I chose the title “A Journalist for Me” because my research exposed Egon Erwin Kisch as a mouthpiece of the leading pro-Emperor, pro-military paper in Prague, “Bohemia”. However, at the time of Col. Alfred Redl’s forced suicide, nobody following Redl newspaper coverage would have associated Kisch’s name with the case. The Redl espionage/homosexuality scoop was “officially broke” by “Militarische Rundschau”, Fieldmarshall Conrad von Hoetzendorf’s newspaper. Franz Ferdinand’s “Die Zeit” broke the espionage angle days before.
Col. Alfred Redl 