Willi Resetarits

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Wilhelm "Willi" Resetarits, 2018

Wilhelm "Willi" Thomas Resetarits (born December 21, 1948 in Stinatz , Burgenland ) is an Austrian singer and human rights activist .

Life

Resetarits is Burgenland Croat . According to his own statement, Resetarits came to Vienna from southern Burgenland in 1952 , where he only began to speak German at the age of three and a half . He grew up on Humboldtplatz in Vienna- Favoriten (10th district). Resetarits sang and made music in various bands during his time at high school. From 1967 he studied English and sports at the University of Vienna with the aim of becoming a teacher. But his musician career was so successful that he did without the safety net.

In 1969 Resetarits became a member of the political rock band Butterflies . Her most important work, the Proletenpassion (text: Heinz Rudolf Unger ), premiered in 1976 at the Wiener Festwochen . Social issues, domination, oppression and revolutions in Europe from the 16th to the 20th century are dealt with there. Resetarits composed and sang the popular Jalava song in it . In 1977 the butterflies with boom-boom-boomerang took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in London. They ended up in the penultimate place.

With Beatrix Neundlinger , with whom he sang with the Butterflies , Resetarits has a son (born 1981) and a daughter (born 1983).

Resetarits with Ernst Molden at Karlsplatz, 2008

From the mid-1980s he embodied the character of the Kurt Ostbahn or Ostbahn-Kurti, invented by Günter Brödl , with great success . The formation Ostbahn-Kurti & die Chefpartie recorded several albums with rock , blues and rhythm and blues pieces translated into Viennese and gave successful concerts for several years. From 1995 to 1998 designed Resetarits every Sunday on Radio Vienna the shipment comfort and advice by and with Dr. Kurt Ostbahn , where he demonstrated his talent as an entertainer . Günter Brödl died completely unexpectedly in 2000. Resetarits switched to the radio station Ö1 and hosted the monthly program Ein Pferd returns heim , which was renamed Die Willi Resetarits Radioshow at the end of 2000 and ran until May 2002. The concept of the program, which was broadcast live from the large broadcasting hall of the Radiokulturhaus, was as simple as it was effective: conversations with guests and musical contributions alternated. Music was also made live - and it could happen that Kurt Ostbahn & Die Kombo were guests and played songs that had not yet been published.

In December 2003 Resetarits sent his alter ego Kurt Ostbahn “into retirement”, as he said. Resetarits was often mistaken for the Asterix translator into Viennese. In fact, the two volumes published in 1997 and 1998, whose copywriter Dr. aD Kurt Ostbahn was given, translated by Günter Brödl.

From October 2006 Resetarits was back on the air with Willi Resetarits with consolation and advice on Radio Vienna. In 2007, the program could be heard almost every Sunday between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. The 200th and last broadcast was broadcast at the end of June 2012.

Resetarits with the Stubnblues, 2013

Resetarits is still active in musical projects. One of them is the Stubnblues- named mixture of folk songs in German and Croatian , English-language blues and rhythm 'n' blues, Viennese songs and poems set to music by HC Artmann and Karl Farkas, among others . In the Gershwin on a String project , he interpreted songs by George Gershwin together with Tini Kainrath and the string quartet StringFizz . The lyrics are sung partly in the original English version and partly in the Viennese dialect. With Sabina Hank , texts by Jura Soyfer and HC Artmann were set to music in 2008 , on CD and in concerts under the title "Evening Songs". In 2009 the album, recorded together with Ernst Molden , was released without di . Molden wrote Hammerschmidgassn , his first song in the Viennese dialect, for Resetarits .

Resetarits has now become a member of the gang of four Molden, Resetarits, Soyka and Wirth , which is dedicated to the emotional and poetic measurement of Vienna (Sailer). Resetarits is politically active and co-founder of the organizations Asyl in Not and SOS Mitmensch . He also founded Integrationshaus Wien , of which he is honorary chairman. He was sentenced for an appeal to refuse military service .

Resetarits has been a member of the University Council of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2015 .

On the occasion of his 70th birthday Willi Resetarits gave on 4th / 5th January 2019 a double concert with the 12 bands of his musical career plus additional guests. "All his bands" began on Friday with the beat band The Odds , founded in 1963 at the Vienna High School, Ettenreichgasse . The "Dr. Kurt Ostbahn Double" was announced again after mid-August on the Kaiserwiese in Vienna's Prater .

The actor and cabaret artist Lukas Resetarits and the journalist and presenter Peter Resetarits are brothers of Willi Resetarits.

Awards

Willi Resetarits with Molden / Resetarits / Soyka / Wirth at the Rudolstadt Festival 2016.

literature

Web links

Commons : Willi Resetarits  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austropop legends: Willi Resetarits
  2. ↑ Christian Sailer: Popular like the Christ Child , in: daily newspaper Kurier , Vienna, December 15, 2018, p. 38 f.
  3. ↑ Asterix in Viennese ( Memento from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Website of the Integrationshaus Wien
  5. ↑ Double concert with short appearance by Ostbahnkurti orf.at, January 5, 2019, accessed January 5, 2019.
  6. ↑ Austrian Cross of Honor for Willi Resetarits orf.at, June 18, 2013.
  7. ↑ diepresse.com: Austrian of the year 2013 . Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  8. ↑ orf.at: Willi Resetarits receives the Amadeus for his life's work . Article dated May 2, 2017, accessed May 2, 2017.
  9. ↑ Metron for Resetarits & Basbaritenori. In: ORF.at . April 12, 2019, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  10. ↑ epd: Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis 2019. Our Church, November 7th, 2018, accessed on November 8th, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Double concert with short appearance by Ostbahnkurti orf.at, January 5, 2019, accessed January 5, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Resetarits, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Resetarits, Wilhelm Thomas; Ostbahn, Kurt (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cabaret artist and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stinatz , Burgenland