Egon Michael Salzer

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Egon Michael Salzer (born July 17, 1908 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died unknown) was an Austro-British-Swedish journalist.

Life

Egon Michael Salzer was the son of Helene Salzer and Richard Salzer, who worked as a shipping agent in Vienna. His mother saved herself from the German persecution of Jews to England, his sister Valerie to Palestine. Egon Michael Salzer studied art history, philosophy and medicine at the University of Vienna and also attended the Vienna University of Technology . From 1926 he worked as a freelance journalist and in 1929 went to London as a foreign correspondent for the newspapers Neues Wiener Journal , Prager Tagblatt and Pester Lloyd . In 1930 he made his first radio broadcast on the Breslau broadcaster . Salzer married Gwendolen Bak, a British woman, in 1932, and they had a son. He married Britta Markus (1924-2010) from Sweden in 1947 and they had a daughter and a son. He also wrote for Swiss newspapers, while the Reich German newspapers no longer accepted his articles after the Nazis took power in 1933.

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the Wiener Journal ended its collaboration for racist reasons. Salzer became a British citizen in 1938 and had to stay afloat by contributing to The Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard . In 1939 he went to Paris as a correspondent for the Daily Sketch . He returned to England during the German attack on France in May 1940. In Paris and London he met the Austrian and German emigrants and conducted interviews with them, such as a “chat” with Stefan Zweig .

In the fall of 1940 he volunteered for the Royal Air Force and was initially only used as a simple soldier and then as a war correspondent with the rank of Squadron Leader ( Major ) in theaters of war in North Africa, Italy, Yugoslavia, India and Burma. At the beginning of 1945 he was stationed in Belgium and Denmark. After the German surrender, he evaluated German files on the effects of the air war . He was offered a leading position in building up the press in occupied Austria, which he declined in view of the many relatives murdered there in the Holocaust.

After his discharge from the army, he worked from November 1945 as a correspondent for the Toronto Star at the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals . Salzer moved to Sweden in 1947 as a correspondent for Time and Life magazines , The Observer and the Manchester Guardian and settled in Lidingö . From 1950 he wrote again in the German language. He now also worked for German radio stations, television programs, the newspapers Die Welt , Die Zeit , Weltwoche and wrote for the magazine Epoca . From 1968 he also worked again for an Austrian newspaper, Die Presse in Vienna. Salzer published two travel books about Scandinavia for German readers. He wrote over ten short introductions to the series of works by the Nobel Prize winners in literature published by the Nobel Prize Foundation.

Fonts (selection)

  • “We don't need your filth anymore. Heil Hitler! ”The end as a London correspondent. In: Medien & Zeit , 2/1988
  • Scandinavia . Text: E. Michael Salzer. Photos: Walter Imber. Lausanne: Mondo Publishing, 1979
  • Smörgasbord: Feasts with Swedish delicacies . Munich: Heyne, 1978
  • German sense of guilt , article in Toronto Star , November 19, 1945. Translated from English by: Steffen Radlmaier (Ed.): The Nuremberg Learning Process. Of war criminals and star reporters . Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 2001, p. 34ff.
  • Chat with Stefan Zweig. In: Ulrich Weinzierl (Ed.): Stefan Zweig - Triumph and Tragik. Articles, diary notes, letters . Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1992, pp. 116-118

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.), International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1015
  • Ernst Schmiederer: Today I don't belong anymore , Interview, in: profil , March 7, 1988, pp. 96–99
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1175 (entry 8980).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Britta Markus-Salzer ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2015 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. , at stho  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stho.se
  2. ↑ Thomas Salzer , website
  3. ↑ Steffen Radlmaier (Ed.): The Nuremberg learning process. Of war criminals and star reporters . Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 2001, p. 359
personal data
SURNAME Salzer, Egon Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-British-Swedish journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century