Oscar Bronner

Oscar Bronner

Oscar Bronner, born 14 January 1943, is an Jewish Austrian newspaper publisher and painter.

Bronner was born in Haifa, Israel the eldest son of Austrian cabaret artist Gerhard Bronner.

In 1970 Bronner founded the monthly economic journal trend and news magazine profil. In 1974 trend and profil were sold and Bronner emigrated to New York, where he lived as a painter, having several exhibitions both in Europe and America.

He returned to Vienna in 1986 and in 1988 he founded the national daily newspaper Der Standard, of which he remains publisher.

In 2008, Austrian journalists Klaus Stimeder and Eva Weissenberger wrote a biography on Bronner (so far only published in German), entitled "Trotzdem. Die Oscar-Bronner-Story".[1]


References

  1. ^ http://www.ueberreuter.at/index.php?isbn=9783800038886&phd=3
This article incorporates information from the revision as of 23 September 2007 of the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.