Walter Pissecker

Walter Pissecker's grave

Walter Pissecker (born October 1, 1929 in Vienna , † June 20, 1985 in Vienna) was an Austrian television journalist and lyricist of Wienerliedern .

Life

Walter Pissecker designed the ORF series Panorama together with Thaddäus Podgorski . For 16 years he devoted himself to unusual people with unusual occupations or hobbies. His sensitive, empathetic reporting never gave the impression of “exhibiting” or mocking the somewhat bizarre people to whom it was dedicated. Pissecker presented, among other things, Austrian western riders and animal lovers with alligators in the bathtub , he dealt with the " Greißlersterben ", with the profession of toilet attendant and with people with particularly skilled toes. He portrayed Franz Gsellmann, the completely unironic manufacturer of a world machine à la Jean Tinguely , the hobbyist Emil Müller, who launched his two-stage rockets from the Perchtoldsdorfer Heide, the strong-bitten Günther Lerchbaumer from Carinthia, who climbed entire dam walls and rock walls with a rope in his mouth pulled up, and many more.

Together with Podgorsky, Walter Pissecker also invented and designed the ORF program Seinerzeit .

For Karl Hodina he wrote numerous Viennese songs like I let cherries grow for you and Mir ham's my allotment garden g'numman .

Walter Pissecker was married to Anna Pissecker, née Hopfgartner, and had two sons with her. The son Wolfgang Pissecker (* 1965) later addressed the complicated relationship with his father, who died early, in a cabaret program.

His final resting place is in the Perchtoldsdorfer Friedhof (group 1, number 444).

Videos

• The last way of the Maria Hofmann Panorama (ORF), September 18, 1981, 9 min.

Publications

• Karl Hodina. A painter from Vienna. Text by Walter Pissecker, Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7141-6739-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date of birth and death at o94.at