Werner Stanzl

Werner Stanzl (born April 5, 1941 in Mödling , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian journalist and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Stanzl began his career in 1962 as a junior at Reuters London. In 1965 he became an editor at Stern in Hamburg and in 1967, with the broadcasting reform, he joined Gerd Bacher's team at ORF television in Vienna. As a so-called rover, he reported from all parts of Europe, primarily from and about Germany, England and Scandinavia .

Werner Stanzl wrote television history with his multi-part documentary People's Republic of Prussia (1969) after he had succeeded in obtaining a filming permit for ORF and his team as the first western television broadcaster in the GDR . His documentation Polarka, the deployment plans of the Soviets for the occupation of Austria , triggered an international press and a special cabinet meeting of the Kreisky II federal government . The resignation of Defense Minister Karl Lütgendorf was called for. Chancellor Kreisky indicated to a few journalists that the TV man was in the CIA service and that the CIA had given him access to General Jan Šejna , who had fled to the West and who was the highest-ranking defector of the Warsaw Pact at the time of the Cold War , who in turn was in charge of the deployment plans the camera Stanzls commented in detail.

At that time, Stanzl was an editor at profil . The first copy of the documentation appeared in the news magazine (profile title 4/1974). From 1975 Stanzl works as a freelance journalist. His freelance journalistic activity was characterized by particularly good contacts with the members of Charter 77 in Prague , in particular with Václav Havel , Pavel Kohout and their closest colleagues.

In 1989 Stanzl became an editor in the founding editorial team of Standard and Oscar Bronner's husband in Bonn and Brussels . He reported on the process of the two Germans becoming unified and, from Moscow, on the coup against Gorbachev and the end of the Soviet Union. In 1992, Stanzl took over the domestic policy department. Since 1995, Stanzl has been living in seclusion in Carinthia , restricting himself to guest commentary in British, German and Austrian print media and working on a volume of short stories.

In 2015 his first work, the crime novel Execution, was published by Styria-Verlag (Vienna, Graz, Klagenfurt).

Publications

• "Execution - Crime", Styria, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-222-13499-9
• "Backers - Commissario Vossis Second Case", Styria, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-222-13521-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.wienerzeitung.at/mUNGEN/gastkommentare/26091_Ein-GAU-als-Wendpunkt.html
2. ↑ Manfried Rauchsteiner (Ed.): Between the blocks: NATO, Warsaw Pact and Austria (= Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek [Ed.]: Series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. -Wilfried-Haslauer library . band 36 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78469-2 , pp. 310 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ http://www.wienerzeitung.at/mUNGEN/gastkommentare/396196_Fekter-die-Perlenketten-und-das-Schwein.html
4. ↑ Execution ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.