Julius Bürger - Exiled and Rediscovered. A Viennese Composer Returns Home

Documentation: Julius Bürger - Exiled and Rediscovered. A Viennese Composer Returns Home.
The documentary provides an insight into the life and work of the Jewish Viennese composer Julius Bürger, who was forced to leave Europe in 1938. He was able to gain an international success in the USA, where he received the composition prize from the University of Indiana for his “Variations on a Theme by C. Ph. E. Bach” in 1984, 39 years after he composed this work. The film documentary was made in connection with the first performance of Julius Bürger's orchestral works in Vienna, in August 2023 in the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Hall with the Viennese Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Gottfried Rabl.
Director
Stephan Herzog
Cinematography and colour design
Benjamin Pieber
Original sound and mixing
Cristi lorga
Assistant editor
Petra Kriechenbauer
Caroline Weber
Archive
Katharina Reischl
Translation
Katharina J. Waltl
Many thanks to
Anna Litvinenko
Matija Meić
Angelika Möser
Ronald Pohl
Gottfried Rabl
Ryan Hugh Ross
A production of Herzog Media
On behalf of Exilarte