Claus Homschak
Ramsau Am Dachstein - A Film By Claus Homschak & Elfriede Jelinek
About the film:
Between 1975 and 1977, the national broadcaster ORF produced ten portraits of different Austrian regions, commissioned from promising authors and filmmakers. Elfriede Jelinek, a declared filmmaker, wrote her first screenplay with Ramsau am Dachstein.
The film, directed by Claus Homschak, takes an unflinching look at rural and peasant life in Styria. Jelinek's text, which is partly spoken on screen by the author herself, deconstructs piece by piece those myths of the natural that form the basis of the tourism industry's success. The call to restore history to things and circumstances is immediately implemented by Jelinek herself in her interview with Josefa, the former ball boy.
RAMSAU AM DACHSTEIN, 1979, 60 min. RAMSAU AM DACHSTEIN Book and film to download
Director: Claus Homschak
Screenplay & Presentation: Elfriede Jelinek
96 pages, bilingual English/German
Subtitles:
dOF / Original version
OmdU / Original version with German subtitles
OmeU / Original version with English subtitles
Contributors: Elfriede Jelinek, Silvia Heimader, Sylvia Szely