Overview

• His daughter, Fenn Troller, said he died early Saturday, September 27, in Paris.
• A Vienna-born Jewish refugee, he fled the Nazis in 1938, served in the U.S. Army, and took part in the liberation of Dachau.
• He produced WDR’s Pariser Journal from 1962 to 1971 and ZDF’s Personenbeschreibung from 1972 to 1993.
• Across roughly 2,000 interviews and more than 170 films, he introduced a widely imitated “human touch” to German television.
• He wrote a monthly column for the Literarische Welt until his death and was widely hailed in obituaries as a “Jahrhundertzeuge.”