René Bardet

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René Bardet (born April 3, 1948 in Neuhausen am Rheinfall , Canton Schaffhausen , Switzerland; † January 21, 2005 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a Swiss guitarist and later for many years the press spokesman for Swiss television ( SF DRS ).

Life

Bardet was known to a wider audience as a musician, especially in the 1970s. His group Poesie und Musik , to which Andreas Vollenweider and Orlando Valentini also belonged, received various awards and twice the German Record Critics' Award for the albums Maybe because I'm a Wilder with the speech of Chief Seattle , published in 1982 and Alles ist Rund 1983, also with texts by North American Indians . At this time he was also known in Germany through numerous live performances. There were TV and radio productions for SF DRS and SR DRS as well as ARD , ZDF and ORF .

As early as 1973, however, he was already performing together with the later much better known harpist Andreas Vollenweider and the bassist Orlando Valentini. In 1974, corresponding albums with poems by Heinrich Heine ( I can't close my eyes anymore ) and François Villon were released . After a study trip to Latin America after 1980, a double album with poems by Pablo Neruda was released .

During the earthquake in southern Italy in 1980, he worked for a year as a disaster relief worker. Journalistic work became more and more a focus. His talent for languages ​​(he spoke French, Italian, Russian and Spanish fluently) helped him develop features for various broadcasters in the Federal Republic of Germany , Radio DRS and ORF, for example about perestroika .

In 1987 he stopped making music himself, worked as a freelance journalist, PR consultant and ran a translation agency for German-French-German. He also worked as a sound engineer and mixer in the studio and in live performances, for example with Andreas Vollenweider and for concerts by international jazz musicians in Switzerland. In 1993 he joined SF DRS as an employee of the then press spokesman Robert Ruoff. When Ruoff became editor-in-chief for "Education" in 1996, TV director Peter Schellenberg appointed Bardet as his successor as head of press. From April 1, 2004, he took over the management of the newly created "Internal Communication" department.

On January 21, 2005 René Bardet died of cardiac arrest in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

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SURNAME Bardet, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician, composer and press officer for Swiss television
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhausen am Rheinfall
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2005
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen