Günter Brödl

Günter Brödl (born March 22, 1955 in Vienna ; † October 10, 2000 there ) was an Austrian writer, songwriter and music journalist.

Life

In the seventies, Günter Brödl began as a radio host of Ö3 telecast the jukebox . There he dealt mainly with American rock music.

His first literary work The Cool Head - a volume of short stories - was published in 1975. In 1976, the play To Friendship Prize followed and in 1977 Out in the City, which was filmed in 1978 by ORF as an 18-part television series. In 1978 his book Click Clack - Wiener Rockstories was published .

1979 appeared in Günter Brödl's play Who owns rock n 'roll? for the first time the figure of the " Ostbahn-Kurti " on. Because he liked Ostbahn-Kurti, a supporting role in the play, so much, he invented her entire biography for this fictional character.

Ostbahn-Kurti allegedly had already produced two LPs and song lyrics appeared repeatedly in various newspapers. The Musicbox also brought an interview with Ostbahn. In order to make his story even more believable, Brödl placed advertisements like “Looking for the first record from Ostbahn-Kurti!”, Sprayed “Kurt Ostbahn lives!” On motorway bridges and on April 1, 1983 hosted a “Sold out” concert by the fictional rock band "Ostbahn-Kurti & the boss part".

After another play - Schlafstadtkinder nicht (1979) - and the novel Tempo City (1982), Brödl met the musician Willi Resetarits in 1983 , then a member of the band Butterflies , with whom he breathed life into the Ostbahn-Kurti phenomenon.

From then on Brödl translated American rock classics into Viennese; so was z. B. from "Sharp Dressed Man" Neiche Schoin and from " I Heard It Through The Grapevine " Wo hamma then the Foaschein . In 1985 the first LP Ostbahn Kurti & die Chefpartie was released, followed by countless live concerts in which Brödl was always involved, first as a lighting technician and then as the legendary "trainer". From 1985 until his sudden death on October 10, 2000, he wrote all the lyrics for Ostbahn-Kurti & die Chefpartie and later for Kurt Ostbahn & die Kombo, which were released on a total of 20 records, eight of which were only published after Brödl's death.

Brödl also wrote the six Ostbahn Kurti crime novels Blutrausch (1995), Hitzschlag (1996), Claustrophobia (1997), Kopfschuss (1999) Peep Show / Trainer & Trash Determine (together with Peter Hiess , 2000) and Schneeblind (2002, published posthumously).

In 1997 a film adaptation of Blutrausch (director: Thomas Roth) came to the cinema, for which Brödl had also written the script. In 1998 his song book Ostbahn: Auslese was published .

Brödl also wrote lyrics for other musicians, including Minisex , Denk , Babsi Balou , Klaus Trabitsch and Mom & Dead . He also translated two volumes of Asterix into Viennese (Da große Grobn and Da Woasoga) .

In 1993 the Donaufestival Amstetten premiered his play Dynamo Donau Blues, Bluesical , in 1999 he translated the musical Hotline to heaven for the Wiener Schauspielhaus and in the same year his musical Be-Bop A Lulatsch '59 was premiered in the Vienna Metropol.

Brödl also worked with the graphic artist Ronald Putzker . With him he created the comic series Anna Stein and the volume Rehpublik Österreich (2000) - a fictional travel guide through the deer republic of Austria, in which the deer has been "rehearsing" for 100 years.

Günter Brödl's tomb in the Neustift cemetery (8-4-3)

On October 10, 2000, Günter Brödl died of sudden cardiac death in his apartment in Vienna at the age of only 45. In addition to his literary work, he was one of the most prominent music journalists in Austria. In 2001 he was posthumously honored with the Amadeus Austrian Music Award for his life's work .

Works

Books

• 1975: The cool head
• 1978: Click Clack
• 1982: Tempo City
• 1995: Bloodlust
• 1996: heat stroke
• 1997: Claustrophobia
• 1998: Trainer & Trash (serialized novel in Vienna)
• 1998: Ostbahn selection
• 1999: headshot
• 2000: peep show
• 2000: Deer Republic of Austria
• 2002: Snow blind

Discography (as Ostbahn songwriter)

• 1985: Ostbahn-Kurti & the boss
• 1985: Live
• 1988: A beautiful corpse
• 1989: Liagn & Lochn
• 1991: 1/2 so wild
• 1992: A blede Gschicht
• 1994: Saft & Kraft
• 1994: Consolation & Advice
• 1995: Espresso Rosi
• 1997: Reserved fia zwa
• 1997: Bloodlust
• 1999: 50 years given away in the service of rock music (also as the singer of "Des känke")
• 2001: Ohjo
• 2002: Courtesies
• 2003: When the music ...
• 2003:… vuabei is
• 2003: Hohe Warte Live 1
• 2003: Hohe Warte Live 2
• 2003: Hohe Warte Live 3
• 2005: High time - an evening at the Quellen Inn

Plays

• 1976: At the friendship award
• 1977: Out in the city
• 1979: Who Owns Rock 'n' Roll?
• 1979: Dormitory city children do not sleep
• 1982: Tempomatic (Performance)
• 1993: Dynamo Danube Blues
• 1999: Hotline To Heaven
• 2000: Be-Bop A Lulatsch '59

Scripts

• 197 ?: Before the deadline, TV
• 197 ?: Without network, TV
• 1978: Out in the city, 18-part television series, ORF
• 1981: Saturday Night Frust, TV movie, ORF
• 1982: Neon Mix, TV film, ORF
• 1985: Belle's Paradise, TV movie, ORF
• 1985: Wild Taste Of Chicago, music film, ORF (also director)
• 1990: Rockin 'Video, several episodes, ORF
• 1995: An evening at Espresso Rosi (also director)
• 1997: Blutrausch, feature film (with Milan Dor & Willi Resetarits)
• 2000: Heat stroke (with Willi Resetarits)

comics

• 1989: "Anna Stein" hare hunting
• 1991: "Anna Stein" Hotel Paranoia
• 1992: "Liagn & Lochn", supplement to the LP of the same name
• 1994: "Anna Stein" The last alpine glow
• 1995: "Anna Stein" anthology
• 1997: "Asterix" "Da große Grobn"
• 1998: "Asterix" "Da Woasoga"

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Brödl in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.ostbahn.at/trainer - Günter Brödl
• www.ostbahn.at - Ostbahn-Kurti
• www.espressorosi.at
• Bloodlust - the film (Film-Wiki)