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ZOOM Live<\/a> \/ Facebook Live<\/a><\/p>\n

Tessa Szyszkowitz in conversation with Hella Pick<\/strong><\/h4>\n

INVISIBLE WALLS
\n<\/strong>The former diplomatic correspondent for the Guardian talks about her life between Vienna and London.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

For 35 years, she worked for the British Guardian<\/em> has accompanied world history. The British woman, who came from Vienna, covered almost the entire Cold War. From JFK to Mikhail Gorbachev, the journalist met the most important politicians between Washington and Warsaw and, as one of the first women in this job, was always an outstanding personality - also thanks to her physical size.
\nHella Pick has now written her memoirs, which will be published in the UK this spring under the title Invisible Walls<\/em> and have once again brought the 91-year-old legend of foreign journalism onto the stage of British talk shows. Having fled the Nazis as a child from Vienna on a Kindertransport to London, the Austrian adapted so well to British culture that she adopted one of the quintessentially English traits: self-deprecation. It runs like a thread through Pick's memoirs, which she will discuss with Tessa Szyszkowitz in a live online talk from London.<\/p>\n

Hella Pick\u00a0 <\/strong>ock was born in Vienna in 1929 and came to London ten years later on a Kindertransport. After her studies, Pick first became Africa correspondent for the magazine \u201cWestAfrika\u201d, and from 1961 she worked for \u201dThe Guardian\u201d. She remained its diplomatic correspondent for 35 years. She then moved to Geroge Weidenfeld's \u201cInstitute for Strategic Dialogue\u201d. She wrote a biography about Simon Wiesenthal and one about her old homeland: \u201cGuilty victim - Austria from the Holocaust to Haider\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tessa Szyszkowitz<\/strong>, Historian, Journalist and Author; UK-Correspondent for PROFILE<\/em>, Butterfly<\/em> and Cicero<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Invisible Walls. A Journalist in Search of her life<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/strong>by Hella Pick, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, is also available as an e-book. <\/em>ISBN-10: 147461373X.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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