Ip Wischin

Education

Moving to New York in 1981, he studied directing, producing and editing at the School of Visual Arts and later assisted Miloš Forman (known for movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoo"s Nest and Amadeus) at Columbia University.

Career

Wischin started filmmaking in his early teens, shooting Shorts and experimental movies on Super 8. After returning to Austria in 1985, he started working on Totentriptychon, a variation on Fritz Language"s Destiny - Der müde Tod, set in an endtime dystopia. At the same time, he worked as editor and writer for the ORF - Austrian Broadcasting and the Bundesamt für Eichund Vermessungswesen or BEV (German for Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying).

He also composed the music and played the lead character.

In 1996 he moved to theater, where he got more into acting. He wrote several well known pieces which were staged worldwide.

Among them were Die fabelhafte Welt des Sigmund Freud and Amerika(Der Verschollene), a piece by Franz Kafka, which Wischin translated and adapted for the stage. He also played one of the leads during a tour in the United States of America.

Since 2006 Wischin teaches Film Dramaturgy, a non-formulaic approach to creating stories, in Vienna, Hollywood and all over the world.

The same basic principles are also used in a system created by Ip Wischin and Marc Miletich, called Contextual Conflict Resolution (presented as "Ginger Paradigm" at the Vienna TEDx Talks 2013).

lieutenant proofs especially efficient in conjunction with economic paradigm changes and the detachment of big corporations strict hierarchies, from the modern social networks. Film Dramaturgy offers a range of communicative processes and analytical tools to resolve these issues.

Achievements

• Ip Wischin received an award at the Wiener Bezirksfestwochen as best actor, for his role as Wladimir in Samuel Beckett"s Waiting for Godot.