Oscar Bronner

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Oscar Bronner (2013)

Oscar Bronner (born January 14, 1943 in Haifa , Palestine ) is the founder of the Austrian news magazines trend and profil and publisher of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard, which he also founded .

Live and act

Youth and journalism

Oscar Bronner was born in Haifa in 1943 as the first son of the later cabaret artist Gerhard Bronner . Gerhard Bronner fled alone to Palestine as a youth after the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 because his father and brother had been interned.

In 1948 he came to Vienna by ship and train with his returning father. As a child he met Helmut Qualtinger , who worked with his father and occasionally stayed in Oscar's children's room in the apartment on Passauer Platz in the old town.

Oscar Bronner worked as a lighting technician and assistant director in his father's theater, as a trainee for the Arbeiter-Zeitung and the tabloid Express . He frequented Café Hawelka , where he became acquainted with Karel Schwarzenberg and Kurt Moldovan . His journalistic topics included the Novak case ( Eichmann's "dispatcher of death") and Nazi judges who made careers in Austria after 1945. Oscar Bronner ran an advertising agency for a short time.

Media founder and painter

In 1970 Bronner founded the business magazine trend and the news magazine profil . The courier , who then founded a business magazine himself and, as Bronner recalls, poached his team, “changed ... the strategy. I got an offer that I couldn't refuse ”. The publisher sold both magazines in 1974 and moved to New York, where he lived as a painter (several exhibitions in the United States and Europe). He associated there with the ex-Viennese Frederic Morton and Serge Sabarsky, among others .

The standard publisher and editor

In 1986 he returned to Vienna and in 1988, with the financial participation of Axel Springer AG (which no longer exists), founded the daily newspaper Der Standard , which is printed on salmon pink paper and of which he is the publisher and editor. According to his own statement, his intention was to introduce a quality newspaper such as the New York Times , the Süddeutsche Zeitung or the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , but until this lofty, long-term goal has been achieved, he is satisfied with a local competition-oriented claim: I want that the reader has more qualified information about the decisions he or she makes than would be the case without my work. I don't have any more claim.

Oscar Bronner is a regular participant of the Bilderberg Conference .

In December 2008 he refused to accept an award for his life's work given by the industry magazine Der Österreichische Journalist , as this award was also given to Krone columnist Michael Jeannée . "Since this gentleman operates a form of journalism that is diametrically opposed to my life's work, my freestyle can only be a mistake," he said .

Oscar Bronner has been married to the psychotherapist and specialist in neurology, Andrea Bronner, since 1988 and has three children. Alexander Mitteräcker, his eldest son from a previous relationship, is one of three board members at Bronner Online AG. Daughter Laura completed an internship at profil and is studying political science in Oxford.

literature

  • Klaus Stimeder , Eva Weissenberger : Nevertheless - The Oscar Bronner Story ; First edition: Ueberreuter , Vienna 2008; further editions under the title Nevertheless - Oscar Bronner. A biography. : redelsteiner dahimène edition (rde), Vienna 2013 and 2015, ISBN 978-3-9503359-0-3 (Stimeder appears as JM Stim in 2015 )

Web links

Commons : Oscar Bronner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c “In the end I was caught on fire” , conversation by Florian Klenk and Armin Thurnher with Oscar Bronner in the weekly newspaper Falter , Vienna, No. 40 of October 2, 2008, p. 27 f.
  2. ↑ Mischa Jäger and Claus Philipp: Do you know the real Oscar Bronner? In: derstandard.at. October 17, 2003, accessed April 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Der Standard: Oscar Bronner does not accept 'Journalist' award. 20./21. December 2008, p. 35
  4. ↑ Oscar Bronner. A piece of Austrian media history in quick succession. The Austrian Journalist , No. 8 + 9 2008, p. 46
personal data
SURNAME Bronner, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian newspaper editor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa