Arthur Steiner

Arthur Steiner studied law in Vienna (1916-19) and played for the prestigious football club Wiener AC. He was also a top middle-distance runner on the national level. In 1918 he was one of the founders of a sports journal called Sport am Mittag in Wien (Vienna). In the early 1920s he joined the popular Kronen-Zeitung and became famous for his reporting on football games. Steiner also attended the Olympic Games as journalist. Without previous notice he was dismissed from the editorial board in March 1938 for “non-Aryan descent” and emigrated to London.

After 1945, Steiner worked as a journalist in Germany’s American occupation zone before he moved to the United States in 1948. From 1959 he was US correspondent of the newly founded Kronen-Zeitung Wien and subsequently, until 1964, chief correspondent for the German magazine Quick. Steiner lived in New York until 1979 and later in München, where he eventually died. After 1920, he published a number of books on sport and New York as well as English language guides for Germans. In 1966 he received the Golden Medal of the Republic of Austria.