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David Schalko is an author, director, and CEO of Superfilm. He gained recognition in Austria with "Sendung ohne Namen" (Program Without a Name), which pioneered a new television genre starting in 2002. This was followed by numerous award-winning formats for ORF Thursday Night, including "Willkommen Österreich" (since 2007).
Schalko is considered the most stylistically influential television producer of his generation in the German-speaking world. His notable fictional films include "Aufschneider/Carve the Joint" (Austria, 2010) featuring Josef Hader, the mockumentary "Das Wunder von Wien/The Miracle of Vienna" (Austria, 2008), and the feature film "Wie man leben soll/The Way to Live" (Austria, 2011), based on Thomas Glavinic's novel.
His international TV breakthrough came with the acclaimed mini-series "Braunschlag" (Austria, 2012), which became Austria’s most successful series in two decades and was showcased at the Cologne Conference alongside prominent HBO and BBS productions in the "10 Most Important Works Worldwide" category. Schalko’s second series, "Old Money" (Austria, 2015), garnered significant international attention and won an award at the 13th Sichuan TV Festival in Chengdu in 2015.
In 2018, Schalko adapted Fritz Lang’s 1931 classic film "M – A City Hunts a Murderer," co-writing the screenplay with Evi Romen. The six-part series premiered at the Berlinale in 2019. In 2020, he collaborated with Sky Deutschland on the mini-series "Me and the Others," which debuted at the Berlinale in 2021. Schalko wrote and directed the series.
As an author, he gained fame with the novel "Weiße Nacht" (Jung & Jung, 2009), which led to a lawsuit filed by Jörg Haider’s aide Stefan Petzner, attracting international media attention. In 2013, Schalko solidified his reputation as a novelist with "Knoi." His subsequent novels, "Big Bones" (2018), "Bad Regina" (2020), and "What the Day Brings" (2023), were published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
