Roman Schliesser

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"Adabei" Roman Schliesser (born June 7, 1931 in Vienna ; † October 7, 2015 there ) was an Austrian society journalist and columnist .

Life

Schliesser was born in 1931 as the son of a laborer in Vienna- Floridsdorf . After living in East Berlin for a short time , he learned the job of a reporter back in Vienna in the local editorial office of the tabloid Express . At the beginning of the 1960s (according to another source as early as 1957; Reyer 2012), while still working for the Express, he soon got access to the artists. Schliesser invented his pseudonym and with his column of the same name became “ Adabei ” (“a Viennese dialect term for someone who does not belong, but is 'there too'”; Reyer 2012). In 1966 he moved to the Kronen Zeitung , the largest daily newspaper in Austria, and was a pillar of reporting there until 1993. For a total of 47 years he commented, among other things, on matters of cultural life. Because of his occasional sharp-tonguedness, he was widely read and widely feared. After his age-related retirement from the crown , he switched to the daily newspaper Kurier and wrote a series for the Kurier-Freizeit in which he reported on his "exciting life in high society". Schliesser described himself several times as a “human reporter” (Reyer 2012; Bischofberger 2015). As his "Adabei" successor at the Krone , Michael Jeannée took over the column.

A dissertation , submitted to the University of Applied Arts , dealt with the phenomenon of the "Adabei" (Schenker, Vienna 1988). Accordingly, the most prominent celebrities he mentioned in the Adabei column - in that order - were Franz Antel , Curd and Udo Juergens , Bruno Kreisky , Helmut Zilk and Herbert von Karajan .

In addition to his journalistic work, Schliesser was also active as a screenwriter , for example for the Austrian crime film The Black Cobra, shot in 1963 . In 2006 he published an illustrated biography of the Austrian film producer Karl Spiehs .

At the age of 75, "Adabei" Schliesser withdrew completely into private life and summed up: "Today's scene is no longer my world" and explained this with "his increasing alienation from the increasingly loud headlines about would-be people Celebrities ”. In 2011 he married "his last great love" named "Bonny" in his first marriage.

reception

“No one was as close to the stars as Roman. They had him flown to Rome, New York and Tokyo for interviews and home stories. Sophia Loren , Clark Gable , Joan Collins , Curd Jürgens - he was on you with the greats of the world without being ' messed with ' with them .
[…]
'Adabei' became a legend in Austria as the founder of social journalism and set high standards. He made artists prominent at the time, and he had the power to punish them with ignorance. Sometimes he made one of his dreaded flash judgments: 'She is not the prototype of a princess,' he wrote of Stéphanie von Monaco , 'more of a prolotype!' He called himself a 'human reporter'. "

- Conny Bischofberger : Obituary

“ Clark Gable , Joan Collins or Roger Moore - he asked them all for interviews. Roman Schliesser was present at André Heller's wedding with Erika Pluhar and was sitting next to Curd Jürgens in London when he heard from his lawyer on the phone that the divorce of his fourth marriage had been finalized.
[...]
But not all celebrities always talked about him well. When he reported about a 'Watschen affair' by Curd Jürgens, he ceased all contact with him for three years. […] Another time, 'Adabei' wrote that Frank Sinatra had put his fee of one million schillings in a suitcase after a concert in the Wiener Stadthalle and had fled to the USA without paying taxes.

Most celebrities, however, loved "Adabei" because it was only through his regular reporting that he had given them real prominence.
[...]
But Roman Schliesser was more than a reporter. He wrote about high society until he was part of it himself. "

- Georg Markus : Obituary

Works

literature

  • Society columnist Adabei: Da Roman and his Hawara. In: profile ; No. 3, 1972, pp. 56f
  • Hans Dichand : Kronen Zeitung. The story of a success. Vienna 1977, p. 350.
  • Peter Eppel, Heinrich Lotter: Documentation on contemporary Austrian history, 1955–1980 . Vienna 1982, p. 503.
  • Monika Schenker: "ADABEI". The cultural history of a gossip column. A quantitative analysis of the social column of the "Neue Kronenzeitung" with a focus on the cultural level. Dissertation at the University of Applied Arts , Vienna 1988.
  • Cordula Reyer : Everything used to be richer. Interview with Roman Schliesser. In: Die Welt , issue 30, July 22, 2012, p. 16 ( article online ).
  • Georg Markus : “Adabei” Roman Schliesser has passed away. The legendary society reporter died at the age of 84. In: Kurier , October 7, 2015 ( article online ).

Web links

Commons : Roman Schliesser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Quoted from Conny Bischofberger: Roman Schliesser: Auf Du mit der Welt der Welt. “Adabei” legend dead. Obituary in: Kronen Zeitung , October 8, 2015. Accessed October 31, 2015.
  2. ↑ Adieu! “Adabei” legend Roman Schliesser has passed away. Kronen Zeitung , October 7, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  3. ^ "Adabei" legend Roman Schliesser has died. In: Vienna. ORF .at, October 7, 2015. Accessed October 31, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Georg Markus in his obituary in the Kurier, October 7, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Schliesser, Roman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adabei (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian society journalist and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2015
Place of death Vienna