Otto Klambauer

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Otto Klambauer (* 1949 in Perg ; † November 4, 2013 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian and journalist .

Life

Klambauer came from Upper Austria . He studied history at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna . During this time he was also the guitarist of the Austropop band Misthaufen . In 1978 he was at Ludwig Jedlicka with the dissertation The USIA production units of the Dr. phil. PhD. He took a revisionist approach; With his pioneering work on Soviet economic policy in Austria, Klambauer corrected uncritical, simplistic and mystifying descriptions. Manfred Fink evaluates his abridged and revised article, An overview of the development and organization of the USIA group , published in the studies and research from the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies , “more as an overview than as a scientific study”.

In 1979 Klambauer became editor of the daily newspaper Kurier in Vienna, where he learned the profession of journalist under the foreign policy department head Heinz Nussbaumer . He was then editor-in-chief of the Online-Kurier and chief editor-in-chief for contemporary history . At the Kurier he was responsible for interviews (including with Gerhart Riegner ) and reports, and corresponding series were created. For his volume, Der Kalte Krieg in Österreich , published by Ueberreuter in 2000 , he also held talks with contemporary witnesses such as Anton Benya , Ludwig Steiner , Franz Olah and the Austrian Federal Chancellors who were still alive . According to Stefan Karner , he took a position with his "numerous publications on essential questions of Austrian post-war development".

In 1984 he was awarded the state prize for journalistic achievements in the interests of national intellectual defense .

Klambauer was married and the father of two children.

Publications

  • with Ernst Bezemek : The USIA companies in Lower Austria. History, organization, documentation (= studies and research from the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies . Vol. 5). Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies, Vienna 1983.
  • The Cold War in Austria. From the Third Man to the Fall of the Iron Curtain . Ueberreuter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8000-3759-9 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Doctoral Dissertations on the History of Austria from 1520 to the Present . In: Austrian History Yearbook , 8 (1972), pp. 232-254, here: p. 253.
  2. ↑ Arno Einwitschläger: American economic policy in Austria, 1945-1949 (= Böhlaus Zeitgeschichtliche Bibliothek . Vol. 6). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1986, ISBN 3-205-08814-X , p. 15.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Mueller : The Soviet occupying power in Austria: state of research, sources and questions . In: Zeitgeschichte 28 (2001) 2, 114–129, here: p. 116.
  4. ^ Manfred Fink : Klambauer / Bezemek: The USIA companies in Lower Austria . In: Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchiv 38 (1985), pp. 538–540, here: p. 539.
  5. ^ Conrad Seidl : Survival at the interface of east and west . In: Der Standard , March 31, 2000, p. 37.
  6. ↑ Stefan Karner : There can be no talk of silence . In: Der Standard , September 12, 2009, p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Klambauer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Perg
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2013
Place of death Vienna