Andreas Reischek (journalist)

Andreas Reischek (born August 11, 1892 in Klosterneuburg , † August 13, 1965 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist .

Life

Andreas Reischek was born in Klosterneuburg as the son of the explorer, ethnographer and ornithologist Andreas Reischek . After his father worked at the Upper Austrian State Museums , he probably lived in Linz . After his father's death, he published on his father's research and gave numerous lectures. This gave him access to RAVAG in 1925 , where he was given a permanent position from 1929, where he continued to expand radio with the then director Rudolf Henz . During the Second World War in April 1945, the radio facility was relocated to Bad Aussee , where the Red-White-Red broadcasting group was founded after the war . In 1947 Andreas Reischek became program director at the broadcaster in Linz. Upper Austria .

Andreas Reischek was editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Der neue Pflug , where he published poems by the still unknown poet Josef Weinheber . He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Recognitions

• Naming of the Upper Austrian Radio Prize with the Andreas Reischek Prize

Publications

• (Ed.): Dying World. Twelve years of research in New Zealand. Estate of Andreas Reischek (ethnographer), 1924; Aotearoa - land of the long white cloud. Twelve years of research in New Zealand. Reprint, Severus Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86347-222-1 .
• Caesar, the friend of the New Zealand explorer , 1928.
• Ihaka Reiheke, the Maori chief from Austria , 1949.
• White Maori chief , 1955.

Web links

• Radio portrait of Andreas Reischek in the Ö1 series "Chroniclers, Reporters, Enlighteners" from 2003
• Entry on Andreas Reischek (journalist) in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grave site Andreas Reischek , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, group 9, group extension B, row 13, no.25.