Bert Breit

Austrian journalist, film maker and director, composer, writer and illustrator He was born July 25, 1927 in Innsbruck and died there September 17, 2004. Breit co-founded Kammerchor Walther Von Der Vogelweide and led the chamber choir 15 years. From 1951 to 1967 he was program director for Ernste Musik at ORF Studio Tirol. The choir and the director job at ORF got taken over by Othmar Costa. From 1968 onwards, Breit focused on documentary films, mostly documenting daily life and problems of the Austrian people. As a composer he wrote various pieces for orchestra, radio and TV, most known signation was the jingle for " Der Schalldämpfer" with Axel Corti, aired on Ö3.