Elisabeth Thury

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Elisabeth Thury (originally Milica von Vukobrankovics ; born March 1, 1894 in Vienna ; † June 9, 1973 ibid) was an Austrian journalist.

Vukobrankovics grew up as the daughter of a senior civil servant of Serbian origin in Vienna and Lower Austria and initially wanted to become a teacher. The family relationships were problematic, however: the aristocratic father suffered from syphilis , had fits of rage and died early, the ambitious daughter became an idiosyncratic loner. The trained elementary and community school teacher joined the family of a state school inspector during the First World War. At the end of the First World War (1918), she was charged with attempted poisoning in a circumstantial trial, but found only guilty of defamation, and was imprisoned until July 1919. As an employee of the Konegen publishing house, she came under suspicion of poisoning again a little later. In both cases, the alleged use of the poison was a suspected relationship offense in love relationships with married men. She was in custody from 1922–1923 and was sentenced in December 1923. Their trial aroused international interest. Karl Kraus was also committed to the "unhappy woman".

Vukobrankovics published the book "Weiberzelle 321" in 1924 and described her memories of her imprisonment in it. She was pardoned in early 1925. She subsequently turned to journalism under the pseudonym Elisabeth Thury . The Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung published , among other things, Thury's reports on the Vienna Palace of Justice fire (1927). Thury also wrote for social democratic media such as Die Unsatisfiedene and the Arbeiter-Zeitung . During the period of Austrofascism she worked for foreign media and agencies, especially United Press International . According to a report on the Rosary demonstration (1938), Thury was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . She is said to have helped people in the camp, but after the Nazi era there was occasional criticism of her behavior during the Third Reich.

From 1945 Thury worked again as a journalist and participated in the founding of the Austria Press Agency . The doyenne of Austrian journalism was considered a woman of great influence.

2014 wrote Susanne Ayoub for the Austrian radio a "soundscape" about Elisabeth Thury ( "Princess Vukobrankovics. The three lives of Elisabeth Thury") associated with the Dr. Karl Renner Publizistikpreis was awarded.

literature

  • Rudolf Preyer: The Thury - With poison and pen. Edition Steinbauer, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902494-48-1 .
  • Ernst Weiß : The Vukobrankovics case. Vienna 1924, new edition 1970
  • Antje Hilbig, Claudia Kajatin, Ingrid Miethe: Women and violence: interdisciplinary studies. Königshausen and Neumann, 2003, p. 100

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Fackel, Heft 640, 1924, p. 161
  2. ↑ http://oe1.orf.at/programm/396378

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personal data
SURNAME Thury, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vukobrankovics, Milica by
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1973
Place of death Vienna