Jewish-American journalist Georg Stefan Troller, who was known for his television interviews, died at the age of 103, His daughter Fenn Troller announced on Saturday in Paris. According to the DPA report, TASR reports this.
The troller, born in Austria, has done about 2,000 interviews during his lifetime and made more than 170 films about people and their life stories. This “human touch” made him a legend in journalism, perhaps the largest in post -war Germany, He writes DPA.
In his work he led interviews with celebrities such as Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman and Muhammad Ali. For example, he also confessed the paralyzed Vietnamese veteran, who was supposed to have the courage to be filmed naked in the bath, revealing his vulnerability.
People and their life stories have always been in the center of Troller’s attention. He was born in 1921 in Vienna in the Jewish family of a fur trader. In 1938, the family fled to Czechoslovakia, then to France and from there to the United States. In 1943 he was called to the US Army and helped to liberate the Dachau concentration camp. Thanks to his knowledge of German, the Americans assigned him to the interrogations of the prisoners of war.
After the war he studied theater and the scholarship in 1950 brought him to Paris Sorbonna, where he devoted himself to journalism. His career began in the 60s of the 20th century by broadcasting the program “Pariser Journal” in West German Radio with themes from Paris. Later he worked for the German public service television ZDF. He lived in France for more than 70 years.
In a long interview on the occasion of his 100th birthday for the Bavarian public service radio, he said he wanted to “dive” people to understand how they became who they are. He even called himself a “human bean” what was his way to describe the insatiable curiosity about the lives and fates of others. Closes DPA.
