David Schalko
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
David Schalko is an author, director and CEO of Superfilm. He made a name for himself in Austria with "Sendung ohne
Namen" (program without a name), which established a completely new genre in
television from 2002 onwards. Numerous award-winning formats followed as part
of ORF Thursday Night, such as "Willkommen Österreich" (since 2007).
Schalko is regarded as the most style-defining television producer of his generation in the German-speaking world. His most important fictional film works include "Aufschneider/Carve the Joint" (Ö 2010) with Josef Hader, the mockumentary "Das Wunder von Wien/ The miracle of Vienna " (Ö 2008), and the feature film "Wie man leben soll/The Way to Live" (Ö 2011) based on a novel by Thomas Glavinic.
Schalko's international TV breakthrough came with the award-winning mini- series "Braunschlag" (Ö 2012), which became the most successful series in
Austria in 20 years and was screened at the Cologne Conference alongside renowned HBO and BBS productions in the category "10 most important works worldwide". Schalko's second series "Old Money" (Ö 2015) attracted high international attention and was also awarded at the 13th Sichuan TV Festival in Chengdu in 2015.
In 2018, Schalko adapted Fritz Lang's classic film "M - A City hunts a Murderer" from 1931, and wrote the screenplay together with Evi Romen. The six-part series celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2019. In 2020, a co-production with Sky Deutschland resulted in the mini-series "Me and the Others", which celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2021. Schalko is responsible for the script as well as the direction of the series. As an author, he made a name for himself with the novel "Weiße Nacht" (Jung&Jung Publisher, 2009). Jörg Haider's aide Stefan Petzner filed a lawsuit against the novel. The trial was followed internationally with great attention. It was followed in 2013 by the novel "Knoi", which finally established Schalko as a novelist. His following novels "Big Bones" (2018), "Bad Regina" (2020) and "What the day brings" (2023), were published by Kiepenhauer & Witsch.
Schalko is regarded as the most style-defining television producer of his generation in the German-speaking world. His most important fictional film works include "Aufschneider/Carve the Joint" (Ö 2010) with Josef Hader, the mockumentary "Das Wunder von Wien/ The miracle of Vienna " (Ö 2008), and the feature film "Wie man leben soll/The Way to Live" (Ö 2011) based on a novel by Thomas Glavinic.
Schalko's international TV breakthrough came with the award-winning mini- series "Braunschlag" (Ö 2012), which became the most successful series in
Austria in 20 years and was screened at the Cologne Conference alongside renowned HBO and BBS productions in the category "10 most important works worldwide". Schalko's second series "Old Money" (Ö 2015) attracted high international attention and was also awarded at the 13th Sichuan TV Festival in Chengdu in 2015.
In 2018, Schalko adapted Fritz Lang's classic film "M - A City hunts a Murderer" from 1931, and wrote the screenplay together with Evi Romen. The six-part series celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2019. In 2020, a co-production with Sky Deutschland resulted in the mini-series "Me and the Others", which celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2021. Schalko is responsible for the script as well as the direction of the series. As an author, he made a name for himself with the novel "Weiße Nacht" (Jung&Jung Publisher, 2009). Jörg Haider's aide Stefan Petzner filed a lawsuit against the novel. The trial was followed internationally with great attention. It was followed in 2013 by the novel "Knoi", which finally established Schalko as a novelist. His following novels "Big Bones" (2018), "Bad Regina" (2020) and "What the day brings" (2023), were published by Kiepenhauer & Witsch.
