Gerhard Gruber is an Austrian composer and piano player. As accompanist for silent movies he has become the leading authority in Austria since 1988.

He has performed for about 450 different films (Delhi-Pune-Goa/ India 2011, Tokyo 2006/ 2007/ 2008, Hobart/ Australia 2007-09, Rotorua/ New Zealand 2008, Padova, Motovun Film Festival 2007, Cineconcerts Bordeaux 2005, Filmfestival Pisek/CZ, Filmfestival Uherske Hradiste 2009, Viennale 1999-2004, Munich, Hamburg, Diagonale).

Since 1983 Gerhard Gruber is working and performing as a composer and musician for theatre.

Awards: 2006: "Nestroypreis", 2008: "Landeskulturpreis Upper Austria"

Performances for Silent Movies (out of 450)

• Metropolis
  Metropolis (film)
  Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and...
  
  
• Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
• Nanook of the North
  Nanook of the North
  Nanook of the North is a 1922 silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and his family in the Canadian arctic...
  
  
• Café Elektric
  Café Elektric
  Café Elektric is an Austrian film directed by Gustav Ucicky.- Plot outline :The daughter of a wealthy industrialist falls for a pickpocket .- Cast :* Willi Forst ... Fredl* Marlene Dietrich ... Erni Göttlinger...
  
  
• Intolerance
  Intolerance (film)
  Intolerance is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines each separated by several centuries: A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; a...
  
  
• Pandoras Box
• Die freudlose Gasse
  Die freudlose Gasse
  Joyless Street , a film based on the novel by Hugo Bettauer and directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst in France, is one of the first films of the "New Objectivity“ movement. Greta Garbo stars in her second major role...
  
  
• Broken Blossoms
  Broken Blossoms
  Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl is a 1919 silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. It was distributed by United Artists and premiered on May 13, 1919...
  
  
• Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
  Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
  is a classic 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok...
  
  
• Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü
• Die Sklavenkönigin

Venues

• Delhi-Pune-Goa/ India Silent Movie Tour 2011
• Silence! Silent Movie Festival Rotorua, Neuseeland 2008
• Motovun Film Festival
  Motovun Film Festival
  Motovun Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 1999 and held in Motovun, Croatia. It usually takes place over 5–6 days in late July or early August...
  
   2007
• Jüdisches Filmfestival Wien 2007/ 2010
• Austria Japan Silent Film Duo Project, Tokyo
• State Cinema Hobart/ Australien 2007/ 2008 / 2010
• International Student Film Festival Písek 2008
• Filmfestival Uherske Hradiste/CZ 2009
• Silent Movie at bei "Amici della musica di Padova" 2008
• Cinéconcerts Bordeaux 2005
• Breitenseer Lichtspiele Wien
• Viennale
  Viennale
  The Vienna International Film Festival, or Viennale, is a film festival taking place every October since 1960 in Vienna, Austria.The average number of visitors is about 75,000. Traditional cinema venues are Gartenbaukino, Urania, Metro-Kino, Filmmuseum and Stadtkino...
  
  
• Metrokino / Filmarchiv Austria
  Filmarchiv Austria
  The Filmarchiv Austria is an organisation for the discovery, reconstruction and preservation of Austrian film record material: films themselves, literature about film and cinema, or film-related periodicals...
  
  
• Österreichisches Filmmuseum
• Filmmuseum München
• Diagonale
• Prater Filmfestival 2005/ 2006

Theatre Works (Selection)

• Das Nibelungenlied - Justus Neumann - 2010
• Die 39 Stufen - Schauspielhaus Salzburg - 2010/2011
• Hennir - Isabel Karajan - 2009
• Bettleroper - Projekttheater Vorarlberg - 2009
• Grieche sucht Griechin - Projekttheater Vorarlberg - 2008
• Katapult - Circus Elysium - 2007
• Ein Fall für Jerry Cotton - Waldviertler Hoftheater - 2006
• How much, Schatzi? - Projekttheater Vorarlberg - 2006
• Automatenbüfett - Theater in der Josefstadt Wien - 2004
• Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind - Theater in der Josefstadt Wien - 2004
• Mann, Frau, Kind - Theater in der Josefstadt Wien - 2003
• Das Dschungelbuch - Theater der Jugend Wien - 2002
• Der Zerrissene - Volkstheater Wien - 1997
• Don Quijote - Justus Neumann Wien - 1997
• Die letzten Tage der Menschheit - Donaufestival Krems - 1994
• Nach Aschenfeld - Rabenhof Wien - 1993
• Titanic oder sink positiv - Theater Phönix Linz - 1991
• Mir soll ins Herz gestochen werden - Theater Narrnkastl Wien - 1985
• Mozarella - Zwischen den Zeilen Theater Zürich - 1983