Michael Stone (journalist)
Michael Stone (born Michael Kuh on October 12, 1922 in Berlin , † April 20, 1993 ) was an Austro-British journalist.
Life
Michael Kuh was the illegitimate son of Marianne Kuh (1894-1948), his grandfather Emil Kuh (1856-1912) was an important journalist and newspaper editor in Austria, his uncle Anton Kuh was a satirist. His mother married the writer Alexander Solomonica , whose genius she believed was misunderstood. She already had a daughter Sophie (Sophie Templer-Kuh) from a relationship with the psychoanalyst Otto Gross . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, the Jewish family fled Berlin to Vienna . Michael arrived in England in 1938 on a Kindertransport , followed by his mother and sister in 1939. Solomonica, who as a stateless person could not get a visa, was deported and died in the Litzmannstadt ghetto in 1942 .
After the war began, Michael Kuh was interned as an enemy alien and shipped to Canada . In 1942 he enlisted in the British Army and in 1943 changed his name to Michael Stone. He returned to Vienna as a soldier in 1945, but continued to live in England after the demobilization. He became the cultural correspondent for the Austrian newspaper Die Presse . From 1963 he worked as a journalist in West Berlin and from 1974 until his death wrote the television column On the TV screen West for the Tagesspiegel .
Fonts (selection)
- The Institute for the Blind: A fragment of a youth . Berlin: Kupfergraben, 1991
- as editor: Alexander Solomonica: Mr. Heckfisch: and other writings . Berlin: Mackensen, 1990
- Berlin: West Berlin, East Berlin and Potsdam . Munich: Prestel, 1989
- Views, insights . Berlin: Mackensen, 1988
- with Johann G Scheibner: Berlin . Lucerne: Reich, 1986
- Michael Stone; Malcolm Werner: The Computer Society . Munich: List, 1972
literature
- Martin Krist: Two forgotten authors - Alexander Solomonica and Michael Stone . In: With the accordion. Journal of the Culture of Exile and Resistance. Ed. Theodor Kramer Society . Issue 3, 1999, ISSN 1563-3438 pp. 4-6
- Siglinde Bolbecher , Konstantin Kaiser : Lexicon of Austrian exile literature. Deuticke, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-216-30548-1 , pp. 618f
- Leon Chamé: The "uncle" of the "onion fish": Michael Stone. In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 20, 2013, p. 33
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Stone in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Stone , at literaturepochen.at
- Christine-Felice Röhrs: Anneliese "Kuki" Kuhk-Stone, b. 1913 , in: Der Tagesspiegel, August 30, 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Solomonica , at ÖBL
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stone, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-British journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1993 |
| Place of death | Berlin |