a relatively high-profile VdU member of parliament, were affected by those perceptions, both during his political career and subsequently. During the build-up to the ("anti-communist") Vienna Brecht boycott which took hold in the city's theatres for ten years between 1953 and 1963, Reimann joined in the criticism of the iconic playwright. In a contribution which he made in October 1951 to the bimonthly periodical "Die Neue Front" under the headline "Wer schmuggelte das Kommunistenpferd in das deutsche Rom?" (loosely, "Who smuggled the communist wooden horse into the German Rome?"), Reimann wrote that "giving Bertolt Brecht Austrian citizenship [in 1950] shows that our country is still undermined by communism and the Americans are continuing to fund the spiritual Bolshevisation of Austria, exploiting the eager collaboration of certain socialist intellectuals along with the uncertainties and weaknesses of the cultural power-brokers of the [governing (in coalition)] ÖVP ("centre-right Austrian People's Party"), Throughout his time as an opposition member of parliament, Reimann's increasing public profile seems to have owed more to his continuing work as a journalist than to any contributions he made with his parliamentary work. He was editor-in-chief of the party's daily newspaper, "Österreichische Allgemeine Zeitung" from its launch on 1 December 1949 till April 1950 when publication came to an end for reasons of cost. The party's weekly newspaper, "Neue Front", fared better, printed in Salzburg alongside the Salzburger Nachrichten for seven years between 25 February 1949 and 1956. Viktor Reimann was its editor-in-chief throughout. Reimann's own contributions to "Neue Front" did much to burnish his credentials as a polemicist. "Neue Front" contained frequent articles criticising the activities of the Austrian People's Courts which had been established in 1945 (and which are not to be confused with the National Socialist era special People's Court that had concentrated on "political cases"). The post-1945 Austrian People's Courts were condemned and, some felt, defamed by "Neue Front" over their continuing attention to denunciations received concerning alleged "Nazi-era crimes". Sometimes the condemnations published had been written by Reimann himself. Those who saw "Neue Front", its editor in chief, and indeed the VdU (party) itself, as apologists for former National Socialist members and collaborators could be sharply critical, not simply within Austria, but also across the frontier in West Germany where some of the same concerns still resonated. Journalist and author Between 1956 and 1960 Reimann was employed as the Press Department head of the National