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Portrait Schriftsteller Johannes Mario Simmel in Zug für Journal f. d. Frau. Schweiz 1987 Switzerland literatur portrait
Johannes Mario Simmel (7 April 1924 – 1 January 2009) was an Austrian writer.
He was born in Vienna and grew up in Austria and England. He was trained as a chemical engineer and worked in research from 1943 to the end of World War II. After the end of the war, he worked as a translator for the American military government and published reviews and stories in the Vienna Welt am Abend. Starting in 1950, he worked as a reporter for the Munich illustrated Quick in Europe and America.