Steff Gruber

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steff Gruber
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Apr 3, 1953(1953-04-03)
Age	71
Birthplace	Zürich
Country	Switzerland
Birth City	Canton of Zürich
Horoscope	Aries

Steff Gruber Biography

Steff Gruber is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on April 3, 1953 in Zürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Gruber’s latest movie Fire, Fire, Desire! is a love-themed odyssey set that takes place in Southeast Asia, which is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s short story Heart of Darkness (1899).

After and during his period in the Juventus Gymnasium (higher secondary school) in Zurich beginning in 1972. Gruber was a student at films and classes taught by Dr. Martin Schlappner, Viktor Sidler, Georg Radanowicz and Sebastian C. Schroder at the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurichand F+F Schule fur Gestaltung (Zurich) (F+F Zurich College of Design]. For his two years within F+F Zurich College of Design he studied alongside Doris Stauffer, Serge Stauffer Hansjorg Matmuller, Serge Stauffer along with Hansjorg Mattmuller and Peter Jenny. In addition, he worked as a photographer for commercials as well as a filmmaker.

As long ago as 1973 Steff Gruber founded his first company, Steff Gruber Enterprises. As a graphic artist, film maker and technician, he functioned in multiple roles in creating his first authored films, television advertising spots and industrial films, and designing posters and advertisements.

In 1974 Gruber studied Mass Media Philosophy for one year at the University of Georgia, where he made the acquaintance of the painter and film director James Herbert. His friendship with Herbert had a lasting effect on him, and remains an influence on his work to the present day.

Gruber has been involved in photography since the year 1970. While at the F+F School for Gestaltung, he was not just as a film maker and press photographer, but also at Keystone Press. The year 1977 was when Gruber looked into new photography methods to combine diapositives and instant images. He referred to this technique as diatypie. For his projects in the field of art, SEXTOX.COM as well as webdesire.com in the early 1990s Gruber utilized bots, which were fully automated systems to search the internet for sexually explicit images. These later became the focus in his installations that were altered form.

Steff Gruber Net Worth

Steff Gruber is one of the richest Film Director from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steff Gruber 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Steff Gruber (born 3 April 1953 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a filmmaker writer, photographer and entrepreneur, as well as a telecommunications and internet pioneer.

As a publisher Steff Gruber was the founder of the non-commercial, independent magazine TOX which is an open-format platform that caters to photography as well as other disciplines of art. The very first issue of TOX featured the Swiss filmmaker and artist Jurg Hassler. The magazine featured photography that was made primarily during his work as a journalist during his time in Switzerland, France and Italy in the 1960s.

1973: Tourist Information (short experimental film, 16mm, black/white, 14 min.)

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Gruber’s second film, Fetish & Dreams, was also created in the USA. He started work on it in 1982. Filmed in New York City, it constitutes a formal and thematic sequel to the one preceding it. In his second long film Gruber also embarked on new paths in a technical sense. With the help of a method he developed himself, the film was first created electronically on video before being copied subsequently to 35 mm, making it the first video transfer in Swiss cinema. Fetish & Dreams was given its first showing in the Locarno International Film Festival competition, winning the prize ‘for directorial originality in dealing with documentary and feature film elements’. The film has been shown at various film festivals worldwide. During the work of filming Gruber was introduced by his cameraman Rainer Klausmann to the German film director Werner Herzog. In 1987 the latter invited him to follow the filming work as his film Cobra Verde was created in Ghana. The result was the film Location Africa, which documents the filming work and last cooperative project of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski.

Facts & Trivia

Steff Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Switzerland. Steff Gruber celebrates birthday on April 3 of every year.

1985: Fetish & Dreams (docudrama, 35mm, colour, 82 min.)