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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 1932-10 | related >> worked for/at | Chicago Tribune |
| 1933 | 1934 | related >> worked for/at >> was editor of | New York Herald Tribune |
| 1925 | — | related >> studied at >> graduated from | Coe College |
| 1929 | 1932 | related >> visited | Café Louvre |
| 1937 | — | related >> worked for/at | Columbia Broadcasting System |
| 1934 | 1937-08 | related >> worked for/at | Berlin bureau of Hearst’s Universal News Service |
| 1929 | 1932 | related | Central Telegraph Office Vienna |
| 1930-06-24 | — | established >> founding member of | Anglo-American Press Association |
| — | — | related | Radio Austria AG |
| 1925 | 1938 | related >> visited | the Stammtisch of foreign correspondents at the Café Louvre |
Person
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Person |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | acquainted with | Fodor, Marcel |
| — | — | close friendship with | Gunther, Frances |
| — | — | close friendship with | Lewis, Sinclair |
| 1931-01-31 | 1970 | married to | Stiberitz Shirer, Theresa |
| — | — | correspondence with | Gunther, John |
| — | — | close friendship with | Gunther, John |
| — | — | friendship with | Thompson, Dorothy |
| — | — | colleague of | Duranty, Walter |
| — | — | acquainted with | Best, Robert |
| — | — | friendship with | Murrow, Edward R. |
Place
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-11 | — | related >> lived at | Plösslgasse 4, 1040 Vienna |
| 1938 | — | related >> moved to | London |
| — | 1993 | related >> stayed in | 22 Sunset Ave, Lenox, MA 01240, USA |
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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| Stiberitz Shirer, Theresa "Tess" | — | — | Legacy name (merge) | deu |
| http://https://ica.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/apis/api2/entity/524/ | — | — | Legacy URI (merge) | deu |
