André Heller Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Franz André Heller (born March 22, 1947 in Vienna. Born: Francis Charles Georges Jean André Heller-Hueart ) is an Austrian artist, author, singer and actor. Heller was born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family of sweets manufacturers, Gustav & Wilhelm Heller. He visited Café Hawelka almost daily. It was in this coffeehouse that he met many men of letters including Friedrich Torberg, H. C. Artmann and occasionally Elias Canetti as well as Hans Weigel and Helmut Qualtinger, with whom he later on collaborated and performed. He took acting classes from Hans Weigel and his cohabitee... MORE

Franz André Heller (born March 22, 1947 in Vienna. Born: Francis Charles Georges Jean André Heller-Hueart ) is an Austrian artist, author, singer and actor. Heller was born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family of sweets manufacturers, Gustav & Wilhelm Heller. He visited Café Hawelka almost daily. It was in this coffeehouse that he met many men of letters including Friedrich Torberg, H. C. Artmann and occasionally Elias Canetti as well as Hans Weigel and Helmut Qualtinger, with whom he later on collaborated and performed. He took acting classes from Hans Weigel and his cohabitee Elfriede Ott. Heller has been writing prose, poetry, and songs since 1964. He left school shortly before obtaining the Matura, (he went to a Jesuit boarding school). From 1965 to 1967 he was a moderately successful actor at various Viennese avant-garde theatres. In 1967 Heller co-founded Hitradio Ö3, the ORF's then progressive pop music station, where he was one of the hosts of the daily Musicbox programme. That same year he recorded his first LP record with the title Nr1 that was released in 1970. His second LP called Platte was released in 1971 and subsequently his first play premiered entitled LESS