Hellmut Andics

[1] After military service in World War II Andics became a journalist and worked as an editor, at The New Austria and Die Presse.

He also wrote the screenplay for the television series Ringstraßenpalais and for the five-part documentary television film Bürgerkrieg in Rußland [de], which the ZDF produced in 1967 under the direction of Wolfgang Schleif.

He also had the idea for the television series Der Salzbaron [de] by Bernd Fischerauer.

Andics was the father of two sons (Eric and Maximilian) and had three grandchildren (Daniel, Therese and Sophie).

Hellmut Andics died in his apartment in Vienna in the early morning hours of August 19, 1998, of heart failure.