Karl Pfeifer

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Karl Pfeifer, 2008

Karl Pfeifer (22 August 1928 – 6 January 2023) was an Austrian journalist.

Life

Karl Pfeifer was born to a Jewish family on 22 August 1928 in

Zionist youth organization Hashomer Hatzair decided to evacuate Pfeiffer to Palestine together with a group of other young refugees. He lived in a kibbutz there and from 1946 served in Palmach, the elite troop of the underground Jewish army Haganah, whose members subsequently became part of the Israel Defense Forces
. Pfeiffer left Israel in 1951.

In 1982 Pfeiffer became the editor of "Gemeinde", the official organ of the Viennese Jewish community. In this function he wrote in an article in 1995, that the political scientist Werner Pfeifenberger had used "Nazi tones" in the yearbook of the freedom party academy. Karl Pfeifer said that Pfeifenberger had played the

Republic of Austria
was convicted and required to pay € 5,000 compensation for the failure of the courts.

From the early 1990s, Pfeifer worked as a Vienna correspondent for Israeli radio and as a freelance journalist for the London monthly

anti-fascist magazine Searchlight and the Budapest weekly newspaper Hetek
. Pfeifer also belonged to the board of trustees of the documentation archive of Austrian resistance.

In 2008, Mary Kreutzer produced a documentary for the Society for Critical Research on Antisemitism about his life entitled Zwischen allen Stühlen.Lebenswege des Journalisten Karl Pfeifer.[1] It was shown in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Israel. In 2011, the film was shown in the presence of Karl Pfeifer at the Austrian Institute of the Minnesota University in Minneapolis and at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.

Pfeifer died on 6 January 2023, at the age of 94.[2]

Merits

References

  1. ^ "English (Zwischen Allen Stühlen - Lebenswege des Journalisten Karl Pfeifer)". Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Karl Pfeifer ist tot". Ruhrbarone. 7 January 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023.

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