After military service in World War II Andics became a journalist and worked as an editor, at The New Austria and Die Presse.
From 1 March 1979 to 31 December 1980 Andics was director of the Burgenland Festival. From 11 October 1982 to 27 October 1986, he was director of the ORF Regional Studio Burgenland.
He is best known for its contemporary history reports and documentaries. He also wrote the screenplay for the television series "Ringstraßenpalais" and for the five-part documentary television film "Civil War in Russia", which the ZDF produced in 1967 under the direction of Wolfgang Schleif. He also had the idea for the television series The Salzbaron 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, he was buried at Feuerhalle Simmering.
Literature
1970: Dr.-Karl-Renner-journalism Price
1992: Cultural Prize of Burgenland
Works
1960: The state that nobody wanted
1964: The vices of this time
1965: The case of Otto Habsburg. A Report
1965: The Eternal Jew. Causes and history of anti-Semitism published by Fritz Molden
1967: The Great Terror. From the beginning of the Russian Revolution to the death of Stalin
1968: 50 years of our lives. Austria's fate since 1918
1969: The women of the Habsburgs
1974: The Austrian century. The Austro-Hungarian Empire 1804-1918
1976: The sinking of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austria-Hungary from the turn of the century until November 1918
1976: The Isle of the Blessed. Austria of the Moscow Declaration to the present Convention
1977: Meeting on the Danube
1981: Founder time. The black and yellow Vienna until 1867
1983: Ringstrasse world. Vienna 1867-1887
1984: Luegerzeit. The Black Vienna until 1918
1988: The Jews of Vienna
Filmography
1958: Endangered girl
1958: High sounds of Radetzky March
1958: The Road
1958: The priest and the girl
1959: Girls for the Mambo-Bar
1959: Twelve girls and a man
1960: Meeting Point Salon Parisi
1962: The bear sell herself
1962: When both are guilty
1962: Der rote Rausch
1964: Clouds over Kaprun
1964: The Criminal Court (TV series)
1965: The Blue Danube (TV)
1966: The case Auer / Ranneth - Innocent behind bars
1966: The fall of the generals
1967: The Raging Reporter - Egon Erwin Kisch
1967-1968: Civil war in Russia
1968: The Tree of Kfar Etzyon
1968: Sir Roger Casement
1969: The Spanish Civil War
1969: Grounded for Timothy Evans
1970: The death of Deputies Jean Jaurès
1971: The Bavarian Soviet Republic
1971: The case Jagerstatter
1971: Emperor Charles Last Battle
1971: The Three Faces of Tamara Bunke
1972: That's me - Vienna fates of the '30s: Austria between democracy and dictatorship
1973: If you want, it is not a fairy tale
1973: You will not die alone - A German military chaplains in Paris
