Theatre Administration. One source describes his departure from that position a few years later as "noisy" ("geräuschvoll"), possibly because he followed it up with a sensationalist book about the widely revered Vienna State Opera. In 1970 he became a regular columnist with the mass-market Kronen Zeitung. His columns were not uncontentious. In 1972 he became editor-in-chief for the paper's Upper Austria edition, and in 1974 he moved across from Linz to Vienna in order to take charge of the arts and culture section, retaining this position till 1987. Several of Reimann's contributions, notably his 1974 series of articles in a series called "The Jews in Austria" which appeared in the Kronen Zeitung, became a focus of research involving possible antisemitic content. Conclusions were far from unanimous. There were findings along the lines that neither the intent nor the spirit of the content were as crudely or overtly antisemitic as some of the material appearing in the gutter press at the same time: that fell far short of a complete exoneration. Under the title "Die Dritte Kraft in Österreich" ("The Third Force in Austria"), Viktor Reimann published a history of the political Austrian "Third estate" since 1945. This study of the frequently over-looked classes drew praise from Wolfgang Purtscheller who found it a "deeply apologietic and for that reason deeply interesting book over the re-emergence of a national identity". Publications (selection) Notes References Politicians from Vienna Members of the National Council (Austria) Federation of Independents politicians 1915 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Austrian journalists