Hella Pick

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Hella Henrietta Pick CBE (born April 24, 1929 in Vienna ) is an Austro - British journalist.

Life

Born into a Jewish middle-class family , Pick grew up with his mother from the age of three after her parents divorced. After Austria's "annexation" to the National Socialist German Reich , she was able to escape to England in a children's transport in 1939 , her mother followed three months later. Pick attended school in the Lake District and studied political science at the London School of Economics .

In 1957, Pick began her journalistic work as a freelancer for the BBC, among others, and from 1961 worked for The Guardian newspaper as a correspondent for the United Nations and in Washington as well as in the foreign affairs department.

In Germany it was mainly through their performances at the International Frühschoppen of Werner Höfer and in the press club known.

Works

  • Simon Wiesenthal . A biography. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg, 1997
  • And what role does Austria play? Kremayr & Scheriau, 1999
  • Guilty Victim - Austria from the Holocaust to Haider. IBTauris & Co Ltd., 2000

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b I belong nowhere and everywhere. In: throughmyeyes.org.uk. Imperial War Museum , 2008, archived from the original on November 10, 2013 ; accessed on June 9, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Who is Who. Hella PICK, CBE. In: www.alpbach.org. European Forum Alpbach , accessed on June 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Pick, Hella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pick, Hella Henrietta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna