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Gerhard Bronner (23 October 1922 in Favoriten, Vienna – 19 January 2007 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer, writer, musician and a cabaret artist, known for his contribution to Austrian culture in the post-World War II period.
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Gerhard Bronner (23 October 1922 in Favoriten, Vienna – 19 January 2007 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer, writer, musician and a cabaret artist, known for his contribution to Austrian culture in the post-World War II period.
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Life Born to a Jewish family, his parents and elder brothers were detained in Dachau concentration camp after Germany had invaded Austria. Bronner fled from occupied Austria to Czechoslovakia and later to Palestine, where he started his musical career. In 1948 he returned to Vienna and originally had planned to stay only for a few weeks and then to move on to London. But he chose Vienna as his permanent residence after having been offered a chance to work there. Bronner took over a dubious night-club called "Marietta-Bar" which he transformed into a small theater. There Bronner assembled a group of young artists which would later become renowned Austrian actors and cabaret artists. Among them were Georg Kreisler and Helmut Qualtinger for whom Bronner wrote many songs. Bronner and Qualtinger also appeared together in the "Travnicek"-dialogs, with Qualtinger playing an ignorant but at the same time astute Viennese who cunningly answered Bronner's provoking questions. In the mid-1980s, disheartened by his country's sharp turn to the right (Kurt Waldheim's presidency) and dismayed by the antisemitism he felt was becoming more prevalent there, Bronner moved to the United States, and lived in Boca Raton, Florida. Suddenly free from the demands of celebrity,…
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Honours and awards Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (1978)
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Johann Nestroy Ring of Vienna (1979) Golden Medal of Honour of the City of Vienna (2002)
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Works Glasl vorm Aug. (with Carl Merz and Helmut Qualtinger; Preface by Axel von Ambesser); Langen/Müller, München 1960. Trautes Heim. Heitere Szenen eeiner Ehe. (with Lore Krainer); Amalthea, Wien 1983, ISBN 3-85002-186-6. Kein Blattl vor'm Mund. Ein ungeschriebenes Buch. (Prologue by Lore Krainer; Epilogue by Fritz Muliar, Peter Orthofer, Erwin Steinhauer and other); Astor Verlag, Wien 1992, ISBN 3-900277-16-8. Die goldene Zeit des Wiener Cabarets. (incl. 1 CD); Hannibal Verlag, St. Andrä-Wördern 1995, ISBN 3-85445-115-6. Reissue as: Meine Jahre mit Qualtinger. Amalthea Verlag, Wien 2003, ISBN 3-85002-499-7. Tränen gelacht. Der jüdische Humor. Amalthea, Wien 1999, ISBN 3-85002-439-3. Spiegel vorm Gesicht. Erinnerungen. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, München 2004, ISBN 3-421-05812-1.