Overview
- His death on September 27 was confirmed in Paris by his daughter, Fenn Troller, and reported by outlets including the Literarische Welt.
- Troller became a model for generations through WDR’s Pariser Journal and ZDF’s Personenbeschreibung, producing more than 170 films and about 2,000 interviews.
- Born in Vienna to a Jewish family, he fled the Nazis, served in the U.S. Army, and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp in 1945.
- He favored a direct, humane approach that probed lives without sensationalism, a method widely cited as his defining contribution.
- German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the heads of ZDF and WDR praised his legacy, while the Literarische Welt noted he wrote a monthly column until late in life.