Oscar Bronner, born 14 January 1943, is an Jewish Austrian newspaper publisher and painter.

Bronner was born in Haifa

Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...

, Israel the eldest son of Austrian cabaret artist Gerhard Bronner

Gerhard Bronner

Gerhard Bronner was an Austrian composer, writer, musician and a cabaret artist, known for his contribution to Austrian culture in the post-World War II period....

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In 1970 Bronner founded the monthly economic journal trend and news magazine profil

Profil (magazine)

profil is an Austrian news magazine. It was founded in 1970 by Oscar Bronner, who also founded the magazine Trend and the daily newspaper Der Standard....

. In 1974 trend and profil were sold and Bronner emigrated to New York, where he lived as a painter, having several exhibitions both in Europe and America.

He returned to Vienna in 1986 and in 1988 he founded the national daily newspaper Der Standard

Der Standard

Der Standard is an Austrian national daily newspaper which is published in Vienna . It was founded by Oscar Bronner as a financial newspaper and the first edition was published on 1988-10-19...

, of which he remains publisher.

In 2008, Austrian journalists Klaus Stimeder

Klaus Stimeder

Klaus Josef Stimeder , is an author and a journalist who lives in New York City. In Germany and Austria the former war correspondent became known as the founder and publisher of monthly policy magazine Datum and for coauthoring the biography „Trotzdem...

and Eva Weissenberger wrote a biography on Bronner (so far only published in German), entitled "Trotzdem. Die Oscar-Bronner-Story".