Wilhelm Thomas "Willi" who was born shortly before Christmas 1948 in Stinatz, Burgenland, initially wanted to become Resetarit's teacher.

However, long before he finally gave up his teacher training, he discovered his love for music, played in various small bands and increasingly took over singing.

In 1969 he joined the political rock group Die Schmetterlinge, in whose choir his older brother Lukas, who became known as the (third) "Kottan" in the crime series of the same name and is still on the road as a cabaret artist and actor, sometimes got involved in the choir.

With the "Proletenpassion" written by Heinz R. Unger (1938 to 2018), the story of suffering of the working people with a small ray of hope ("We want more . . . Democracy!"), the butterflies celebrated from 1976 on in what was then Chancellor Kreisky amazingly progressive Austria their greatest success.

The progressive climate in the country then changed from the mid-1980s and Resetarits left the band, but remained true to the music and his left-wing leanings.

With the interpretation of mainly American rock music, such as that of Bruce Springsteen, in the Viennese dialect - when he was little, the family had moved to the tenth district of Vienna, Favoriten - he now started as "Ostbahn-Kurti".

For the upcoming radio show “Trost & Rat” on “Dr.

Kurt Ostbahn" and with his new band Die Chefpartie (the name is difficult to translate into High German) he also promoted young Austrian music.

As if that weren't enough, the enterprising Willi Resetarits always demonstrated courage against the spirit of the times, founding the "Vienna Integration House" for refugees from all over the world in 1994, just six months after the famous "Sea of ​​Lights" on Heldenplatz against xenophobia.

He died on Sunday at the age of 73.