Summary Glawogger 54, won numerous prizes for gritty films such as "Whores' Glory" and "Workingman's Death".
VIENNA (AFP) - Award-winning Austrian documentary maker Michael Glawogger has died from malaria while on the African leg of a world tour to shoot a new film, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Glawogger, who was 54, won numerous prizes for gritty films such as "Whores Glory" (2011) about prostitution and "Workingman s Death" (2005) on the extremes people go to earn a living in the developing world.
He also teamed up with Wim Wenders, Robert Redford and other directors for the 3D "Cathedrals of Culture", which featured at this year s Berlin Film Festival.
Austrian Film Institute head Roland Teichmann said Glawogger "never allowed himself to be pigeonholed and leaves behind a cinematic oeuvre that has gone into the canon of world cinema".
Glawogger died while travelling through Liberia in west Africa with two others in a red Volkswagen van on a year-long filming trip that had already taken in eastern Europe, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Senegal.
