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  Elfi von Dassanowsky - Biography - Moviefone
At age 15, the youngest female of her time to gain admission to Vienna's renowned Academy of Music, Elfi von Dassanowsky was soon recruited by director Karl Hartl to instruct Curd Jurgens in piano for his performance in the 1942 Mozart film, Wen die Götter Lieben.
Von Dassanowsky's career as opera singer and pianist was halted when she refused to join Nazi organizations, and in 1944 she declined a star film contract from UFA Studiosin Berlin.
Von Dassanowsky also attempted to bring stage actorOskar Werner to the screen before his debut in Karl Hartl's Der Engel Mit der Posaune (1948).
movies.aol.com /celebrity/elfi-von-dassanowsky/236380/biography   (277 words)

  
 Elfi von Dassanowsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elfi von Dassanowsky (born February 2, 1924) is an Austrian singer, pianist and film producer.
She remains one of the few women in film history, and at age 22 one of the youngest, to co-found a film studio -- Belvedere Film -- the first new studio facility in postwar Vienna.
In Hollywood in the 1960s, she resisted becoming a trendy Euro-starlet and preferred to remain behind the camera as a vocal coach for director/producer Otto Preminger.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elfi_von_Dassanowsky   (458 words)

  
 CSIndy: Personal Space (January 6, 2005)
Von Dassanowsky, who works at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, won recognition as the state's top professor of 2004 from the Stanford, Calif.-based educational nonprofit Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for his innovative student programs.
Von Dassanowsky speaks at a rapid clip and bristles with energy.
His mother, Elfi von Dassanowsky, was an opera singer and cinema legend in her native Austria.
www.csindy.com /csindy/2005-01-06/personalspace.html   (296 words)

  
 WIC Biography - Elfi von Dassanowsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Born in Vienna, Austria, Elfi was at age 15, the youngest woman admitted to Vienna's famed Academy of Music.
Elfi subsequently achieved recognition as star vocal coach for Otto Preminger in the1960s and later became a successful Los Angeles businesswoman.
Elfi has been honored by the cities of Los Angeles and Vienna, as well as by the State of California which declared February 2, 1996, "Elfi von Dassanowsky Day." She is the recipient of the Austrian Film Archive Lifetime Achievement Medal and the UNESCO Mozart Medal for her promotion of peace through the art.
www.wic.org /bio/edassano.htm   (482 words)

  
 Elfi von Dassanowsky >> German-Hollywood Connection
In 1996 the state of California honored her with an “Elfi von Dassanowsky Day” on February 2 (her birthday), adding to a long list of honors bestowed upon this versatile lady from Vienna, now residing in southern California.
Elfi von Dassanowsky was interviewed by Hyde Flippo for the German-Hollywood Connection.
von Dassanowsky: I was unprepared for this film about postwar Vienna with the occupation forces, the bombed out houses, the fl-market, the actress (Valli) who portrays the Austria of Mozart on the stage, and then finds herself in the rubble of the reality.
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 Märchen vom Glück
The studio was headed by August Diglas and producers Emmerich Hanus—famed silent-film director and brother of Heinz Hanus, one of Austria's film pioneers—and Elfi von Dassanowsky.
It is Von Dassanowsky, the second female film producer and studio administrator in Austrian cinema history, who has brought Belvedere's important but nearly forgotten history and legacy back to the cinematic canon in recent years.
Von Dassanowsky maintains that the film was actually directed by Emmerich Hanus and August Diglas under the "de Glahs" pseudonym.
www.filmreference.com /Films-Ma-Me/M-rchen-vom-Gl-ck.html   (1254 words)

  
 December 10, 1999
Robert von Dassanowsky, Associate Professor, Director of Film Studies and Head of the German Program in the Dept. of Languages and Cultures at CU-Colorado Springs, is involved with three major publications that span his work in culture, film and as an internationally published poet.
Von Dassanowsky was the founding President of the Colorado chapter of the international writers organization P.E.N. (1994-1999) and a founding editor of Los Angeles' award-winning arts and literature journal, ROHWEDDER.
Von Dassanowsky, who has written on aspects of German, Austrian, British and American film, is also the founder and Vice President of the Austrian American Film Association (AAFA), located on the web at http://web.uccs.edu/vapa/aafa/aafa.htm.
web.uccs.edu /ur/pr/pr_12_10_1999.htm   (525 words)

  
 Elfi von Dassanowsky 2 >> German-Hollywood Connection
von Dassanowsky: I was asked by a representative of the British press to give what was essentially a one-woman-show, a musical evening of opera and operetta, for the Allied High Command.
von Dassanowsky: I was a student at the Hochschule, prior to my labor service, and Karl Hartl was preparing to film Wen die Götter lieben, a film on Mozart, which he later remade in the 1950s.
von Dassanowsky: It is strange but true—as a woman, I could not do in Hollywood in the 1960s what I did in postwar Austria and Germany.
www.germanhollywood.com /dass2.html   (1978 words)

  
 Elfi von Dassanowsky - Wikipedia
Februar 1924 in Wien, auch Elfi Dassanowsky, eigentlich Elfriede Maria Elisabeth Charlotte von Dassanowsky) ist österreichische Sängerin, Pianistin und Filmproduzentin.
Sie erhält eine Gesangsausbildung von Paula Mark-Neusser und erlernt das Schauspiel von Eduard Volters und Wilhelm Heim.
Dennoch erhielt sie 1944 ein Angebot für eine Filmrolle von der UFA Berlin, welches sie jedoch ablehnte.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elfi_von_Dassanowsky   (590 words)

  
 Austrian Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Elfi von Dassanowsky will receive its "Living Legacy Award" for 2000.
This prestigious award, created by American philanthropist and WIC founder D. Gloria Lane in 1984, is awarded annually to women who have contributed extraordinarily to their field and to the betterment of humanity.
Dassanowsky, who lives in Los Angeles and is considered a leading female figure in postwar Austrian and international culture, will be the first Austrian woman to be honored with this award.
www.austria.org /oldsite/sep99/elfi.html   (136 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts:Performing Arts:Acting:Actors and Actresses:V
Elfi von Dassanowsky - actress and movie producer, born 2 February 1924, Vienna, Austria.
After WWII she was instrumental in the rebirth of German-language film, and is today regarded as a female cinema pioneer.
Max von Sydow - actor, born 10 April 1929, Lund, Skåne, Sweden.
dmoz.org /Arts/Performing_Arts/Acting/Actors_and_Actresses/V/desc.html   (1064 words)

  
 Austrian Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Professor Elfi von Dassanowsky, one of Austria's important postwar arts figures and now a Los Angeles based film producer, has been named a "Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres," one of France's highest honors.
Professor Dassanowsky received the prestigious decoration from French Cultural Attaché Laurent Deveze at a ceremony at the French residence in Beverly Hills on October 5.
Guests included Austrian Consul General in Los Angeles, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal and Professor Dassanowsky's son, Vice President of the Austrian American Film Association, Dr. Robert Dassanowsky.
www.austria.org /nov01/elfi.html   (116 words)

  
 Elfi von Dassanowsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 Robert von Dassanowsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles and Europe, Robert von Dassanowsky...
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 Sloan Science Cinémathèque
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Robert von Dassanowsky, Elfi von Dassanowsky, executive producers.
Jim Berry had never heard of the 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis until he learned of the Sloan Foundation's offer of grants for scripts featuring positive depictions of scientists.
www.movingimage.us /science/html/index.php?film_id=23   (458 words)

  
 AFFP Members
Robert von Dassanowsky is Co-President of Belvedere Film, the U.S./Austrian production company
Chance." Von Dassanowsky is founding Vice President of AAFA-Austrian American Film
Additionally, von Dassanowsky has written for the stage and television, is a widely published film
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 Austria - Austrian Culture - Living in Austria - The German Way
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Elfi von Dassanowsky - An interview with an Austrian film pioneer now living in Hollywood.
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