Hubertus Czernin

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Hubertus Czernin (born January 17, 1956 in Vienna ; † June 10, 2006 there ) was an Austrian journalist and publisher .

Life

Hubertus Czernin was the youngest of five sons of Felix Czernin (1902–1968) and his second wife Franziska, née Mayer-Gunthof (1926–1987). Czernin's half-brother Paul (* 1934) comes from his father's first marriage (1933–1950) to the Italian Anna Leopoldina, née Contessa Ceschi a Santa Croce (* 1914; divorced 1950), who came from the former German princely house of Ysenburg and Büdingen through her mother .

Coming from a former noble industrial family, he felt himself “politically shaped by Prague and Paris 1968 ”.

After studying history, art history and political science, he worked as a journalist from 1979, initially as a freelancer for the weekly press and from 1984 for the news magazine profil . In 1986 he was instrumental in uncovering the war past of Kurt Waldheim , who was running for the office of Federal President (" Waldheim Affair "). In 1992 he became the profile editor.

In 1995, Czernin and Josef Votzi were about to give notice because the owner representative Christian Konrad had not been informed in advance of the publication of the abuse allegations against Hans Hermann Groër . After the appearance of an issue of profil , on the front page of which an image montage showed the head of the then Chancellor Franz Vranitzky on a naked body, Czernin was dismissed in 1996 despite protests from the editorial team and political parties such as the Greens , the Liberal Forum and the FPÖ .

From 1998 to 1999 he was the managing partner of Fritz Molden Verlag. In 1999 he founded the Czernin Verlag , in which he devoted himself to otherwise neglected and controversial topics based on the Austrian cultural and intellectual history. In the context of this activity, his work focused in particular on art theft by the National Socialists during the time of National Socialist rule in Austria and the restitution of art goods.

In 2005 he started the question of why several paintings by Gustav Klimt from the Austrian State Gallery Belvedere, decades after the end of the Nazi regime, had still not been returned to Maria Altmann and the other heirs of the original owners dispossessed after the "Anschluss" . In the British-US-American film Die Frau in Gold , released on this topic in 2015 , Czernin, one of the few Austrian supporters of Altmann's ultimately successful return claim, was played by Daniel Brühl ; as Olga Kronsteiner wrote, Czernin's actual importance in the Causa was reduced in favor of the role of the lawyer Schoenberg.

Hubertus Czernin suffered from chronic mastocytosis , which ultimately led to death.

family

Czernin was married to Christina (Teresa), née Szapáry (* 1958), in his first childless marriage from 1979 to 1981. From his second marriage since 1984 to Valerie, née Baratta-Dragono (* 1961), he was the father of three daughters.

On the mother's side, Czernin was a grandson of Franz Josef Mayer-Gunthof . Cardinal Christoph Schönborn called Czernin his cousin.

Publications

  • The Haider maker. (1997)
  • The book Groer. (1998)
  • The Extinction. (1998)
  • The fake. (1999)
  • Year of awakening. (2000)
  • For which I apologize for all of me. (2000 ed.)
  • The vest pocket haider. (2000, ed.)
  • What remains of Jörg Haider. (2003)
  • About silence and glossing over. (2007, posthumous)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Countess Anna Leopoldina Ceschi a Santa Croce on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Ingrid and Christian Mitterecker: Interview with Hubertus Czernin: How one wants to deliberately misunderstand a story, so to speak. E-Book 2011 ( reading sample; PDF ( memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ). "Schönborn knew that everything was right". In: Falter , Issue 21/2011 of May 25, 2011. (Abridged and slightly edited excerpt from the conversation "which the Mittereckers publish as an e-book on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Czernin's death [...].") @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ingridundchristian.at
  3. ↑ Olga Kronsteiner: Faithfulness to facts is a bad dramaturge. In: Der Standard daily newspaper , Vienna, May 29, 2015, p. 27.
  4. ↑ Thomas Trenkler: teacher and fighter for justice. In: The Standard. 4th July 2006.
  5. ↑ Christoph Schönborn: "Czernin was wrong here". In: Falter weekly newspaper , Vienna, issue 22/2011 from June 1, 2011
  6. ↑ Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien awards the Friedrich Torberg Medal APA / OTS on November 27 , 2000
personal data
SURNAME Czernin, Hubertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2006
Place of death Vienna