Günther Schifter [SEP] date of death
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
, in Salzburg.
See also.
- Swing Movement in Nazi Germany
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.