Human researcher, people person, cosmopolitan, man of the century: Georg Stefan Troller. The term "witness of the century" is an enormous one. It fits Troller perfectly. Paris was his school of life. In the 1950s, the stateless Jewish emigrant wandered through the cultural capital of Europe. His legendary, profound portraits of ordinary people and great stars made the son of a Jewish furrier famous. His Parisian journal is both a conquest of the world and an intimate diary. Troller's art: getting people to reveal something about themselves that they either didn't know yet or had skillfully suppressed or hidden. In this, he was, in his quietly probing way, unmatched. Troller: One must not be satisfied with trivialities; the truth must come out. Coco Chanel.