Franz Trescher

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Franz Trescher (born September 1, 1909 in Vienna ; † August 20, 1980 there ) was an Austrian poet and journalist.

Life

After a commercial apprenticeship, Franz Trescher came to journalism through Friedrich Austerlitz . Between 1928 and 1934 he worked as a freelancer for the daily newspapers Arbeiter-Zeitung and the Tagblatt. He wrote political articles, glosses, feature sections and short stories. He also published articles in German newspapers, for example in Vorwärts , the central organ of German social democracy . At the International Socialist Youth Meeting in 1929, he and Bruno Schönlank created the play Spring Mystery for the Raimund Theater . In 1933 he was a lecturer at the first authors' evening of the Association of Socialist Writers , to which he also belonged.

After February 1934 he could no longer publish. From 1938 he was an accountant in a car dealership and employee of an insurance company until September 1940. Until December 1941 he was an unskilled laborer at Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in Steyr . After that he had to join the Wehrmacht and for a few months in 1945 he was taken prisoner by the US .

After 1945 he worked again as a freelancer for the Arbeiter-Zeitung and for the Upper Austrian News . In November 1945 he became editor of the Wiener Bildwoche , which was to succeed the social democratic magazine Der Kuckuck . According to the obituary of the Arbeiter-Zeitung of August 26, 1980, he "played an active part in building the socialist press after 1945". He later became a board member of the journalists ' union (now GPA-DJP ) and head of the weekly newspapers and magazines section .

plant

  • 100 years of Jupiter, mutual insurance company, Vienna: 1869-1969 , Vienna 1969

literature

  • Fritz Hausjell : Journalists Against Democracy or Fascism. Part 2., Frankfurt a. M. 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The international youth meeting in Vienna in: Tagblatt, July 16, 1929, page 7
  2. ^ Franz Trescher died in: Arbeiter-Zeitung, August 26, 1980, page 2
personal data
SURNAME Trescher, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1980
Place of death Vienna