Alfons Dalma

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Alfons Dalma (third from left) during ORF TV coverage of the 1970 National Council election . Left: Alfred Payrleitner .

Alfons Dalma , actually Stjepan "Stipe" Tomičić , (born May 26, 1919 in Otočac , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; †  July 28, 1999 in Vienna , Austria ) was a Croatian-Austrian journalist , propagandist and diplomat from the Ustascha Regime .

Life

Tomičić was raised Catholic by the Dominicans and studied politics in Zagreb and Paris .

From 1941 to 1943 he was the editor of Hrvatski Narod , the main organ of the fascist Ustaša in Zagreb . He also wrote for the Ustaše magazine Pokret . In 1944 he went to Berlin and Vienna as a press attaché of the Ustasha state . The fascist regime awarded him two medals; one of them he received personally from Ante Pavelić .

Despite his fascist career, Gustav Canaval hired him in 1945 as deputy editor-in-chief of the newly founded daily newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten . In 1946 Dalma became an Austrian citizen. In the spring of 1950 he was responsible for the publication of the notes, titled by Mussolini as Pontine and Sardinian Thoughts , under the title "Mussolini's Diary", which appeared in eight successive parts. Dalma stayed with the SN until 1952 .

From 1953 to 1962 he worked for Münchner Merkur . He had a teaching position at the Munich School of Politics and also published in the Vienna daily Die Presse , the Bayernkurier and the Wehrkunde magazine .

In 1967 the new general director of the ORF , Gerd Bacher , brought him to the state Austrian broadcasting company as editor-in-chief. Dalma was awarded the Dr. Karl Renner Journalism Prize in 1969. In 1974, when the first Bacher era at ORF ended for political reasons, Dalma went to Italy as a Rome correspondent for ORF until 1986 . He also translated some of Giovanni Guareschi's Don Camillo books into German .

In 1988/89 Dalma received the René Marcic Prize , named after the former publisher of the Salzburger Nachrichten and legal philosopher, who was born in the same year as Dalma and also grew up in Yugoslavia.

Alfons Dalma was buried in the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 9, row 5, number 1).

Tomb of Alfons Dalma

criticism

Dalma's early journalistic career for propaganda papers of the fascist Ustasha regime (such as its central organ Hrvatski Narod ) was repeatedly the subject of criticism. This is said to have led to his dismissal as ORF editor-in-chief in 1974.

Publications

  • Background to the Berlin crisis , Condor Verlag, Karlsruhe 1962
  • De Gaulle, the Germans, Europe , Condor-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1962
  • Birthplaces of Central Europe. A documentation , TR-Verlags-Union, Munich 1993

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literature

  • Bruno Jahn: The German-language press: A biographical-bibliographical handbook . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-096157-7 , p. 192 .
  • Fritz Hausjell , Oliver Rathkolb : "What our time needs above all is a spirit of reconciliation, of the national community". A contribution to the biography of the journalist Alfons Dalma. In: Medien und Zeit , Volume 4, No. 1/89.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ derstandard.at: "Buschklepper" and Mussolini as humanists , text from April 22, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Dalma, Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tomičić, Stjepan (real name); Tomičić, Stipe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian-Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Otočac , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1999
Place of death Vienna , Austria