Günther Schifter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Günther Schifter

Austrian journalist

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1923

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 11-Aug-2008

Profession: journalist, radio personality

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Günther Schifter

  • Günther Schifter (23 December 1923 – 11 August 2008) was an Austrian journalist, radio presenter and record collector. Born in Vienna, Schifter started collecting 78s of the popular music of the interwar years already as a boy.
  • After the war, he played jazz and Swing in occupied Austria, becoming, in 1949, one of the first disc jockeys on Austrian radio.
  • From 1967 to 2000 Schifter had a weekly radio programme, Günther Schifters Schellacks, where he played 78s from his vast personal archives (including, for example, more than 100 cover versions of W.C.
  • Handy's "St.
  • Louis Blues") while always refusing to resort to reissues of older material on vinyl records, audiotape or, later, CDs.
  • In between songs Schifter developed his style of giving enjoyable history lessons. Ousted by the Austrian state radio (ORF) in 2000 due to a switch to the more commercial music radio format, Schifter continued broadcasting for a while from Bavaria, Germany.
  • He died on 11 August 2008, aged 84, in Salzburg.

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