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Georg Stefan Troller (born December 10, 1921, in Vienna, Austria) is an interviewer, director and screenwriter living in Paris. In 1938, Troller fled Austria from the Nazis, first to Czechoslovakia and from there on to France, where he was interned as an enemy alien.
- Fleeing The Nazis
- Return to Europe as An American GI
- A Visit to Hitler's Munich Home
- New Beginnings
- Legendary Interviews
Born on December 10, 1921 to a Jewish furrier family in Vienna, Georg Stefan Troller remembers being teased and mocked on the streets and by schoolmates. "You had to live with it, and it got worse under the Nazis," he told audiences. His father made sure he got a good education, and he made him read all the classics; Georg Stefan never forgot the w...
In 1943 he was drafted into military service by the US Army. During the advance of the Allied troops through occupied France and Nazi Germany, the German speaker provided invaluable service to the Americans. He helped translate in the interrogation of German prisoners of war. "Back then, I never heard the word 'liberation,'" Troller would often say...
In 1945 in Munich, the young GI was present when the US army searched Adolf Hitler's private residence. He pocketed a few "Nazi souvenirs" and sent them to his father in the US, who was shocked. On May 1, 1945, Troller arrived at the Dachau concentration camp, liberated by US troops, to interrogate SS officers captured there. What he encountered th...
After a short intermezzo at Radio Munich, Georg Stefan Troller worked as a reporter for Munich's Neue Zeitung newspaper. He longed for his old hometown of Vienna, however. "At that time I walked all the streets I knew, for days, for nights, to satisfy my homesickness," he once said. And he found out that "you can't regain a homeland again any more ...
In Paris in the early 1960s, Georg Stefan Troller found his calling as a TV reporter. For nine years, he was a correspondent for WDR, delighting audiences with his portraits of a side of Paris that was little known in his "Paris Journal" show. Beginning in 1971, he worked for Germany's ZDF TV broadcaster, which set the course for his life. For 22 y...
Georg Stefan Troller (* 10. Dezember 1921 in Wien) ist ein österreichisch - US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Fernsehjournalist, Drehbuchautor, Regisseur und Dokumentarfilmer, der seit 1949 seinen Lebensmittelpunkt in Frankreich hat.
At the age of 100, Georg Stefan Troller is truly a legend: He escaped the Nazis, emigrated to the US, and returned to Europe where he made a career reporting for German television, his...
Mar 19, 2022 · Georg Stefan Troller, der Autor, Regisseur und Drehbuchschreiber, wurde am 10. Dezember 2021 100 Jahre alt. Trollers Karriere als Filmemacher begann beim WDR mit der legendären Sendereihe...
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- Johann Auens Weltanschauung
May 1, 2023 · Der Dokumentarfilmer Georg Stefan Troller war eine feste Größe im deutschen Fernsehen. Seine jüdische Herkunft verschwieg er lange.
Dec 9, 2021 · Mit seinen 100 Jahren ist Georg Stefan Troller in jeder Hinsicht eine Legende. Fast ein Jahrhundert hat er miterlebt, konnte vor den Nazis in die USA flüchten, und machte in den...
