Georg Stefan Troller: TV journalist died at the age of 103

The author and filmmaker Georg Stefan Troller (1921-2025) from Austria died in Paris on Saturday morning at the age of 103. The . Troller is considered a “century journalist” who explained France for more than 50 years. With the “Paris Journal” (1962-1971), as a correspondent in the French capital and with many TV portraits, he became a journalist legend.

Georg Stefan Troller was born on December 10, 1921 in Vienna. The son of a Jewish fur dealer initially made an apprenticeship as a bookseller. At the age of 16 he had to flee from the Nazis. First he came to Czechoslovakia, in 1938 to France, in 1941 in the United States. There he was drafted into military service two years later, helped the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and was used to question German prisoners of war.

After the end of the war, he studied English and theater science in the United States, but returned to Europe. From 1949 he lived in Paris and became known as a television reporter with his work. He made around 170 films, was for the ARD and the ZDF correspondent, met, among others, Charles de Gaulle or Alain Delon and also published several books.

In all of the France years, however, he never forgot his origin. “Home is where you were a child. There is no new home,” said Troller in an interview with the Austrian “Kurier”. “I never denied Austria. I was infinitely grateful to this Austria that this childhood gave me total devotion and love to this country. We loved this Austria.”