Oscar Bronner

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(editor, publisher, painter)
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Born14 January 1943
Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (Now Israel)
NationalityAustrian
EthnicityJewish
ParentsGerhard Bronner
Attended all Bilderbergs from 2005 to 2015.

Oscar Bronner is an Austrian-Jewish newspaper publisher. From being a modestly successful painter in exile in New York, he somehow managed to find the wherewithal to found the Austrian newspaper Der Standard in 1988, which right away became a "leading newspaper" based on the model of the New York Times. He attended every Bilderberg meeting from 2005 until 2015.

Biography

Bronner was born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, on 14 January 1943. He is the eldest son of Austrian cabaret artist Gerhard Bronner, who escaped Austria after the 1938 Anscluss. In 1948, at the age of five, he returned with his father to Austria. Oscar Bronner worked as a lighting technician and assistant director in his father's theater, as a volunteer for the Arbeiter-Zeitung and the tabloid Express. He frequented Café Hawelka, where he got to know Karl Schwarzenberg and Kurt Moldovan.[1]

In 1970, Bronner launched the monthly economic journal trend and news magazine profil.[2][3] 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 the US.[4]

He returned to Vienna in 1986 and in 1988 founded[How?] the national daily newspaper Der Standard, of which he remains publisher as of 2023[3][5]

In May 2014, Bronner left the board of Der Standard.[6]

Opinions

In 2018, on the right-populist FPÖ getting into government: "A party that is amicably linked with various other parties and governments in which illiberal democrats or autocrats are active. A party that has concluded a cooperation agreement with the Russian ruling party and now controls all the intelligence services of our country. One should not be surprised that the freedom of the press is considered endangered."[7]

In 2009, the Viennese communication scientist Fritz Hausjell said that the media industry would be well advised, after the cases of Otto Schulmeister (who was exposed as an an CIA agent) and Helmut Zilk, (Czech intelligence, later CIA), to work through the Cold War years in a broader context. "Otherwise, the general suspicion may arise that the entire industry has been infiltrated by this or that secret service." Editor Oscar Bronner said that the reappraisal of the role of the media was "certainly a sensible thing", and a corresponding initiative will definitely have to be discussed internally in the Association of Austrian Newspapers.[8]

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20055 May 20058 May 2005Germany
Rottach-Egern
The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests
Bilderberg/20068 June 200611 June 2006Canada
Ottawa
54th Bilderberg, held in Canada. 133 guests
Bilderberg/200731 May 20073 June 2007Turkey
Istanbul
The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey
Bilderberg/20085 June 20088 June 2008US
Virginia
Chantilly
The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Bilderberg/200914 May 200917 May 2009Greece
Vouliagmeni
The 57th Bilderberg
Bilderberg/20103 June 20106 June 2010Spain
Hotel Dolce Sitges
Barcelona
The 122 guests met in the Hotel Dolce Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.
Bilderberg/20119 June 201112 June 2011Switzerland
Hotel Suvretta
St. Moritz
59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests
Bilderberg/201231 May 20123 June 2012US
Virginia
Chantilly
The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there.
Bilderberg/20136 June 20139 June 2013Watford
UK
The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Bilderberg/201429 May 20141 June 2014Denmark
Copenhagen
Marriott Hotel
The 62nd Bilderberg, with 136 guests, held in Copenhagen
Bilderberg/201511 June 201514 June 2015Austria
Telfs-Buchen
The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria
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