Schultz, Sigrid (–)
American journalist and author. Name variations: (pseudonym) John Dickson. Born Sigrid Lillian Schultz in Chicago, Illinois, on January 5, ; died in Westport, Connecticut, on May 14, ; daughter of Herman Schultz (a portrait painter) and Hedwig (Jaskewitz) Schultz; attended the Lycée Racine in Paris; graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris, ; studied international law at Berlin University; never married; no children.
Witnessed the rise of the Nazi party (s–s); despite threats and intimidation, remained in Berlin in early years of World War II (–41), reporting on the Nazi regime; conducted interviews with Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler; under an assumed name, filed stories that exposed concentration camps, the persecution of Jews, and other Nazi brutalities; wrote Germany Will Try It Again ().
Sigrid Schultz was born in Chicago during the World's Fair, the daughter of Hedwig Jaskewitz Schultz and Herman Schultz, a Norwegian-American artist who had been commissioned to paint an official portrait of Chicago mayor Carter H. Harrison, Jr., in honor of the event. Sigrid attended school in Chicago until , when she accompanied her family to Europe after h
The story of &#;an American reporter in Nazi Germany&#; might not seem like an encouraging choice of nonfiction reading now, at a time when escapism is an appealing antidote to news and social media. Plus, the Second World War has been done to death in magazines, TV, books, the History Channel.
But The Dragon From Chicago is not another story you&#;ve read before. It does what many good biographies do: it provides an intimate individual view of historic events that illuminates the better known versions with new light. The story of multi-lingual European-raised Chicago Tribune journalist Sigrid Schultz is a riveting first hand account, full of wild anecdotes, and resonance with our times.
She became a foreign correspondent because she was in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills, if &#;right&#; is a good word when it meant staying in Berlin until The rapidly shifting context of her personal and work life, and the disbelief and rationalizing of the situation by both civilians and experts, make the social responses to the rise of the Nazis feel familiar.
As the violence escalates, Schultz dodges (mostly) street fighters, bombs, and attempts to frame her as
January 5, () &#; Sigrid Schultz, war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, interviewed Hitler, reported on German-Russian non-aggression pact, wrote articles on German concentration camps.I was surprised I hadn't heard of this amazing woman's story until now, so I went looking for more information about her life and her work.
(source: NWHP January calendar)
Fortunately I was able to get a copy of Kerrie Logan Hollihan's Reporting Under Fire: 16 Daring Women War Correspondents and Photojournalists, which has an entire section devoted to her. (I am a huge fan of Kerrie Logan Hollihan, and highly recommend you check out her bibliography.)
Sigrid Schultz was born in the US, but spent much of her childhood in Europe. Her father was a portrait painter and traveled Europe painting for the wealthy elite. Having grown up in Europe, Sigrid spoke perfect German and French as well as English. She studied history and international law at Berlin University. Her family was forced to remain in Germany during World War I because of health issues. As alien residents, they were required to report t
Review of The Dragon from Chicago
By Andrew Nagorski
Of all the Americans who reported from interwar Germany and Central Europe, no one was as well prepared for the assignment as Sigrid Schultz, Berlin bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune. William Shirer, the famed CBS correspondent and author of the monumental The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, was unequivocal in his praise of her skills and the sheer breadth of her knowledge about German society. “No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scenes as did Sigrid Schultz,” he declared (p. xi).
Today, very few people remember Shultz. As historian Pamela D. Toler points out in her deservedly laudatory, highly engaging biography of the once-famous journalist, this is hardly surprising. “News reporting is an ephemeral art for all but the most notable,” she writes (p. ). And even in Shultz’s day, when she was churning out stories at an impressive rate from Nazi Germany, which was then the epicenter of the news universe, she was not nearly as well known as Shirer, Dorothy Thompson, who reported for Philadelphia’s Public Ledger and later the New York Evening Post, or Edgar Anse
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