Norbert Werner (journalist)

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Norbert Werner (born unknown in Laxenburg , died on June 28, 1991 in Ljubljana ) was an Austrian freelance journalist and war correspondent.

Life

He died on June 28, 1991 at the age of 23 with Nikolas Vogel at Ljubljana Airport from a rocket attack by the Yugoslav People's Army on his car. Norbert Werner and Nick Vogel were the first two journalists killed during the ten-day war in Slovenia . During the celebration of Slovenia's final entry into the Schengen area in 2008, Prime Minister Janez Janša commemorated the two dead on the Ljubljana airfield.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gustav Chalupa: War and media in the Balkans. Fischer, 2006, ISBN 978-3-895-14591-9 . P. 63.
  2. ^ A b Stjepan Malović: The People, Press, and Politics of Croatia. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, ISBN 978-0-275-96543-3 , p. 221.
  3. Focus online (January 3, 1994): War reporter - The witnesses of horror
  4. Paul Harris: Somebody else's was. Spa, 1992, ISBN 978-0-907-59042-2 . Pp. 21, 54.
  5. Address by the Slovenian Prime Minister and the President of the European Council Janez Janša on the occasion of the abolition of internal air border controls and the definitive entry of the Republic of Slovenia into the Schengen area
  6. Prime Minister Janez Janša proclaims the single Schengen area one of the foundations of freedom, cooperation and progress in the European Union. Prime Minister's website, March 31, 2008 ( Memento of August 5, 2012 in the archive.today web archive ).