David Schoenbrun

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David Franz Schoenbrun (born May 15, 1915 in New York ; † May 23, 1988 there ) was an American journalist and author.

Life

David F. Schoenbrun was born in 1915 in New York City to the jeweler Max Schoenbrun and his wife Lucy, née Cassirer . He was the grandson of Moritz Cassirer, one of the sons of the industrialist Marcus Cassirer , who emigrated to the United States in the early 20th century and met his wife Henriette, née Retfield.

David learned German from his grandfather as well as French and Spanish, and he trained at New York City College, where he graduated in 1934. After finishing school, Schoenbrun a. a. French and made a living as a language teacher for some time. In 1943 he joined the US Army and was sent to Algiers . He began his journalistic career with a weekly broadcast as a war correspondent for United Nations radio at the end of the Second World War . In 1947 he was appointed chief correspondent in Paris for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) by Edward R. Murrow and later worked throughout Europe and Vietnam as a journalist for CBS radio and television. He worked with other journalists such as Fred W. Friendly , Winston Burdette , Charles Collingwood and Douglas Edwards . During his time in Paris, he was received several times for interviews by President Charles de Gaulle . His work during the war made him one of the Murrow Boys .

In 1959 Schoenbrun received the Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award , a journalism award given by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism . In 1964, after falling out with the station's management, he left CBS and worked as a freelance journalist, teacher and author. He taught at the New School for Social Research in New York and wrote books such as The Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle (1966), which built on his longstanding connections with Charles de Gaulle , and most recently America Inside Out (1984) where he examined the relationship between the United States and the rest of the world over the past 50 years. In 1988, he died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan of a heart attack following prostate surgery.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • What's wrong with France? ("As France goes", 1957). Scherz Verlag, Stuttgart 1958.
  • Casebook of a Southern Senator . Esquire Books, Chicago 1963.
  • Vietnam . How we got in, how we got out . 5th ed. Atheneum, New York 1971, ISBN 0-689-10242-9 .
  • The three lives of Charles de Gaulle. A biography . Atheneum, New York 1966.
  • The new Israelis . Atheneum, New York 1973.
  • Thriumph in Paris. The exploits of Benjamin Franklin . Harper & Row, New 1976, ISBN 0-06-013854-8 .
  • America inside out . McGraw-Hill, New York 1984, ISBN 0-07-055473-0 .
  • Maquis. Soldiers of the night; the story of the French Resistance . Hale Books, London 1990, ISBN 0-7090-4234-5 (formerly Soldiers of the night ).

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Sigrid Bauschinger : The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CHBeck, Munich 2015; P. 447. ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Sarah Lyall: David Schoenbrun Is Dead at 73; Veteran Journalist for CBS News. New York Times , May 24, 1988; accessed on May 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Circle around the journalist Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965)
  4. ↑ a b Winner ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.journalism.columbia.edu
  5. ↑ Special Dr. from Esquire , 1963, September, pp. 103-108, 147-148.
personal data
SURNAME Schoenbrun, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoenbrun, David Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1988
Place of death new York