, Klimitschek became a founding member of the Austrian Editors Association. (Julia Pühringer / Translation: Ted Fendt)
After the screening of the film Moos auf den Steinen (1968, Georg Lhotzky), Niki Mossböck and Julia Pühringer will talk with Lotte Klimitschek.
Idea: Julia Pühringer. Concept and realization: Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg and Julia Pühringer in collaboration with FC GLORIA – Feminismus Vernetzung Film, and Drehbuchforum Vienna
We would like to thank the Department for Women's and Gender Equality Policy of the Vienna Chamber of Labor for supporting this series.
For each series, films are listed in screening order.
