Katerina Abramova
Katerina Abramova is the Head of Communications and deputy CEO at Meduza — the largest remaining independent Russian news outlet published in both Russian and English. She also oversees Meduza’s crowdfunding and fundraising efforts. Before joining Meduza, Katerina worked at one of Russia’s largest charitable foundations and managed various cultural projects.
Catherine André
Catherine André is a journalist for over 35 years, cofounder and Editorial director of Voxeurop since 2015. She has been a member of the Jury of the European Cartoon Award (ECA) for the last three years and was Chair of the 2024 Jury. She is a member of the Jury of the Louise Weiss Prize for European journalism, […]
Alexander
Alexander works as a journalist and translator for the Belarusian media outlet NEXTA in Warsaw, Poland. His parents were active in the Belarusian democracy movement and migrated to Germany in the late 1990s. Despite being born in Germany, Alexander is highly interested in the political situation in Belarus. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Politics and Society.
Ahmed Alnaouq
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, a collective that trains the next generation of Palestinian writers to publish their stories in English. Ahmed is also is a co-founder of Across the Wall, a media platform that tells Palestinian stories in Hebrew. Ahmed obtained a Chevening Scholarship to pursue a […]
Barbara Bachmann
Barbara Bachmann is a freelance reporter from South Tyrol. Her work mainly includes long-term projects, reports and portraits for newspapers and magazines such as Reportagen, the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and mare.
Biancka Arruda Miranda
Biancka Arruda Miranda was born in Brazil and has been living in Germany since 2017. She is a political scientist (with an M.A.), environmental and human rights activist, involved with the ecumenical office in Munich Öku-Büro e.V. and board member of KoBra- Kooperation Brasilien e.V. as well as Commit e.V. On radio channel Radio Lora München, she hosts the programme “in Brasilien […]
Barış Altıntaş
Barış Altıntaş is an Istanbul-based journalist. Early on in her career, she worked for different news agencies and newspapers in Ankara and Istanbul including the Economic News Agency (EBA) and Turkish Daily News, reporting on politics, women’s rights and science. Later, she moved on to working as a freelance journalist, contributing to websites of newspapers […]
Yaraslava Ananka
Yaraslava Ananka is a scientist of Slavic Studies, essay writer and translator from Belarus living in Berlin. She is a scientific co-worker at the Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies and a member of the Belarussian PEN Centre.
Wolfgang Andexlinger
Wolfgang Andexlinger studied architecture at the TU Vienna as well as at the TU Delft in the Netherlands. He worked for several years as a lecturer at the Institute for Urban Design and Spatial Planning at the University of Innsbruck, where he received his PhD and his habilitation. Since 2016 he is the city planner of […]
Tekla Aslanishvili
Tekla Aslanishvili is an artist and film maker, based in Berlin and Tbilisi.She is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is a fellow at the graduate school of the Berlin University of the Arts.After earning her degree at the State Art Academy of Tbilisi (2009), she completed […]
Anna Aridzanjan
Anna Aridzanjan is a journalist working for the Audience Development Department at t-online. She is a descendant of survivors of the Armenian Genocide, which started 1915 and was born in Yerevan, Armenia. When Anna was four years old Anna’s family fled to Germany, where she now lives with her husband and children.
Marcus Bachmann
Marcus Bachmann is Advocacy and Humanitarian Affairs Advisor for Médecins Sans Frontières / Ärzte ohne Grenzen – Österreich. He has twenty years of international experience in complex humanitarian crisis situations. The Tyrolean has focused on emergency responses to natural disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Türkiye, in war and conflict zones, such as Afghanistan, […]
Werner Bätzing
Werner Bätzing, cultural geographer, is considered the doyen of Alpine research. He was born in 1949 in Kassel and grew up on the countryside of North Hesse. Between 1968 and 1974, he studied Evangelical Theology and Philosophy at the Bethel University and at the University of Tübingen and Heidelberg. Graduating with a first Theological Degree. […]
Antonio Baquero
Based in Barcelona, Antonio Baquero joined OCCRP in 2020 and is an investigative editor covering Europe and beyond. Before that, he made his professional career at El Periódico Catalunya, where he served as a correspondent in North Africa, specializing in migration, as well as a war reporter in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. As an investigative journalist, he received the […]
Philip Bauer
Philip Bauer is head of Austrian daily newspaper STANDARD’s Department of Sports. His article “Es gab Übergriffe von Trainern, Betreuern, Kollegen” (Assaults Were Committed by Trainers, Coaches and Colleagues) was awarded “Austria’s Story of the Year” at the 2018 Days of Journalism. In 2024, the contents were adapted to create the feature film “Persona Non Grata”. In […]
Anita Bernacchia
Anita Bernacchia is a freelance journalist and editorial translator. She has written about EU and Eastern European politics (Romania and Moldova) for several publications, including voxeurop, Linkiesta, Eunews.it and a few press agencies. She is occasionally a news correspondent for Radio Radicale, Radio Svizzera Italiana, Cusano Italia TV and has a deep knowledge in Romanian contemporary culture […]
Claus Biegert
In 1973, journalist Claus Biegert (born in 1947) turned to the indigenous people of North America and to date has remained steadfast to them. In his work as author and film maker, he puts one spotlight on uranium, a radioactive ore that is mined globally—predominantly on the land of indigenous people and causes the destruction of their habitats that will […]
Nora Belghaus
Nora Belghaus was born in 1988 in Saarbrücken. She works as editor and reporter for German weekly wochentaz in Berlin and is in charge of the reading extracts in their societal section. She studied Social and Cultural Anthropology in Vienna and Berlin and received her journalistic training at the journalism school Reportageschule (formerly Reportageschule Zeitenspiegel). Her […]
Yavuz Baydar
Yavuz Baydar is the Editor-in-Chief of Ahval, a trilingual independent online news site and podcasts on Turkey. Since the attempted coup in 2016 he lives in exile in Europe. Beginning at Milliyet daily in 1999 as Turkey’s first news ombudsman Baydar worked as a reader representative until 2014. His work included reader complaints with content, and […]
Markus Beckedahl
Markus Beckedahl is the founder of netzpolitik.org, a medium for digital civil liberties and one of the biggest welfare orientated media in Germany. He is the co-founder of the re:publica conference, which is Europe’s leading festival regarding digital society.
Olivier van Beemen
Olivier van Beemen is a Dutch investigative journalist and author of the books Heineken in Africa and Im Namen der Tiere. For his research on the beer company Heineken, he won the Tegel, the most prestigious award in Dutch journalism. His previous book Heineken in Africa was published in five languages and earned nominations for several prizes in the Netherlands, France and the UK. […]
Francesco Bellina
Francesco Bellina (Trapani, 1989) is a photographer based in Palermo. His artistic work focuses mainly on contemporary socio-political issues with a particular focus on the topics of migration and climate issues. He attended the Law faculty in Palermo and simultaneously dedicated himself to photography. His works have been published on major international media such as The […]
Christoph Berger-Schauer
While Christoph Berger-Schauer is originally from Kirchdorf / Krems in Upper Austria, he now lives in Vienna. Co-founder and Head of Content for Austrian mountain bike magazine LINES. He is all about the biker’s lifestyle. A holiday without his bicycle is beyond his imagination. Grateful for the opportunity to help shape the local mountain bike scene, he spares no […]
Gianfranco Benincasa
Gianfranco Benincasa, 56, journalist for Rai Trento, correspondent and anchorman. For Rai Sport he has covered Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships in various sports. He has a degree in contemporary history from the University of Bologna. Benincasa has been President of the Ordine dei Giornalisti del Trentino Alto Adige – the Trentino – […]
Dieter Bornemann
Dieter Bornemann (born 1967 in Graz) is Chairman of the ORF Editorial Board, editor oft he main news-programm „ZiB“ and host of the weekly business magazine ECO. He joined ORF radio in 1992, was EU correspondent in Brussels and has been a member of the ZiB editorial team since 1998. As Chairman of the Editorial […]
Eva Binder
Eva Binder is a Slavic studies scholar and publishes in the field of cultural, film and media studies. She is a research associate at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Innsbruck and academic director of the Eastern European Centre at the University of Innsbruck. Her work focuses on 20th century and contemporary […]
Maria Bobyleva
Maria Bobyleva is a Russian journalist and a writer. Originally from Moscow, since March 2022 lives in Riga, Latvia. Maria works as a managing editor at Takie Dela, an independent Russian online media outlet about social problems. Before taking this position she had been a staff journalist at Takie Dela for 5 years writing about social injustice, gender […]
Janina Böck-Koroschitz
Janina Böck-Koroschitz was born in 1985 in Vienna. She studied History at the University of Vienna, was research associate for different book and exhibition projects dealing with subjects around the Nazi era and produced the documentary “Free Art” on street art in Tel Aviv in 2015. She is a freelance employee of the Austrian radio station Österreich 1 and […]
Karoline Bofinger
Karoline Bofinger is a comic editor of the German edition of Le Monde diplomatique. She is also a freelance photographer, graphic designer and curator of a number of comic exhibitions.
Christophe Boltanski
Christophe Boltanski is a French journalist and author. He wrote for the daily newspaper Liberation for a long time, was a war correspondent during the Second Gulf War and correspondent in Jerusalem and London, later at the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur (today: Le nouvel Obs) and editor-in-chief of the magazine Revue XXI. His reportages were […]
Ilja Braun
Ilja Braun works as an author and advisor for civil society organisations. He is a member of the German No-SLAPP association and used to be a member of the advocacy team of the German section of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Before that, he used to be advisor for topics related to media and digital policies for […]
Julia Breitkopf
Julia Breitkopf is journalist, podcast host and a PR pundit. She was born in 1985 in Gmunden/ Upper Austria, studied sociology in Vienna, Copenhagen and New York. Whilst pursuing her studies, she started her career as part of the editorial staff at the South Eastern Europe foreign studio of German public-service broadcaster ZDF. In collaboration with […]
Lisa-Katharina Breuer
Lisa-Katharina Breuer was born in 1995 in Hagen. She gained her first theatre-related experience in children’s and youth’s clubs as well as during internships in different technical areas at the Theatre of Hagen and the Theatre of Dortmund. She studied Arts and History, and Philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the Università degli […]
Johannes Bruckenberger
Johannes Bruckenberger is Editor-in-Chief of the Austria Press Agency APA. Bruckenberger started his journalistic career at the Salzkammergut Zeitung and has worked for APA since 1994. He initially worked as a freelancer for the APA journals Education, Research and Media as well as for the Chronicle Department. In 1998 he became media editor of the […]
Jannis Brühl
Jannis Brühl was born in Nürnberg and is head of the digital team of German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. He covers digital economy, social media, artificial intelligence and big tech. He holds a degree in Politics and American Studies at the Universities of Erlangen and Portland, Oregon. After his traineeship with the online version of Süddeutsche Zeitung, […]
Adolf Buitenhuis
Adolf Buitenhuis is a graphic designer. He has been in charge of the Atlas of Globalisation for Le Monde diplomatique Berlin since 2006. The last edition was published in 2022.
Matthias Daum
Matthias Daum (*1979) is a journalist and has headed ZEIT’s Swiss office in Zurich since 2014. He studied history, philosophy and art history in Zurich. He has written for ZEIT Switzerland since 2009, first as a freelancer and later as an editor. Before that, he worked as a journalist for the Zürichsee-Zeitung and the Neue […]
Annika Brockschmidt
Annika Brockschmidt studied History, German Studies, and War and Conflict Studies in Heidelberg, Durham and Potsdam. She is a freelance journalist and author, Worked for the capital city studio of German public-broadcaster ZDF and produces the podcasts “Kreuz und Flagge” And “Feminist Shelf Control”. She is senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches and writes for example for German daily […]
Nele Sophie Bulla
Nele Sophie Bulla, born 1999, is a student of the Master’s programme “Gender, Culture and Social Change” at the University of Innsbruck. Her focus is on media practice. She was born on the North Sea coast of Germany. After graduating from high school, the now 24-year-old lived in London for nine months to do voluntary […]
Christo Buschek
Pullitzer Prize winner Christo Buschek works as an investigative journalist and software developer and focusses on the intersection between journalism and technology. He currently works for media outlets like German magazine Der Spiegel and Paper Trail Media; and he is senior fellow of Mozilla Foundation. Buschek’s works are dedicated to disclosing human-rights violations, developing tools and methodologies for data-based research […]
Emily Busvine
Emily Busvine was born in Vienna in 1996, but grew up as a ‘third culture kid’ in Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow, among other places. She studied political science and social anthropology at the University of Cambridge and moved back to Vienna in 2018, where she completed a master’s degree at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. […]
Georg Cadeggianini
Georg Cadeggianini is an editor for German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung where he works for the Weekend Department as well as for the newspaper’s children’s page. He grew up as the fifth of six brothers. Humour can sometimes act like an umbrella in that context. Cadeggianini has seven children between the age of 11 and 25. He can […]
Annalisa Camilli
Annalisa Camilli is an Italian journalist based in Rome, she is a member of the editorial board of Internazionale. She has also published articles in Politico, Open Democracy, The New Humanitarian and others newspapers.
Matthew Caruana Galizia
Matthew Caruana Galizia is the director of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation. He worked at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), developing the technology that enabled major investigations such as ‘Panama Papers’ and ‘Paradise Papers’. In 2018, Matthew left ICIJ to continue working on the case around the killing of his mother, Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was […]
Lucie Černá
Lucie Černá is an accredited solutions journalism trainer. At the moment, Lucie is on parental leave with her baby-daughter, before she led Transitions’ program promoting solutions journalism in Central and Eastern Europe and coordinated activities supporting solutions-oriented reporting in more than 10 countries. She has been involved in the topic since 2017, and now acts as a trainer and […]
Choir of Diversity
The exact number of diverse members remains unknown. Usually, 80 to 100 will show up to rehearsals. Same goes for performances. The E-Mail-Distribution-List reaches hundreds of names and they increase in number week by week. Some of them do not sing in the choir anymore, others decided to take a break. But hardly anyone would […]
Katharina Christ
Since the 1st of March 2025, Katharina Christ has been a senior researcher at the German National Institute for Science Communication in Karlsruhe. She earned her PhD in Media Studies and used to be research associate at the University of Trier as well as the University of Innsbruck. In her research, she focuses on the intersection between science […]
Giorgos Christides
Giorgos Christides (born in 1976) is a Greece-based investigative journalist focusing on migration. For more than a decade, he has reported for international outlets, including Der Spiegel (2012-2024), German public-service broadcasters ARD, the BBC, DW and the Guardian. He was bestowed with several journalism awards for investigations focusing on migration (the 2023 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism; […]
Katharina Cibulka
Katharina Cibulka lives in Innsbruck and works in Innsbruck and Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (art and digital media and performance art), the Vienna School of Artistic Photography and the New York Film Academy. Cibulka is co-founder of the women’s band telenovela and the artist group peek a corner. Works […]
Naomi Colvin
Naomi Colvin works for Blueprint for Free Speech in London. She has aparticular interest in whistleblowing as a freedom of expression issueand the legal threats journalists, whistleblowers and activists can facein their own countries and internationally. She is currently working oncross-European projects on whistleblowing and on combating SLAPPs – Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.
Theresia Crone
Theresia Crone is a Fridays for Future activist since 2019 and started her #EndEndoSilence campaign in the beginning of 2022. She writes a column for the Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung NOZ where she addresses young issues. Theresia Crone is studying German-French law in Cologne and Paris.
Esther Csapo
Esther Csapo, born in Carinthia in Austria, hosts and creates ZIB Zack Mini, the news programme of Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF. For 20 years, Csapo was working as host and editor for Radio FM4. In 2019, she then joined ORF 1 where she now produces ZIB Zack, the news programme of Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF. Before her career […]
Dorothee D’Aprile
Dorothee D’Aprile has been an editor at the German edition of Le Monde diplomatique, Berlin, since 2003.
Emanuele Del Rosso
Emanuele Del Rosso is an Italian communication specialist and award-winning political cartoonist. He publishes his cartoons in several magazines and online newspapers. Among them: Le Monde, Washington Post, Courrier International, Charlie Hebdo, Het Financieele Dagblad, Le Temps, The Japan Times, the Nation. Since 2016, he has been a member of the Cartoon Movement, and since 2020 a member […]
Caterina D’Osualdo
Caterina D’Osualdo has been a civil judge in Italy since 2003, first employed at the Tribunal of Marsala (2003 – 2008) and then at the Tribunal of Como (2008 – 2019). From 2019 to 2021 she has been seconded to the Ministry of Justice in Italy, where she has worked for the Directorate General of […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga, from Zimbabwe, is one of the most important voices on the African continent as a multi-award-winning author, filmmaker and feminist essayist. She lives and works in Zimbabwe. She was born and educated in her home country. She attended Cambridge University, Sidney Sussex College, where she is an Honorary Fellow, before studying psychology at the […]
Dominic Dapré
Dominic Dapré (born 1990) is an Austrian radio host and reporter for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation in the state of Vorarlberg. In 2014 he began his career as a reporter for radio and TV programs. In 2020 he started his own podcast with co-host Christian Suter called “kaktuskuscheln”. Since summer 2020 he is part of the […]
Christian Daubner
Christian Daubner is deputy editor-in-chief of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). He has been devoted primarily to topics concerning the future of public broadcasting for a long time. From 2014 to 2020 he was head of digital information strategy in the information directorate at BR, followed by two years as head of strategy and product management. In other positions […]
Marianna Deinyan
Marianna Deinyan is a freelance journalist, host and podcast-host and lives in Cologne. She mainly works for the WDR, but also for the Deutschlandfunk Nova as well as Audible. Marianna was born in Yerevan in 1992, about half a year after Armenia left the Soviet Union. Her family moved to Germany due to the lack of perspectives in Armenia. […]
Pierluigi Depentori
Pierluigi Depentori, 51, is director of the daily newspaper L’Adige (Trento). He has been a journalist since 1996. Before being appointed director at L’Adige, he was web director of the Italian media of the Athesia group (L’Adige, Alto Adige and Trentino), which he developed graphically and by reorganising and merging the online editorial offices. Previously, […]
Leonhard Dobusch
Leonhard Dobusch is an Austrian economic scientist and Professor of Business Administration at the University of Innsbruck. He is a co-founder and chief scientist of the Momentum Institute, a member of the Council “ZDF-Fernsehrat” and a blogger (netzpolitik.org).
Katharina Dönhoff
Katharina Dönhoff, studied photography, has been advocating for Yazidi refugees since 2015. In 2019, together with her husband she founded the association HAND FÜR HAND e.V. (Hand for Hand), committed to opening up perspectives in the countries of origin—by providing education, kick-start support and a voice for minorities. Establishing an education institution for Yazidi domestic refugees in […]
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid is head of news at the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Since 2017, she has been SZ correspondent for Israel and the Palestinian territories, then a member of the editorial board. Previously, Föderl-Schmid was editor-in-chief for ten years and later also co-editor of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard and the news portal derStandard.at. She studied journalism, political science […]
Michael Fuchs
Michael Fuchs holds a doctorate degree in English and American studies from the University of Graz (Austria). Since 2022, he has been working in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. His research and teaching focuses on popular culture across media, with particular interests in environmental questions and inter-/cross-medial relations.
Sjors van Duren
Sjors van Duren has extensive experience in planning cycling infrastructure and developing cycling policies. He is able to combine different views and cultures in tailor-made approaches; aimed at a specific city, region or country. He integrates deep knowledge on design principles (protected intersections, cycling highways) with extensive policy and political experience; all to make sure […]
Toni Ebner
Toni Ebner is editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Dolomiten, Bolzano.Born in Bolzano in 1957, he studied Austrian and Italian law at the University of Innsbruck after graduating from the Walther von der Vogelweide Humanistic High School. He began his journalistic career as a freelancer for the Innsbruck Dolomiten editorial office. He was an editorial trainee […]
Margit Ehrenhöfer
Margit Ehrenhöfer, born in Mistelbach in 1993, studied theatre, film and media studies as well as journalism and new media. She has been an editor at the daily newspaper “Der Standard” since 2022. She is mainly part of the Audio & Video team for the podcasts “Topic of the Day” and “Inside Austria”. Before that, […]
Karim El-Gawhary
KKarim El-Gawhary is a journalist and best-selling writer. As a Middle East correspondent, he is working for several German newspapers. Since 2004, he is the head of the ORF Department of Middle East.
Benjamin Emonts
Benjamin Emonts will soon turn 40 and is a freelance journalist. At the moment, he mainly writes for German online magazine Zeit Online and Munich magazine for homeless individuals BISS. In his articles, he mostly covers economic and social issues. Before that, he used to work for German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) for 12 years. This is also […]
Peter Emorinken-Donatus
Peter Emorinken-Donatus is a freelance journalist, educational speaker, climate activist and ha been an opponent of the Shell concern for years. He has been living in Germany for 30 years and won the taz Panter Award in 2022. Peter co-founded the Ecocide Law Alliance , campaigning for a criminalisation of the ecocide, as well as the BIPoC-Think […]
Markus Ender
Markus Ender earned his doctorate in Literary Studies and works as a Senior Scientist at the Research Institute Brennero Archive at the University of Innsbruck. He focuses his research and teaching efforts on Austrian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, edition philology, and literary as well as cultural theories. He is co-editor of the […]
Alice Engl
Alice Engl is Senior Researcher and leader of the research group “Autonomies, Boundaries and Identities” at the Institute for Minority Rights of Eurac Research.She is general secretary of the South Tyrolean Political Science Association, where she co-edits the South Tyrolean Political Science Yearbook (Politika).
Lea Ernst
Lea Ernst had not tried the slightest hint of LSD, until, in 2022, she participated at a scientific DMT study for a report in a Swiss hospital: The perhaps most potent hallucinogen in the world was directly administered into her veins. In Innsbruck, she will take to the stage and tell us how the drug smashed […]
Hannah Espín Grau
Hannah Espín Grau holds a degree in Political and Legal Sciences from the University of Münster. Since 2018, she has been focusing her research on excessive police violence and the way such incidents are dealt with. She is research associate for Prof. Dr. Tobias Singelnstein (Goethe University Frankfurt) and co-author of the study “Gewalt im Amt” […]
Franz Essl
Franz Essl is professor and biodiversity researcher at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna. He is considered one of the leading experts in biodiversity research; and over the past few years, his name has consistently appeared on the list of the world’s most cited scientists. In addition to that, he is […]
Ann Esswein
Ann Esswein is a multimedia journalist and author. She is often conducting long term research internationally on questions of humanitarian and development aid, resource conflicts and migration.
E43
E43 is a band consisting of four women: one playing guitar and three vocalists. Linja Keller (vocals), Claudia Neudecker (guitar), Hemma Rittinger and Nathalie Schinnerl (vocals). They describe their music as a homemade “experimentalwhatsoever”. Their playful use of language ranges from surreal poetry to coarse pun. E43 enter the stage in grotesque costumes but will […]
Jakob Farah
Jakob Farah is an editor of the German edition of Le Monde diplomatique in Berlin. Before, he has been working as a scientific assistant of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. He is the editor of two books published in Le Monde diplomatique‘s “Editions”: Türkei. Gezi, Gülen, Großmachtträume (2021) and Israel und Palästina (2017).
Emran Feroz
Emran Feroz, born in 1991, is an award-winning writer, journalist and war reporter with a focus on the Middle East and Central Asia. His reporting has appeared in Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Intercept and many other publications. He is the author of Death at the Push of a Button (2017), about the US drone warfare, and is […]
Ingrid Fischer
Ingrid Fischer is President of the Alpine Town of the Year Association and Deputy Mayor of Sonthofen. Ingrid Fischer was born in Sindelfingen/Baden-Württemberg. In her early 20s she left her native town and moved to Sonthofen in the Allgäu. After more than 30 years as a senior MFA and manager of an internal medicine group […]
Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu
Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu is a writer and poet, born in 1981 and raised in Eritrea. Living in Munich, Germany since December 2018, was a scholarship holder for Pen Germany. She published her work extensively in Eritrea’s mass media since the late 1990th. She was a co-founder of the well-known “the Literary Club of Adi-keyh.” She went […]
Matthias Fleischmann
Matthias Fleischmann is a journalist from South Tyrol. Whilst pursuing his degree in Politics and Literary Studies in Innsbruck he first set foot in the world of journalism assuming the role of editor in chief of UNIpress. He then went on to work for various media outlets including the South Tyrolean weekly magazine ff, student magazine Skolast and online magazine SichtWeisen published by the Internationales […]
Mattea Fo
Mattea Fo has been director of Dario Fo and Franca Rame Foundation since 2019. Mattea Fo studied Art and Humanities; and since 2011, she has been collaborating closely with her grandparents, playwright and director Dario Fo and playwright and actress Franca Rame. Both of them used to be engaged in political and social issues. The foundation was established in their […]
Farahnaz Forotan
Farahnaz Forotan was born in 1992 in Kabul and fled to Iran when she was five. In 2001 she returned to Kabul and decided to pursue a career in journalism. At the age of 23, she was awarded the First Medal of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan by the president of Afghanistan. In March 2019, Farotan […]
Christoph Franceschini
Christoph Franceschini has been working as an investigative journalist for 35 years. He was part of the founding team of the Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung, where he worked as a political editor for 16 years. He has been working for the online portal SALTO since 2014. Creator and director of several documentary films (received the prestigious […]
Dennis Frasch
As a cheese lover and bank apprentice, Dennis Frasch was well on his way to fulfilling all the clichés of a Swiss. Until he was told that he should think carefully about the impression he was making on his boss with his critical questions. Now he is a cheese lover and journalist. As a freelance […]
Eric Frey
Eric Frey is senior editor and chief editor at daily newspaper DER STANDARD. Over the course of his over three decades long career in the STANDARD editorial team, he has been serving as head of the departments of foreign policy, economics and managing editor. On a regular basis, he writes comments and analyses on numerous topics focusing […]
Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz
Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz is lawyer and spokesperson of asylkoordination österreich, a platform for NGOs working in the areas of asylum and integration in Austria. He is the editor of the annual AIDA report, the civil-society shadow report on developments and the status of the Austrian asylum and integration system. Before that, he used to work as policy […]
Claudia Garád
Claudia Garád is the managing director of Wikimedia Österreich. Additionally, she is a board member of the Cultural Broadcastings Archive (CBA) of the Association of Austrian Community Broadcasters and the Open Knowledge Maps.
Jacobo Garcia
Jacobo Garcia is an Spanish journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering the American continent. He was a correspondent for the newspaper El Mundo for Latin America, a correspondent for The Associated Press (AP) in Colombia and Venezuela, and later formed part of the El País delegation in Mexico. He has covered more than 30 elections throughout […]
Jenny García Ruales
Jenny García Ruales is an anthropologist, raised between the Pacific coast, the Andean mountains, and the Ecuadorian Amazon. Her biography weaves together being here and there, where activist writing and academia have taken her by the hand. She is pursuing her PhD at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Max Planck Institute for Social […]
Florian Gasser
Florian Gasser (*1981) is a journalist who has been head of ZEIT’s Vienna office since 2021. He studied political science in Innsbruck and Perugia and started as an editor at ZEIT Austria in 2011. Before that, he was an editor at the monthly magazine DATUM and a freelance journalist. In addition to Austrian domestic politics, […]
Lisa Maria Gasser
Lisa Maria Gasser is a freelance journalist writing for South Tyrolean media outlets as well as for media outlets outside of the province (e.g. for German weekly newspaper Die ZEIT). She is now 35 years old and studied in Trento and Vienna, from 2014 until 2021, she was member of the editorial team of the bilingual […]
Thomas Gatt
Thomas Gatt is a science communicator and graduate earth science student at the University of Innsbruck. During his studies he works closely with the Junge Uni Innsbruck and has been part of the team of the Earth Science Show Collection of the Institutes of Geology and Mineralogy and Petrography for 4 years. He gives workshops, guided tours, excursions and […]
Belachew Gebrewold
Belachew Gebrewold is professor for International Relations and head of the department for Social Policy and Management at the MCI Innsbruck. In his research, he focusses on migration, European-African relations and conflicts in Africa. His scientific publications include Africa and Fortress Europe (Ashgate 2008); Anatomy of Violence (Ashgate 2009); Global Security Triangle (Routledge 2013); Understanding […]
Konny Gellenbeck
Konny Gellenbeck was head of taz Cooperative and head of taz Panter Foundation in Berlin for many years. After graduating from university, she joined German daily newspaper taz in 1986. From 1996 onward, she developed the team of taz Cooperative and was head of this cooperative until 2020. Over the course of these years, Konny Gellenbeck was able to build […]
Márton Gergely
Márton Gergely is a Hungarian journalist and chief editor of the HVG, a weekly newspaper with the largest circulation and produced by one of the last free editorial teams of the country.
Jürgen Geuter/tante
Jürgen Geuter/tante studied Computer Science and Philosophy and works on the conceptualization, implementation and testing of new technologies as Research Director in a studio for spatial new media. As freelance consultant, writer, sociotechnologist and keynote speaker he focuses on issues at the intersection of technology, society and politics. He’s a founding member of the interdisciplinary Otherwise […]
Franziska Gilli
Franziska Gilli is a freelance photographer. Her work has been published by a number of newspapers and was awarded and exhibited at international photography festivals such as the Copenhagen Photo Festival. Homepage: www.franziskagilli.com
Katja Gloger
Katja Gloger studied Eastern European history, Political science and Slavic studies in Hamburg and Moscow. After graduating from the German School of Journalism in Munich, she became a TV-reporter for WDR Radio and Television in Cologne. From 1989 on she was based as correspondent for the weekly Stern in Moscow.. Gloger interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir […]
