General Info | TEI
| Name | Shirer, William Lawrence |
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| Alternative Names | |
| ID | 523 |
| Gender | male |
| Lifespan | 1904-02-23 - 1993-12-28 |
| Professions | historian (Q201788), journalist (Q1930187), foreign correspondent (Q18190897), radio presenter, foreign correspondent, American, autobiographer |
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| Uri(s) |
http://https://ica.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/apis/api2/entity/523/ |
| Notes | Shirer, a prominent journalist, foreign correspondent and witness of crucial events in Central Europe, offered regular reports on Austria for the Chicago Tribune and published various pertinent essays. Shirer was the first to arrange a program combining eye-witness accounts of the historic events surrounding the Anschluss with comments from various capitals of Europe to a roundup broadcast via the CBS radio network (Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, 247). |
| References | Shirer's Papers are held by Coe College in Iowa. Ken Cuthbertson, A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2015. |
Relations
Event
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | — | related >> witnessed | the brutality of the Nazi mob directed against Jews after the Anschluss |
| 1929 | — | related >> participated in >> had | detailed insights into Viennese life through his Viennese wife |
Institution
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | — | graduated from | Coe College |
| 1925 | 1938 | visited | the Stammtisch of foreign correspondents at the Café Louvre |
| 1927 | 1932-10 | worked for/at | Chicago Tribune |
| 1929 | 1932 | visited | Café Louvre |
| 1929 | 1932 | related | Central Telegraph Office Vienna |
| 1930-06-24 | — | founding member of | Anglo-American Press Association |
| 1933 | 1934 | was editor of | New York Herald Tribune |
| 1934 | 1937-08 | worked for/at | Berlin bureau of Hearst’s Universal News Service |
| 1937 | — | worked for/at | Columbia Broadcasting System |
| — | — | related | Radio Austria AG |
Person
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Person |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-01-31 | 1970 | related >> in a relationship with >> married to | Stiberitz Shirer, Theresa |
| — | — | related >> friendship with >> close friendship with | Gunther, John |
| — | — | related >> friendship with | Thompson, Dorothy |
| — | — | related >> friendship with >> close friendship with | Lewis, Sinclair |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with | Gedye, George Eric Rowe |
| — | — | related >> friendship with >> close friendship with | Gunther, Frances |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with | Gunther, John |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with | Fodor, Marcel |
| — | — | related >> collaborated with >> colleague of | Duranty, Walter |
| — | — | related >> friendship with | Murrow, Edward R. |
Place
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929-02 | 1932-10 | related >> stayed in >> stayed in for work | Vienna |
| 1937 | 1938 | related >> stayed in | Vienna |
| 1933-02 | 1933-10 | related >> lived in | Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava, Spain |
| 1933-10 | 1934-08 | related >> stayed in >> stayed in for work | Paris |
| 1929 | 1932 | related >> lived at | Reisnerstrasse 15, 1030 Vienna |
| 1934-08 | 1937 | related >> stayed in >> stayed in for work | Berlin |
| 1952 | — | related >> visited | Vienna |
| 1938 | — | related >> lived in | Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1930 | — | related >> stayed in >> stayed in for work | India |
| 1931-02 | — | related >> stayed in >> stayed in for work | India |
Work
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | related >> wrote >> author of | The Traitor |
| 1960 | — | related >> wrote >> author of | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| 1941 | — | related >> wrote >> author of | Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941. |
| 1976 | — | related >> wrote >> author of | 20th Century Journey |
| 1932-11 | 1970 | related >> wrote >> author of | Private correspondence of the Shirers and John Gunther including political commentary |
| — | — | related >> wrote | reports on Austria and the Austrian Civil War (William Shirer) |
| — | — | related >> appears/appeared in >> as fictionalized character | The Traitor |
| — | — | related >> appears/appeared in >> as fictionalized character | The Lost City |
Label
| Label | Start | End | Label type | ISO Code |
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| http://https://ica.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/apis/api2/entity/524/ | — | — | Legacy URI (merge) | deu |
| Stiberitz Shirer, Theresa "Tess" | — | — | Legacy name (merge) | deu |
