Fragments of a success story: This volume reconstructs Michael Haneke's career from television all the way to »Amour« - on scene and with interviews. The author in an interview: »How do you get an Oscar? - The book works like Haneke's films themselves. It tells a success story, honestly, associatively, controversially, and with many voices: it marvels, wrestles with words, doubts, errs, holds back in the evaluation of facts, speaks several languages and laughs tears between the lines.«Michael Haneke is not just one of the most renowned exponents of European cinema. His films, in addition to the sometimes astounding and curious constructions, rank among the most discussed and controversial in the history of film. This book on the work and success of the Oscar winner - the most comprehensive to date - rejects the usual interpretations. By means of interviews, it approaches Haneke's often precipitously labeled success story in a nuanced way: as a chronicle of an adventurous journey from Vienna to Cannes via Paris and through to Hollywood - carried by the thoughts of the director as well as the voices of accomplices and enemies.In short: many Haneke stories in one - universal, ruthless, meticulously detailed, and quiet in the places where there is nothing to say.