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
