Richard Nimmerrichter

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Richard Nimmerrichter (1954)

Richard Nimmerrichter ( December 31, 1920 in Vienna – February 6, 2022 in Neustift am Walde , Vienna) was an Austrian journalist and columnist .

Life

Nimmerrichter was a soldier in the German Wehrmacht from 1940 to 1944 and a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946. After his return to Vienna, he began his career as a journalist with the American Intelligence Service (AND) of the US occupying power. As a result, he joined the United Press , a private news agency. Nimmerrichter also worked for the Wiener Illustrierte . Other journalistic stations were the world on Monday , where he held the post of sports and editor-in-chief until 1962 , and the world press . In 1959 he had the small TV program Ein Wort zum Sport on ORFwritten, which was broadcast in the nine-part series Déjà-vu on the topic "45 years of television in Austria" (2000 and 2001). All contributions were compiled by Thaddäus Podgorski junior, moderated by the former General Manager Thaddäus Podgorski senior and studio guests. From the early 1960s, Nimmerrichter wrote for the Kronen-Zeitung .

Columnist for the Kronen-Zeitung

Richard Nimmerrichter is best known for his daily column in the Kronen-Zeitung , published under the pseudonym Staberl , a character from 19th-century Viennese Volkstheater. Between 1964 and 2001 it appeared - apart from two exceptions - without interruption. From July 2011, Nimmerrichter worked again for the newspaper. The then professor at the Institute for Journalism Maximilian Gottschlich (* 1948) saw this very critically in an interview in Die Presse . Contrasting was the view that Nimmerrichter gave as a self-image in an interview with the German newspaper Junge Freiheit in 2000.

Nimmerrichter was convicted several times because of the content of the columns. On September 30, 1992, he wrote about the president of the Israelite religious community , Paul Grosz : "Anyone who survived Herr Hitler will also survive Herr Grosz." The court regarded this as an insult . In all, Nimmerrichter was convicted 58 times, mostly for defamation .

In 2003, Florian Klenk wrote in the taz : "The anti-Semitic columns of the now retired Richard Nimmerrichter, who used the alias Staberl to downplay the Holocaust, are still bad memories." In a trial by the Kronen-Zeitung against the daily newspaper Der Standard in April In 2004, the Vienna Regional Court saw a column by Nimmerrichter as proof of the truth that " anti-Semitic and racist undertones" could be heard in the Krone , as the Standard had claimed. Nimmerrichter wrote this article as part of the Waldheim affair and called the New York Times journalist Abraham Rosenthal by his real name, but then varied his name to “Rosenbaum” and “Rosenberg”. The judge saw this as a “classic method of expressing anti-Semitic emotions”.

Numerous columns by Nimmerrichter expressed his sympathy for the state of Carinthia and his friendship with its governor Jörg Haider .

A selection of Staberl's columns has been published in book form. In 1997 Insubordinate Thoughts appeared: Texts from the Kronen Zeitung and in 2001 Oh, you my Austria. Staberl stories by Richard Nimmerrichter .

reception

The author Elfriede Jelinek included numerous Staberl quotes in her play Stecken, Stab und Stangl . The statements made by Nimmerrichter about the mass extermination during the National Socialist period, which she considered trivializing, were woven into the text and linked to the central theme of the piece: the right-wing extremist attack by Franz Fuchs in Oberwart in 1995, in which four residents of a Roma settlement were killed. For a long time, the Kronen-Zeitung suspected the Roma themselves and ruled out a racist background.

In the study Populism in the Past and Present published by Richard Faber and Frank Unger in 2008 , Franz Rest and Rudi Renger describe Nimmerrichter's articles in the Kronen-Zeitung as "sarcastic columns peppered with prejudice" that "day by day use the principle of revenge of the small man”.

Harald Fidler described him in his Encyclopedia of Austria's Media World from A to Z as a "brute columnist".

Armin Thurnher , the longtime editor of the Viennese weekly newspaper Falter , described in his obituary Nimmerrichter as a cynic who became a millionaire thanks to his financial participation in the Kronen-Zeitung: “The Krone acted as if it were the avenger of all racist and xenophobic bigwig-hating caretakers, but it was made by cynical multi-millionaires. No, Staberl was not an angry citizen . He was like those cynics that exist today, who - albeit far less popular - only play with the emotions of the degraded masses for their own benefit.”

Art collection and estate

Richard Nimmerrichter was also known for his art collection, mostly watercolors by the Biedermeier painter Rudolf von Alt . He bequeathed his collection to the Lower Austrian State Museum during his lifetime , and some of his paintings can be seen in the St. Pöltner Museum. He bequeathed the rest of his estate to the “Save St. Stephen’s Cathedral ” foundation.

web links

Commons : Richard Nimmerrichter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ Former "Krone" columnist Richard Nimmerrichter died at 101. In: Kurier.at . February 6, 2022, retrieved February 7, 2022 .
  2. ↑ a b Manfred Haider: "Some negotiations resembled a performance of the Löwingerbühne". (No longer available online.) In: WirtschaftsBlatt .at. May 13, 2011, archived from the original on April 3, 2015 ; retrieved 7 February 2022 .
  3. ↑ Columnist "Staberl" writes again for the Krone. In: Wienerzeitung.at . June 23, 2011, retrieved February 7, 2022 : "The 90-year-old returns after ten years of retirement."
  4. ↑ "Hausmasters Voice" writes for "Krone" again. In: derStandard.at . June 21, 2011, accessed February 7, 2022.
  5. ↑ Isabella Wallnöfer: Gottschlich about Staberl: "His profession was malice". In: DiePresse.com . 29 June 2011, accessed 7 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "We are under no obligation to anyone". In: jf-archiv.de. Junge Freiheit , August 25, 2000, retrieved February 7, 2022.
  7. ↑ Florian Klenk: "Negro whore! Negro whore!” In: Taz.de . Die Tageszeitung, July 26, 2003, accessed February 7, 2022 .
  8. ↑ For Judge Frohner, it has been "proven to be true" that the Krone spreads "anti-Semitic and racist undertones". In: derStandard.at. August 25, 2004, accessed February 7, 2022.
  9. ↑ Close-up: "Staberl is dead". In : ORF.at. January 23, 2011, accessed February 7, 2022.
  10. ↑ Franz Rest, Rudi Renger: Mass media flagship of all Austrian populisms. In: Richard Faber, Frank Unger: Populism in the past and present. Würzburg 2008, p. 182.
  11. ↑ Engelbert Washietl:  Standard work on the media. :  European Review. Quarterly journal for politics, economics and contemporary history , year 2009, p. 141 (online at ANNO ).Template:ANNO/maintenance/eur
  12. ↑ Staberl, the most influential columnist of the 2nd Republic, is dead. He was not an angry citizen. Worse: he was a cynic. In: Falter.at . 7 February 2022, accessed 7 February 2022.
  13. ↑ Staberl died at 101. "Krone" family mourns Richard Nimmerrichter. In: Krone.at . February 6, 2022, retrieved February 7, 2022 .
personal data
SURNAME Nimmerrichter, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and columnist
BIRTH DATE December 31, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Vienna