Klaus Stimeder

Klaus Josef Stimeder (aka JM Stim), (* March 17, 1975 in Schaerding, Austria) is an author and a journalist who lives in New York City and Glassell Park. In Germany and Austria the former war correspondent became known as the founder and publisher of monthly political magazine Datum and for coauthoring the biography "Despite Everything: The Oscar Bronner Story ", which covers the life of the Austro-Jewish publishing icon.

Stimeder grew up in the Upper Austrian village of Obernberg am Inn as the only son of a lower-middle-class family. His father worked as a customs officer on the German-Austrian border, his mother as a shop assistant.

During his childhood and teenage years, Stimeder's biggest influence was his late maternal uncle Franz Martin who had been living and studying in Salzburg. In the seventies and eighties, many contemporary Austrian artists and writers gathered in Martin's various apartments, whose works and lifestyles had a big impact on Stim (i.e. H. C. Artmann, for whose readings Martin had been delivering the musical support for many years, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Lucas Suppin and painter Kiki Kogelnik). After graduating from high school he went on studying History, Political Science and English Literature at the University of Vienna.

Stimeder started a career in journalism in 1998 at the Foreign Desk of news magazine Format, which at the time was conceived as the Austrian equivalent of Newsweek. He instantly started specializing in war and disaster reporting, covering the war in Kosovo, the conflicts in Northern Ireland, Israel and the Palestinian territories and the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua.

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