Karl Pfeifer
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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
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
From the early 1990s, Pfeifer worked as a Vienna correspondent for Israeli radio and as a freelance journalist for the London monthly
. 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
- 2003: Joseph Samuel Bloch Medal from the Action against anti-Semitism in Austria
- 2018 Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria in Gold
- 2022 won Simon Wiesenthal award
References
- ^ "English (Zwischen Allen Stühlen - Lebenswege des Journalisten Karl Pfeifer)". Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ^ "Karl Pfeifer ist tot". Ruhrbarone. 7 January 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023.