Willi Resetarits, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Willi Resetarits

Austrian singer and human rights activist

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1948

Place of Birth: Stinatz, Burgenland, Austria

Profession: actor, singer, human rights activist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Willi Resetarits

  • Wilhelm Resetarits (born 21 December 1948 in Stinatz, Austria), better known as Willi Resetarits and Dr.
  • Kurt Ostbahn, is an Austrian singer, comedian and human rights activist. Resetarits was born in the Austrian state Burgenland, but his family moved to Vienna when he was three.
  • He studied sports and English studies intending to become a teacher, but his successful career as a musician intervened. In 1969 Resetarits joined the political rock band Schmetterlinge (Butterflies).
  • They participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 in London with the song "Boom-Boom-Boomerang", which was voted into last but one place. In the mid-1980s, together with his colleague Günter Brödl he developed his alter ego Dr.
  • Kurt Ostbahn, an excessive personality with an intense stage presence, which turned out to be very successful.
  • The name was created in the mid-1970s, when Günter Brödl was asked during a radio show what American musicians like Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes would call themselves if they were from Vienna.
  • He answered Ostbahn Kurti & die Chefpartie, which a decade later became the name of Willi Resetarits and his band.
  • Resetarits also introduced the musical form of Favorit'n'Blues, a Viennese form of rhythm and blues.
  • After Günter Brödl died unexpectedly in 2000, Dr.
  • Kurt Ostbahn went on a final commemoration tour and then announced in December 2003 that he would let his alter ego retire. However, after the "official" retirement of Dr.
  • Kurt Ostbahn after the last concert on December 31, 2003, there were 4 other appearances as Dr.
  • Kurt Ostbahn: October 10 & 11 2010 - initially announced as CD box presentation - two memorial concerts around the 10th anniversary of Brödls death.
  • August 27 & 28 2011, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the infamous "Ostbahn XI" open-air concert.
  • In all four concerts, Resetarits/Ostbahn was joined on stage by a selection of musicians from his two bands, "Chefpartie" and "Kombo". From 1995 to 1998 Trost und Rat von und mit Dr.
  • Kurt Ostbahn (Solace and advice by and with Kurt Ostbahn, Ph.D.) was a very popular weekly radio show in Vienna, which verified Resetarits as an extraordinary entertainer.
  • In 2006 the broadcast carried on, this time featuring Willi Resetarits instead of Dr.
  • Kurt Ostbahn. Even after the retirement of his alter ego Ostbahn Kurti/Dr.
  • Kurt Ostbahn, Resetarits is very successful with very different music productions.
  • In 2006 he was on tour with the Kurdish singer Sivan Perwer presenting World music and together with the Xtra Combo Resetarits interprets a wild mixture of Croatian Folk music, Wienerlieder (traditional Viennese ballads), Jazz and Blues as Stubnblues. Resetarits is a human rights activist and one of the founders of the humanitarian organisations Asyl in Not and SOS Mitmensch.
  • He is also one of the founders and chairman of the Integration House Vienna.
  • He has made frequent appearances on Austrian TV and in film productions. Lukas Resetarits (cabaret artist and actor on TV) and Peter Resetarits (TV host at ORF) are his brothers.
  • Karin Resetarits, a present member of the European Parliament, is his divorced sister-in-law.

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