Hans Breidbach-Bernau

Hans Breidbach-Bernau was a photo journalist and camera assistant in World War II, then a freelance writer (poetry, short stories, novels) as well as a competitor, coach, sports instructor, initiator and publicist in various sporting fields. He received Honorable Mention for his work Sensenschmid at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. The booklet with this title contains the stories Sensenschmid and Vergessen (Forgotten). It was published in Klagenfurt in 1947. Sensenschmid tells of separate stations of the short and often lonely life and finally the death of a professional cyclist.

Breidbach-Bernau was also one of the pioneers of ski touring in Austria. In the winter seasons 1965-68 he created in Seefeld along with spa director Walter Frenes the conditions to get cross-country skiing more popular. Not at least, his ideas led to the founding of the competition “Around the Wolfgangsee”.