Eric Frey

This article describes the Austrian journalist Eric Frey. For the former actor, see Erik Frey .

" Dialog im Kamptal " with Hannes Swoboda , Emil Brix and Eric Frey (2020)

Eric Frey (* 1963 in Vienna ) is an Austrian publicist and political scientist . He is editor of the Viennese daily newspaper Der Standard and was the Austria correspondent for the London business newspaper Financial Times and the London business magazine The Economist . Frey is also a lecturer at Webster University Vienna .

Live and act

Eric Frey was born in Vienna in 1963 to Jewish parents who had escaped National Socialism by fleeing. In 1981 he went to the United States to study Public Affairs ( International Relations ) at Princeton University . In 1986 he completed a master's thesis on German-German relations in the 1980s.

A career as a journalist followed. From 1986 to 1990 Frey was a reporter and most recently office manager of AP-Dow Jones News Service in Frankfurt . In 1991 he switched to the Vienna daily Der Standard . During this time, in 1993, he wrote his first non-university book - a treatise on Bill Clinton's election campaign , considering Arthur M. Schlesinger's cycle theory .

At Standard , he was promoted to head of foreign policy in 1996 . In 1998, he moved to the economic department in this role . Since 2002 Frey has been one of the chiefs of the service and an economic policy commentator.

After the turn of the millennium, Frey began a doctorate in political science in Vienna . His dissertation was written in 2003/2004 in New Orleans , where he was visiting professor at the Marshall Plan Chair for Austrian Studies at the University of New Orleans from 2001 to 2002 . It dealt again with contemporary history and again with the policies of Bill Clinton, this time with his trade policy. However, Frey received his doctorate from the University of Vienna.

In 2015 Frey was awarded the Horst Knapp Prize .

Positions

Bitcoins

Frey commented on Bitcoin as a virtual monetary unit in December 2013:

“The anonymity of bitcoins is particularly valued by those who break any laws. [...] Bitcoins are cleverly designed and technologically ingenious, but economically pure nonsense. [...] The right time for a ban is now, before this fashion spreads further - and the possible damage increases. "

- Eric Frey : "Bitcoins should be banned." In: Der Standard from December 7, 2013.

Ukraine crisis in 2014

In a comment in the August 2014 newspaper Der Standard , Frey wrote about the 2014 crisis in Ukraine :

“Negotiations with Putin are pointless at the moment, because he openly lies in the face of every interlocutor. Somehow he has to be made aware that he has miscalculated [...]. That will probably only be possible with a further tightening of the sanctions up to the breaking off of all economic relations with Moscow, as well as with direct military aid for Kiev. Arms deliveries, the stationing of NATO troops in Ukraine and US air strikes against separatist positions and Russian supply lines - all options are on the table these days. "

- Eric Frey : “The West must stop Putin.” In: Der Standard from August 28, 2014.

On November 24, 2014 Frey took part in a panel discussion on the Austrian political program Puls 4 News “Pro and Contra” on the Ukraine conflict , in which he described the well-known German stockbroker Dirk Müller as a Russian propagandist because of his description of American interests in Ukraine and the former Green MEP Johannes Voggenhuber accused of being inhuman towards the Ukrainian people. In return, Dirk Müller referred to Frey as a warmonger and arsonist on this program.

Book publications

• Clinton's America - President of a New Generation. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-8218-0430-0 .
• Feuding Friends: US-European Trade Relations in the Clinton Era 1992-2000. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2004, ISBN 978-3-631-51817-5 (= European University Studies Series 31, Political Science. Volume 496; also dissertation at the University of Vienna ).
• Black Book USA. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-8218-5574-5 .
• The Hitler Syndrome: about dealing with evil in world politics. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-8218-5615-5 .

as editor

• Politics today, practice tomorrow : judicial policy and notarial services in Austria and the EU [20. European Notary Days 2008]. Manz, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-214-08938-2 (= series of publications by the Austrian notary's office , volume 42).

in other publications

• World's Best Newspapers. In: Gernot Bauer , Hans Besenböck, Emil Bobi, Erna Cuesta, Fritz Dittlbacher, Harald Fidler (eds.): How do I become a journalist? Paths to the dream job. Lit, Vienna / Berlin / Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0466-4 / ISBN 978-3-7000-0687-9 (in Austria).
• How we lived . Viennese Jews remember their 20th century, edited by Tanja Eckstein and Julia Kaldori, Mandelbaum, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85476-278-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Baum: The wrong lessons from history. (Book review), Deutschlandradio , June 29, 2005
2. ^ Perceptions of Americans abroad , Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW), November 2, 2005
3. ↑ Previous Chairholders, The Marshall Plan Anniversary Chair in Austrian Studies ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 13, 2014  
4. ↑ derStandard.at - Eric Frey awarded the Horst Knapp Prize . Article dated May 23, 2016, accessed May 24, 2016.
5. ↑ Eric Frey awarded for 2015 . Retrieved May 24, 2016.
6. ↑ Eric Frey: Bitcoins should be banned. Der Standard , December 7, 2013, accessed December 8, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Eric Frey: The West must stop Putin. Der Standard , August 28, 2014, accessed November 26, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Ice Age between Russia and Europe, is a new cold war looming? . Puls 4 News “Pros and Cons” from November 24, 2014. Accessed on November 25, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Eric Frey  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Eric Frey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Panel discussion and portrait of Eric Frey on the occasion of the book presentation Das Hitler Syndrome in the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue (PDF; 185 kB; August 12, 2005)