{"id":2647,"date":"2020-04-17T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T09:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/6844-2"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:28:50","slug":"6844-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/6844-2","title":{"rendered":"CULT CHANCELLOR KREISKY. Christoph Kotanko in conversation with Margit Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his current book KULTKANZLER KREISKY. Myth and Man, just published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ueberreuter-sachbuch.at\/shop\/kult-kanzler-kreisky-mythos-und-mensch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.ueberreuter-sachbuch.at\/shop\/kult-kanzler-kreisky-mythos-und-mensch\/\">Carl Ueberreuter Publishing House<\/a>, The domestic policy journalist Christoph Kotanko has conducted numerous interviews with close associates of Bruno Kreisky.<\/p>\n<p>One of these is <strong>Margit Schmidt<\/strong>, who accompanied Kreisky as his assistant for decades through all the highs and lows. From the founding of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in 1991 until 2004, she was its Secretary General.<br \/>\nWith the kind permission of Carl Ueberreuter Verlag and the author, we are presenting extracts from a<strong> Interview by Christoph Kotanko with Margit Schmidt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/KULTKANZLER-KREISKY.-Leseprobe.pdf\">CULT CHANCELLOR KREISKY. reading sample<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2647","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KULTKANZLER KREISKY. 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