Otto Fielhauer

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Otto Fielhauer (1962)

Otto Magnus Fielhauer (born May 27, 1929 in Vienna ; † June 27, 1994 there ) was a journalist and author. After working for the social democratic Arbeiter-Zeitung ( AZ ), he worked for the successful tabloid Kronen-Zeitung . He wrote his column there under the pseudonym Habakkuk .

Life

From 1956 to 1958 Fielhauer was editor-in-chief of the magazine neue generation published by the Association of Austrian Socialist Students .

In 1963 Fielhauer brought the later AZ editor-in-chief Manfred Scheuch to the paper.

When US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas , Texas , in November 1963 , Fielhauer was in the United States and immediately traveled to Dallas to report for AZ . In Vorwärts-Verlag , in which the AZ appeared, he worked in the room that the party ideologist Otto Bauer had used until 1934 to write his editorials.

In 1973 the book Wiener Schmäh was published under his pseudonym Habakuk by Molden-Verlag in Vienna. Satires and humoresques , with a foreword by Fritz Muliar and illustrations by Emil. Fielhauer died on June 27, 1994 and was buried on July 7 in Vienna, at the Döblinger Friedhof (group 37, row 2, number 25).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ÖNB card catalog: Fielhauer, Otto (1929 - June 27, 1994) (date of death), accessed on August 10, 2019
  2. ↑ Entry in the electronic journal catalog of the Austrian National Library
  3. ↑ Manfred Scheuch celebrates his 80th birthday. The July 31, 2009 standard .
  4. ^ Daily newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung , Vienna, No. 273, 23 November 1963, p. 1
  5. ↑ detto, No. 274, November 24, 1963, p. 1
  6. ^ History of the Arbeiter-Zeitung , section After the State Treaty , in the archive of the paper
  7. ^ The house on the Rechten Wienzeile , section high point and decline , on the website of the Association for the History of the Labor Movement
  8. ↑ (= Martin Menzl; ISBN 3217005597 )
  9. ↑ Friedhöfe Wien: Grabsuche (burial place and date), accessed on August 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Fielhauer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fielhauer, Otto Magnus; Habakuk (pseudonym); Schnoferl (pseudonym); Glass burner (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1994
Place of death Vienna