Bronner was born in
Haifa,
Mandatory Palestine, on 14 January 1943. He is the eldest son of Austrian cabaret artist
Gerhard Bronner. In 1948, at the age of five, he returned with his father to Austria. In 1970, Bronner launched the monthly economic journal
trend and news magazine
profil. 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 the US. He returned to
Vienna in 1986 and in 1988 founded the national daily newspaper
Der Standard, of which he remains publisher. In 2008, Austrian journalists
Klaus Stimeder and Eva Weissenberger wrote a biography on Bronner called
Trotzdem – Die Oscar Bronner Story. The book was published in English under the title
Despite Everything – The Oscar Bronner Story. In May 2014, Bronner left the board of
Der Standard. == Artist ==