Günther Schifter
Günther Schifter (23 December 1923 – 11 August 2008) was an Austrian journalist, radio presenter and record collector.[1][2]
Born in
78s of the popular music of the interwar years already as a boy. American popular music was banned by the authorities as Negermusik; Schifter was arrested at a dance in December 1944 and interned at Oberlanzendorf until 2 April 1945.[1]
After the war, he played
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.
See also
- Swing Movement in Nazi Germany
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-80073-260-5.
- ^ "ORF trauert um Radiolegende Günther Schifter". OTS.at (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-03.
External links
- Günther Schifter: "Unterhaltung in den vierziger Jahren" ("Entertainment during the 1940s") (1998) (an essay very similar to his radio show; in German).
- Howdy! Günther Schifter, an Internet exhibition (2006) by the Austrian Mediathek.
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