Bert Breit

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Bert Breit (born July 25, 1927 in Innsbruck ; † September 17, 2004 there ) was an Austrian composer , journalist , filmmaker , actor and draftsman .

Life

Bert Breit attended elementary school and grammar school in Innsbruck. His involvement in a resistance group against the Nazi regime brought him into political custody towards the end of the war. After the war, he began studying music in Innsbruck and graduated from the Mozarteum in Salzburg . He then had private lessons with Carl Orff . A scholarship from the Institut Francais took him to Paris to continue his studies.

In 1946, at the age of 19, Bert Breit founded the Walther von der Vogelweide Chamber Choir with like-minded people , with which he celebrated great successes around the world. He led the choir for 15 years.

From 1951 to 1967 Bert Breit headed the serious music department at ORF Tirol .

From 1968 Bert Breit made documentaries that mainly dealt with sociopolitical and social issues. In addition, he designed numerous features for radio and television.

In addition to numerous film scores, his musical oeuvre mainly includes works for chamber and string orchestras and his radiophonies. The signature for the radio feature The Silencer is a special memory . by and with Axel Corti .

In addition to Breits artistic work, his social commitment should also be emphasized. He worked on a voluntary basis as a probation officer and dealt critically with society's dealings with minorities in numerous radio features.

His daughter Barbara Breit played the role of his daughter in the crime scene Himmelfahrt , where Breit also wrote the music. Obviously, this was her only appearance in a movie.

Awards

  • 1991 Circom Prize from French Television (FR 3) for the television documentary "I am not disabled, I can talk".
  • 1997 Prize for Music from the Federal Chancellery Arts Section
  • 1998 Tyrolean State Prize for Art

Works

Filmography

Director (and writer)

  • 1971: Jakob Stainer . On the difficulty of the biography.
  • 1976: The Zillertal violinists. documentary
  • 1985: Servant life.
  • 1985: An opportunity for outsiders .
  • 1986: From big and small farmers.
  • 1987: train station at night.
  • 1993: The red Landa. Portrait of an unusual woman.
  • with Xaver Schwarzenberger: 1993 You will never understand us .
  • 1993: I am not disabled, I can talk. The South Tyrolean poet Georg Paulmichl .
  • 1995: We weren't ready to participate. Ostracized and forgotten. About desertion, conscientious objection and clan imprisonment during National Socialism in South Tyrol.
  • 1997: Kuisa, geah. About animal calls.
  • 1998: loneliness . Report on a suffering of our time.

actor

composer

Radio plays

Features

  • 1985: subsistence level
  • 1985: Youth prostitution: The Marina B.
  • 1985: The poacher
  • 1986: From big and small farmers
  • 1987: train station at night
  • 1988: Hedwig and Agnes
  • 1990: The New Middle Ages
  • 1992: A head has never plowed a field (portrait of the writer Alois Hotschnig )
  • 1993: Gypsy life. Rosa B. for example.
  • 1993: The red Landa. Portrait of an unusual woman
  • 1993: "I am not disabled, I can talk" (portrait of the writer Georg Paulmichl )
  • 1996: Culture in the Province. The festival in St. Gallen
  • 1997: Shepherd life. "Kuisa, geah"
  • 1998: loneliness. Report on a suffering of our time
  • 1998: Hedwig and Agnes (published on Bert Breit for the 75s )
  • 2000: Don't pity, don't laugh at, don't loathe. The work of the Innsbruck medical team Karl and Eva Nemec
  • 2000: The death march in 1945 via Eisenstrasse to Mauthausen (published on Bert Breit for the 75 )

Musical work

Radiophonies
  • 1967 The carousel (Text: Hannes Stütz )
  • 1969 sermons (text: Herbert Asmodi )
  • 1987 Memento vita et mors (Text: Bert Breit)
  • 1988/1989 tangents
Piano works
  • 1961 dance piece
  • 1962 Four pieces for piano
  • 1962 situations I
  • 1993 Hydra
  • 1989 For Johannes
Choir and ensemble music
Orchestral works / chamber music
  • 1964 Suite sportive
  • 1964 shepherd music for Christmas
  • 1966 meditations for string orchestra
  • 1989 impulses. Concerto for violin and strings
  • 1990 When I met Ms. Müller on a Sunday morning. Blasphemy for brass quintet
  • 1991 Tensions I (for string quartet)
  • 1991 Tensions II (for chamber orchestra)
  • 1994 concert for piano, strings and percussion
  • 1995 traces (for clarinet and string quartet)
  • 1995 stations (for violin, violoncello and strings)
  • 1996 Schibboleth (trio for violin, violoncello and piano)
  • 1997 Concerto funebre. (for viola and strings)
  • 1999 Ballad for Monika (for violin, piano and strings)

Discography

  • Bert Breit a documentation (2CDs)
  • Bert Breit zum 75er (book with 2 CDs)
  • Yodelers (You could hear screaming on the mountains) , CD

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.breit.biz/music/micro_player.html
  2. ↑ http://www.tatort-fundus.de/web/haben/chrono/1/1978/090-himmelfahrt/bert-breit.html
  3. ↑ http://www.breit.biz/sites/dokumentation.html
  4. ↑ http://www.museumabsam.at:8081/4DCGI/veranstaltung_detail?60  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.museumabsam.at  
personal data
SURNAME Wide, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, journalist, filmmaker and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 2004
Place of death innsbruck