persons Fodor, Marcel

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Name Fodor, Marcel
Alternative Names
  • fictional character: Dr. Laszlo Sandor
  • ID 387
    Gender male
    Lifespan 1890-01-17 - 1977-07-01
    Professions correspondent (Q1155838), editor (Q1607826), foreign correspondent (Q18190897), radio presenter
    Collection(s)
  • Default import collection
  • Transatlantic Networks
  • webclient
  • Uri(s) https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/1_47
    Notes Covering the interwar turmoil in Central Europe, Fodor was a friend or mentor to several renowned journalists who covered the same beat, including Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, Frances Gunther, William Shirer, George Eric Rowe Gedye, H. R. Knickerbocker, Edgar Mowrer, Frederick Scheu, Robert Best and others who frequented the Stammtisch at the Café Louvre, the unofficial headquarters of foreign journalism in interwar Vienna. Best and Fodor presided at the Stammtisch, where journalists and regular visitors discussed the days news and exchanged information. Because of the relationships Fodor developed; his fluency in several languages spoken in Central Europe; and his encyclopedic knowledge of history, politics and personalities of the region, Fodor had a strong reputation among his fellow journalists. Following the Anschluss, Fodor found himself in considerable personal danger, especially because he had published details of Hitler’s ancestry, and was quickly taken across the Czech border to Bratislava by an American diplomat.

    Relations

    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    1920 1938 related >> visited Café Louvre
    1920 1938 related >> worked for/at >> was a foreign correspondent in Central Europe for The Manchester Guardian (since 1959 The Guardian)
    1920 1938 related >> worked for/at >> was a foreign correspondent in Central Europe for The Nation
    1920 1938 related >> worked for/at >> was a foreign correspondent in Central Europe for The New Republic
    1920 1938 related >> worked for/at >> was a foreign correspondent in Central Europe for The American Mercury
    related >> editor of Die Neue Zeitung
    1955 1965 related >> worked for/at >> policy director of Voice of America
    1955 1965 related >> worked for/at >> program evaluator at Voice of America
    related >> was member of the Stammtisch of foreign correspondents at the Café Louvre
    1930 established >> co-founder of Anglo-American Press Association

    Person

    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    1930 1970 related >> friendship with Gunther, John
    related >> acquainted with >> had contacts with >> mentor of Thompson, Dorothy
    related >> acquainted with >> had contacts with >> mentor of Gunther, John
    related >> friendship with >> close friendship with Thompson, Dorothy
    1922 1977 related >> in a relationship with >> married to Fodor, Marie Martha
    related >> acquainted with Schwarzwald, Eugenie
    1938 related >> was/were helped to emigrate by >> got support to emigrate (which was in the end to no avail) by Thompson, Dorothy
    1938 related >> was/were helped by >> had a lectureship in the U.S. sponsored by Thompson, Dorothy
    1938 related >> was/were helped by >> had a lectureship in the U.S. sponsored by Gunther, John
    related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with >> had intensive personal correspondence with Fulbright, James William

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1940 1944 related >> emigrated to United States of America
    related >> stayed in >> stayed in for work >> worked as journalist in Budapest
    Place of Birth Hungary
    related >> stayed in >> stayed in for work England
    related >> lived at Twin Farms, Barnard, VT
    1920 1938 related >> lived in Vienna
    1930 1938-03 related >> lived at Börsegasse 7, 1010 Vienna
    1926 1929 related >> lived at Eslarngasse 11, 1030 Vienna

    Work

    Start End Other relation type Related Work
    1937 related >> wrote >> author of Plot and Counterplot
    1940 related >> wrote >> author of The Revolution is On
    related >> appears/appeared in >> as fictionalized character The Lost City

    Label

    Label Start End Label type ISO Code
    Dr. Laszlo Sandor fictional character deu

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