Georg Stefan Troller

Georg Stefan Troller (born December 10, 1921)[1] is an Austrian-born French director and screenwriter.

In 1938, Troller fled Austria from the Nazis, first to Czechoslovakia and from there on to France, where he was interned as an enemy alien.

In the USA, he was drafted into military service in 1943 and participated in the liberation and documentation of the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, as well as the capture of Munich on May 1.

[2] In 1949, a Fulbright scholarship for the Sorbonne brought Troller to Paris, where he became a correspondent for RIAS.

[2] Troller rose to fame with his program Pariser Journal, which aired from 1962 to 1971 on ARD.