Christian Mihr

Christian Mihr is a journalist, activist for human rights and an expert of international media politics. He is the managing director of the German section of Reporter ohne Grenzen and a member of the German commission for UNESCO.

Bascha Mika

Bascha Mika works as a journalist and publicist in Berlin. She used to be editor-in-chief for the “Frankfurter Rundschau” and “tageszeitung” (taz). Mika is a board member at the NGO “Reporters without Borders”, at the “taz-Panter-Foundation” and other institutions.  Mikas journalistic work focuses on the role of women in society as well as the balance […]

Verena Mischitz

Verena Mischitz works as a journalist and as video host for the Austrian newspaper Der Standard. In 2022 she received the Austrian award for environmental journalism as well as the Georg von Holtzbrinck award for scientific journalism.

Katharina Mittelstaedt 

Katharina Mittelstaedt is senior editor at Austrian daily newspaper DER STANDARD. As a journalist focusing on domestic policy, she mainly writes about political linkages, authors portraits, reports, and records podcasts on a regular basis. She also has a great passion for reporting on criminal cases. She was born in the US, is based in Salzburg, and has […]

Alexander Mitteräcker

Coming from a business background, Alexander Mitteräcker has been with DER STANDARD for 27 years. He established the paper’s online business from a very early stage and pushed the platform ‘derstandard.at’ from a start up to the company’s most important asset. In 2000 he became managing director and then member of the management board of derstandard.at. […]

Esther Mitterstieler

Esther Mitterstieler, born in 1968 in Völs am Schlern, is a journalist and Country Director of the ORF Regional Studio Tyrol. She has been a journalist for newspapers and magazines in Italy, Austria and Germany since 1994. She was editor at the “Dolomiten” in Bolzano, at “Der Standard” in Vienna and editor-in-chief at “Wirtschaftsblatt” and […]

Clara Moder

Clara Moder co-coordinates the Austrian conference on poverty an has been co-editing the book „Klimasoziale Politik. Eine gerechte und emissionsfreie Gesellschaft gestalten“ („Politics of Environmental Justice. Forming an Equal and Emission-Free Society“). She is focussing on sustainable work, participation, and questions of distribution considering the climate crisis. 

Magdalena Modler-El Abdaoui

Magdalena Modler-El Abdaoui has been working for many years at the interface of education, diversity and innovation issues in socio-political fields of potential and tension as a researcher, youth and adult educator, moderator and in an advisory capacity. Since 2022, she has been the programme director of the educational centres Haus der Begegnung / Innsbruck […]

Ed Moschitz

Ed Moschitz was born in Judenburg in Upper Styria in 1968. After completing an apprenticeship and his A-levels, he studied journalism, political science and sociology at the University of Vienna. During his studies, he began working at the radio stations FM4 and Österreich 1. He dedicated his master’s thesis to the topic of authenticity in […]

Pascale Müller

Pascale Müller is a German freelance investigative journalist and a member of the Selbstlaut Kollektiv. Her work mainly focuses on the exploitation of labour, sexual violence and organised crime. In 2019, she received the award Nannen-Preis for investigative achievements.

Salome Müller

Salome Müller works in the Swiss Office of ZEIT. She is author of the books “Genauso, nur anders. Junge Frauen* erzählen vom Erwachsenwerden” (Just like this, only different. Young women* tell their coming-of-age stories) (published by Kein & Aber Verlag 2023) and “Love, Pa. Briefe an meinen Vater” (Love, Pa. Letters to my Father) (published by Echtzeit […]

Julia Mumelter

Julia Mumelter was born in 1989 in South-Tirol. After studying political science in Siena and Munich she used to work as a producer for the ARD studio in Brussels. She then moved on to the Bavarian Broadcasting Organization (BR) in Munich where works as an editor and reporter in different locations. Since autumn 2022 Mumelter […]

Craig Murray

Craig Murray, born in 1958 in West Runton, Norfolk, is a Scottish journalist, historian, blogger and human rights activist. Between 2002 and 2004, he was the British Ambassador in Uzbekistan. After disclosing the practice of torture, Murray was forced to leave the diplomatic service. In 2002, Murray, then based in Uzbekistan, disclosed that the United Kingdom and […]

Sheila Mysorekar

Sheila Mysorekar is a journalist, chairperson of the network neue deutschen organisationen(ndo) and a board member of Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen (NdM). She works as a consultant for conflict-sensitive journalism and media in post-conflict-states for the Deutsche Welle Akademie. 

Mattia Nelles

Mattia Nelles is the CEO and co-founder of the German-Ukrainian Bureau, a boutique consultancy focused on research and strategic advisory to enhance German-Ukrainian relations at civil society, business, and the state levels. He served as a foreign policy advisor to a member of the Bundestag. Until the full-scale Russian invasion worked in Ukraine for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für […]

Giusi Nicolini

Between May 8th 2012 and June 12th 2017, Lampedusa-based Giusi Nicolini was mayor of the municipality Lampedusa and Linosa. As a historic representative of Legambiente she served as a longstanding director of the nature reserve of the isle of Lampedusa and has rendered herself conspicous fighting against illegal construction projects on the isle and for the protection of nature, especially […]

Rudi Novotny

Rudi Novotny is deputy head of the knowledge department at DIE ZEIT. He previously graduated from the German School of Journalism in Munich. He then completed his Bachelor’s degree in International Relations at the University of Essex. He completed his Master’s degree at the Hertie School of Governance. He joined DIE ZEIT in 2014 via […]

Irina Oberguggenberger

Irina Oberguggenberger was born in Innsbruck in 1989 and has been a journalist at ORF in Vienna since 2012. After the ORF Academy, she was an editor for “Zeit im Bild” and various domestic special programmes for several years. Later, she moved to channel management at ORF1, where she managed and was responsible for various […]

Frederik Obermaier

Frederik Obermaier is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, bestselling book author and co-founder of the Anti-Corruption Data Collective. Before founding Paper Trail Media, he was deputy head of investigations at Süddeutsche Zeitung – Germany’s biggest quality newspaper. He was, among others, part of the Offshore-Leaks, Luxembourg-Leaks, the Azerbaijani Laundromat and FinCEN-Files-investigations. Together with his colleague Bastian Obermayer Frederik Obermaier initiated […]

Bastian Obermayer

Bastian Obermayer is the head of the Department of Investigative Research of the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). In a joint collaboration of Der Spiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitunghe triggered the Ibiza affair in 2019.

Zehra Ömeroğlu

Zehra Ömeroğlu was born in April 1985. She has a degree in social sciences and business administration. Her professional career as a cartoonist began in the magazine Bayan Yanı, which began as a supplement to Leman and then became the only satirical magazine in the world composed mainly of women. Today she draws in Leman […]

Günther Pallaver

Günther Pallaver, Dr. jur. et Dr. phil., is em. university professor of political science with a focus on media and communication at the University of Innsbruck. After studying at the universities of Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna, Verona and London, he was a full-time journalist. He has been a member of the Italian Chamber of Journalists (Ordine dei […]

Patricia Pantel

Patricia Pantel is a freelance host, author, reporter and editor for radio and TV stations. Since the 90s, she has been working for different formats and editorial Teams of German public-service broadcasters ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.  (e.g. for the political format for a younger audience “Kanzlerbungalow” (chancellor’s bungalow) for WDR; the German-Polish magazine “Kowalski trifft […]

Dan and Lia Perjovschi

Dan Perjovschi With few lines Dan Perjovschi creates images that respond to global issues as well as everyday situations with wit, irony, and humour. For more than thirty years he has been commenting daily on what is happening around us. He developed recognizable reduced visual language, which synthesizes complex topics without taking away the complexity […]

Jean Peters

Jean Peters focusses his efforts on new forms of investigative research and creative publishing methods. He is an investigative journalist at CORRECTIV and was responsible for leading the ”Secret plan against Germany“ research. Before that, he investigated topics like climate change deniers, the Austrian judicial system in connection with the “Ibiza scandal” video and the former royal German dynasty Hohenzollern. […]

Verena Pliger

The journalist and moderator Verena Pliger has been the responsible director of ff – Das Südtiroler Wochenmagazin since March 2020. For this purpose, she moderates various major events, congresses and professional conferences in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She has versatile experience in the conception and coordination of print magazines; her interviews, portraits and reports on […]

Dominik Prantl

Dominik Prantl, born in 1977, is a journalist and author. He already financed his studies of economic geography, business administration and political science with articles for the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). He writes for the SZ and other media mainly about tourism policy, travel and Austria. Prantl has written several books such as the Gipfelbuch (SZ […]

Tigran Petrosyan

Tigran Petrosyan holds two doctorates in journalism. He is head of the Eastern Europe projects of the taz Panter Foundation. He is a reporter travelling in Eastern Europe. His journalistic specialisms include human rights, wars and conflicts in the post-Soviet region. He writes mainly for taz. die tageszeitung, ZEIT Online and Freitag. Editor of the […]

Daniel Pfurtscheller

Daniel Pfurtscheller has been researching and teaching as an assistant professor at the Department of German Studies at the University of Innsbruck since 2021. He holds a doctorate in linguistics and media studies with a focus on media language and visual communication. From 2020 to 2024, he was spokesperson for the Media Language and Media […]

Luca Pianesi

Luca Pianesi is a journalist. The law graduate founded the online newspaper il Dolomiti in 2016 after working at the daily newspapers il Trentino and Alto Adige and then at il FattoQuotidiano.it. He has headed Dolomiti.it since 1 September 2016 and the Italian newspaper for the high mountains, l’Altramontagna, since 2024.

Clemens Pig

Clemens Pig is the CEO of APA – Austria Press Agency (Vienna), vice president of the board of directors of the Swiss news agency group Keystone-SDA (Bern) and since April 2024 president of the Austrian Association of Cooperatives (ÖGV). Pig received his PhD from the University of Innsbruck in 2012 and is the author of numerous articles on politics and the […]

Maria Piok

Maria Piok, director of the Literaturhaus am Inn and research associate at the Brenner Archive Research Institute at the University of Innsbruck. She studied German and English and American Studies in Innsbruck and holds a doctorate in Modern German Literature.

Elisabeth Pittermann

Elisabeth Pittermann is health spokesperson of the Austrian Pensioners’ Association, PVÖ. The physician and former member of the Austrian parliament assumed this position in 2010.  After studying Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, she earned her PhD in 1971 sub auspiciis rei publica and started to work as a doctor at the Kanusch Hospital (HKH). […]

Arianna Poletti

Arianna Poletti is a freelance journalist and PhD candidate in political ecology at the School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia. She moved to Tunisia in 2019 after working for the French weekly magazine Jeune Afrique. Her work focuses on environmental, social, and postcolonial issues in North Africa and Europe. Her reports and investigations have been published […]

Khalida Popal

Khalida Popal began breaking down barriers and empowering women in Afghanistan in 2007 when she helped found the Afghan National Women’s Soccer Team. She served as the team captain, and she later became the first woman ever hired by the Afghanistan Football Federation. When it became clear that she was no longer safe in the […]

Pavle Popovic

Pavle Popovic spent several years as a trade journalist covering petrochemical markets. He then had a period working in public policy including a stint as a civil servant providing support to opposition councillors at a London local authority. Since joining the Ukraine team at Global Witness in 2023, he has worked on projects that pressurise Western fossil fuel […]

Alicia Prager

Alicia Prager is a journalist for the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard and is primarily engaged in research on climate and environmental policy. In the economics department she works both on daily news coverage and investigative research. Before, she used to work for the newsletter team of German daily newspaper Tagesspiegel Background and published articles as a freelance journalist for […]

Sonja Prieth

Sonja Prieth is an author and designer of radio contributions for ORF Radio Ö1. She works as a supervisor and coach, moderator and social scientist. In cultural, educational and research work, she deals with topics such as care and care culture, as well as issues of social justice. wortklangwelt.com

Denis Pscheidl

Denis Pscheidl is attending the German School of Journalism (DJS) in Munich, where he is learning all aspects of the journalist’s craft: from writing news and reports to producing podcasts and moderating in front of the camera. Denis Pscheidl initially obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of Innsbruck. After an internship at […]

Daniel Puntas Bernet

Daniel Puntas Bernet is the chief editor of the magazine REPORTAGEN. He had been working as a freelance journalist for ten years for Geo and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and as an editor of the NZZ am Sonntag as well.

Rocío Puntas Bernet

Rocío Puntas Bernet was born in Córdoba (Spain). She grew up in Tarifa, where she first discovered her passion for the ocean. After spending some time in London and Rennes (France), she settled down in Bern in 2003. Before her position as editor for Reportagen, she published for Spanish daily newspaper ABC and Swiss weekly newspaper NZZ am Sonntag. […]

Thomas Pupp

Thomas Pupp is founder and manager of Tirol KTM Cycling Team and was one of the main initiators of the 2018 Cycling World Championships in Innsbruck / Tyrol. Together with Gerhard Kapeller, he runs the cycling company Ride with passion, a name that reflects the way they operate and think. As a well-established elite training centre among the world’s best […]

Harry Putz

Harry Putz is a filmmaker in Tyrol. Putz started making mountain films in 1998 “as a passionate snowboarder” at the age of 25 alongside his career as a professional athlete. Since 2001, Putz has been working as a freelance filmmaker and also realises productions in the mountain and documentary film sector. Among other things, Putz […]

Inga Pylypchuk

Inga Pylypchuk (born in 1986 in Kyiv) is a Berlin-based documentary film maker and journalist.  In 2019 she began a study programme with film school filmArche in Berlin to become a documentary film director. Between 2013 and 2019, she worked from Berlin and Kyiv, where she wrote articles for German daily “Die Welt”, weekly “Welt am Sonntag”, […]

Julya Rabinowich

Julya Rabinowich, born in St. Petersburg in 1970, uprooted and repotted to Vienna in 1977, where she also studied. She is a writer and columnist for Der Standard and worked as an interpreter for many years. Published by Deuticke are Spaltkopf (2008, awarded the Rauriser Literaturpreis 2009, among others), Herznovelle (2011, nominated for the Prix […]

Parwana Rahmani

Parwana Rahmani is a journalist originally from Kabul, Afghanistan and currently living in Germany. She speaks six languages and holds a B.A in journalism and a M.A in Public Relation Administration from the university of Bucharest, Romania. Rahmani has been working in northern Afghanistan as a media analyst and journalist for the German ministry of Defence […]

Dunja Ramadan 

Dunja Ramadan is a political journalist for the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung since 2017. Her main topics are the MENA region, migration, integration and cultural diversity. She studied Arabic and Islamic studies as well as Jewish studies in Munich and Berlin and graduated at the Deutsche Journalistenschule Munich. In 2017 the Medium Magazin included her as one of the […]

Helga Ramsey-Kurz

Helga Ramsey-Kurz is professor for Anglophone Literature at the Department of English Studies at the University of Innsbruck, where she focusses her teaching and research on migration and refugee narratives. In 2017, she initiated the project ARENA (Archive of Refugee Encounter Narratives), where students collaborate with refugees in order to record their stories. As an international partner […]

Judith Raupp

Judith Raupp studied economics in Freiburg (Germany) and St. Catherines (Canada). After graduating, she worked for more than 20 years for German and Swiss media as a local, economic, and political editor and correspondent. In 2011, she resigned from Süddeutsche Zeitung to train journalists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among other things, she […]

Antonia Arbeiter-Rauth

Antonia Rauth is an audio editor at the Standard. She researches and hosts the weekly political podcast “Inside Austria”, which is produced in cooperation with SPIEGEL. She can also be heard regularly on the daily news podcast “Thema des Tages”. Born in Pitztal, she studied Comparative Literature and Media at the University of Innsbruck. During […]

Julia Regis

Julia Regis, born in 1989, studied history, cultural studies and literature in Munich and journalism in Leipzig. She is a journalist and currently works as an editor for the ARD political programme MONITOR. For several years, she has been focussing on the extreme right in Germany, the networks and ideology of the so-called New Right […]

Amelie Reigl

Amelie Reigl is a biologist. She specializes in cultivating human skin to reduce animal testing. With her planned biotech startup “TigerShark Science,” she aims to enhance research in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries by using complex in vitro skin models. In addition to her scientific work, she has established herself as @dieWissenschaftlerin. Engaging in science […]

Anja Reiter

Anja Reiter was born in 1988 in Graz. She studied journalism at the FH Joanneum in Graz. After that, she completed a master’s program in Eastern European History and Political Sciences at the LMU Munich. Today, she works as a freelance journalist for education, environment, and digitalization in Munich – for media such as Zeit, […]

Claudia Reiterer

Since 2017, she has moderated the ORF political talk show “Im Zentrum”. Prior to that, she moderated “konkret”, “Pressestunde”, “Report”, and “Hohes Haus”. She started at ORF 26 years ago in the Styria regional studio and then worked as a reporter for the ZIB 1 news in Vienna.Her journalistic career began in 1995 at the […]

Sandra Rendgen 

Sandra Rendgen is an editor and concept developer in digital journalism. She has published four comprehensive books on infographics and data visualisation, including “Information Graphics” (Taschen Verlag) and “The Minard System” (Princeton Architectural Press). She currently works intensively on visual communication, new journalistic narrative forms, illustration and graphics, and spends considerable time on social media. Previously, she studied […]

Christopher Resch

Christopher Resch is a press officer in Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) German section with a focus on the MENA region (Middle East and Northern Africa). He studied journalism and Arabic studies in Leipzig and Istanbul and then worked for the Goethe-Institut in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He is the editor of the anthology “Medienfreiheit in Ägypten” (von Halem […]

Maria Retter

Maria Retter joined paper trail media as investigative reporter in November 2023. She studied International Economics as well as Political Science in Innsbruck and Paris and completed various internships during her studies, including in the business department of DIE ZEIT in Hamburg and at ORF Tirol. After completing her studies, she worked for Swarovski for almost two […]

Olga Reznikova

Olga Reznikova a cultural scientist and university assistant for European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck. She specialises in research on urban topics and anti-Semitism as well as colonial history and racism in Russia. She first studied Jewish History and Middle-Eastern Culture at the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies and then continued her studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) […]

Gabriele Riedle

Gabriele Riedle (born in Stuttgart) holds a degree in Literary Studies, is former culture editor of German daily newspaper taz, and worked as a reporter and editor for GEO for more than 15 years.  Since 1998, she has been publishing reports from all continents, including areas torn by war and crises like Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Tibet, Darfur, Libya, Papua […]

Michael Riegner

Michael Riegner is assistant professor of public international law and international administrative law at Erfurt University. He holds a PhD in law from Humboldt University Berlin, an LLM from New York University, and studied law in Passau and Geneva. His published research covers international institutional law, human rights, global administrative law, as well as comparative constitutional […]

Monika Rittershaus

Monika Rittershaus, Berlin, is a freelance opera and theatre photographer and is considered one of the most successful and sought-after representatives of her profession.Rittershaus was born in Wuppertal. She studied philosophy, German language and literature and art history from 1982-1984, then photo and film design until 1992, graduating as a designer. She interrupted her studies […]

Dirk Rose

The Germanist Dirk Rose was born in 1976 in Erfurt (Thuringia) teaches as a professor for recent German literature and media studies at the University of Innsbruck. His scientific work focuses on cultural studies as well as language, literature and media.  

Camille Roseau

Camille Roseau works as a co-leader of WOZ, Switzerland’s biggest newspaper association. She is co-president of the association Verleger:innenverband Medien mit Zukunft and the president of Journafonds, a network supporting the funding of investigative journalism.

Mai Rosner 

Mai Rosner is a Senior Campaigner at climate advocacy group Global Witness, where she investigates and campaigns against conflict fossil fuels. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Mai has been researching links between the fossil fuel industry and war. These investigations into the oil majors funding and fuelling the war in Ukraine have forced major companies to […]

Sebastian Rötters

Sebastian Rötters is an energy campaigner at the environmental and human rights organization urgewald. In cooperation with partner organizations from the civil society network Business4Ukraine, he advocates for tougher sanctions against Russia, particularly in the energy sector. Otherwise, he has been working for over ten years on issues of supply chain responsibility in the field […]

Stefanie Ruep

Stefanie Ruep has been Salzburg correspondent for Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard since 2010 and works as an independent journalist. While she leads a car-free lifestyle in Salzburg, she is out and about in the mountains every week and published a hiking guide for public transportation users in 2023. As a lecturer for the study programme for Sports […]

David Runer

David Runer has been editor-in-chief of ORF in Bolzano since May 2023 and is thus responsible, among other things, for the news magazine “Südtirol heute”. Before that, he was the central editor-in-chief at the ORF regional studio in Innsbruck from 2019, after working as a reporter and presenter. The 38-year-old South Tyrolean deals with digital […]

Dirk Rupnow

Dirk Rupnow teaches as professor at the Institute for Contemporary History of the University of Innsbruck. For his scientific work, he received numerous international awards, such as the Fraenkel-Price der Wiener Library, London.

Gilda Sahebi

Gilda Sahebi was born in Iran and grew up in Germany. She is a certified doctor, political scientists and currently works as a freelance journalist, focussing on antisemitism, racism, women’s rights, the Middle East and science. Since the death of Jina Mahsa Amini she covers the current uprisings in Iran and published her book „„Unser Schwert […]

Daniela Sala

Daniela Sala is a photographer and journalist based in Rome, Italy. She has worked in Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Palestine. Her investigations and field reporting have explored subjects such as the water crisis in Syria, the drone war in Kurdistan and the impact of the oil industry in southern Iraq. She is a co-founder […]

Rebecca Sandbichler

Rebecca Sandbichler, born in Innsbruck in 1988, is a freelance journalist and event presenter. Her career began in the German state of Hesse, where she studied online journalism, founded her own magazines and was head of special publications at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. After the birth of her third child, she finally returned home to […]

Alessandra Sardoni

Alessandra Sardoni is an Italian television journalist based in Rome. She is a reporter for the political desk of the TV channel La7, mainly for the in-depth special programmes and election coverage. She also hosts the morning talk show Omnibus on La 7. After studying philosophy of language at La Sapienza University in Rome, Sardoni […]

Ruben Schaar

Ruben Schaar is an award-winning investigative journalist. After studying psychology in Berlin, he was trained at the German School of Journalism in Munich. Before joining paper trail media, Ruben published a non-fictional storytelling broadcast for the public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk and was awarded with the Gutenberg-Recherchepreis and nominated for the Nannen-Preis. In his work Ruben takes a closer look at […]

Julia Schafferhofer

Julia Schafferhofer has been working as a journalist for 20 years, and since 2010, she has been an editor at Kleine Zeitung, where she has worked in various departments such as health, magazine, science, city magazine G7, Graz, and foreign policy. In 2016, she arrived at her beloved department of culture and media, and since […]

Josef Scheiring

Dedicated citizen Josef Scheiring was born and raised in Vienna. Thanks to his Tyrolean roots he returned to Innsbruck in 2006. After completing his civil service, graduating in Process and Environment Engineering and a three-year side-trip to Upper Austria, he now lives in Völs and works for Radlobby Tirol. “I dedicate my free time to fight for a […]

Christian Schicklgruber

Christian Schicklgruber combined his PhD at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology with the study programme Tibetology and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. He carried out extensive field studies among Tibetan-speaking communities in the Himalayan countries and authored numerous publications on the topics social system and the syncretism of pre-Buddhist religious notions […]

Sonja Katharina Schiffers

Sonja Katharina Schiffers heads the South Caucasus office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, with headquarters in Tbilisi and a branch office in Yerevan. From January 2020 to April 2021, she worked at the German Bundestag; previously she was a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Eastern Europe and Eurasia division. From 2018-2024, she […]

Heidi Schleich

Heidi Schleich Mag. phil. (equivalent to M.A.) was born in 1965, is a linguist, speech trainer, systemic coach, holds different positions as speech trainer, tutor, lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, Alpine shepherdess, socio-pedagogic coach, works for different arts, culture and women’s projects, as well as for projects dedicated to minorities and refugees, in collaboration […]

Christiane Schlötzer

Christiane Schlötzer is a journalist and has been working as a correspondent in Turkey for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Tagesanzeiger (Zurich). She spent many years carried out investigations abroad and is co-founder of the NGO Journalists help Journalists.

Fabian Schmid

Fabian Schmid has been a senior editor (Investigative) at the STANDARD since 2023. Previously, he was deputy head of department for Politics and Chronicle. Schmid started as an editor at the STANDARD in 2013. He studied journalism and communication sciences in Vienna.

Doris Schmidauer

Doris Schmidauer, born in 1963, studied political science, initially worked as a specialist and later as managing director of the Green Club in parliament. She is the wife of the current Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen.

Colette M. Schmidt

Colette M. Schmidt is editor in the Department for Current Affairs and Domestic Policy at Austrian daily newspaper Standard in Vienna. She focusses on human rights, anti-democratic movements as well as national and international networks between right-wing extremists in the realm of politics and beyond.She was born in 1971 in Canada, grew up in Graz, where she […]

Renata Schmidtkunz

Renata Schmidtkunz, born in 1964 in Hattingen/Ruhr, has been working as a moderator, editor, and filmmaker in Vienna since 1990. Schmidtkunz is known, among other things, as the leader and later program manager of the ORF radio series “Im Gespräch” on Ö1. Schmidtkunz was raised in an evangelical parsonage in Lower Austria, Upper Austria, and […]

Ursula A. Schneider and Annette Steinsiek

Annette Steinsiek and Ursula A. Schneider work as literary scholars for the Research Institute Brennero Archive at the University of Innsbruck. They edited prose by Christine Lavant (e.g. „Das Wechselbälgchen“ (The Little Changeling), 1998; „Aufzeichnungen aus einem Irrenhaus“ (Records from an Asylum), 2001), her letters („Kommentierter Gesamtbriefwechsel“ (Commented Comprehensive Correspondence), publication impeded) and lyrical works by Christine Busta („Erfreuliche Bilanz. […]

Tatjana Schnell

Tatjana Schnell is a professor of Existential Psychology at MF Specialized University, Oslo and an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where she established the Existential Psychology Lab. She studied Psychology, Theology and Philosophy in Göttingen, London, Heidelberg and Cambridge/UK, earned her doctorate at Trier University and her habilitation at Innsbruck University. Schnell works on existential issues such […]

Julia Schnetzer

Julia Schnetzer, was born in 1985 in Munich, and has been conducting research on marine micro and macro organisms for years and years now. She studied Biology at the University of California in Merced and at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and earned her PhD in Marine Microbiology at the Max Planck Institute in Bremen. Between 2017 and 2020 […]

Nina Schnider 

Nina Schnider is editor and founder of relevant.news, an independent platform for solution-oriented journalism. Shaping collective experiences and democracy for tomorrow becomes the subject and driving force of her projects. The Swiss native is also co-founder of Demokratie21 and Faktor D – the hub for democracy in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Timo Schober

Timo Schober is an investigative reporter at paper trail media. He studied international business administration in Vienna and Bordeaux. During his studies, he worked as a freelance journalist for various media such as Falter, Der Standard, Zeit Online and Datum. He graduated from the German School of Journalism in Munich. For paper trail media, he was a […]

Till Schönwälder

Till Schönwälder is head of the Department for Religion and Questions of Meaning of Austrian weekly newspaper DIE FURCHE. Whilst pursuing his degree in History in Vienna, he gained first experiences in the area of journalism on religion in the context of internships and as a freelance journalist. This includes positions at Austrian public-broadcaster ORD Radio Ö1 and catholic […]

Philippe Schockweiler

Philippe Schockweiler, born in Luxembourg in 1985, organizes poetry slam shows in Luxembourg since 2015 with the Géisskan Kollektiv (lux. watering can). He is also a freelance journalist, media trainer for NGO & nonprofits communication, author and war correspondent. He has participated in over 100 poetry slam events and has also won several events (among others Trier, Cologne). […]

Oliver Schopf

Oliver Schopf is a political cartoonist. He was born in Kitzbühel in 1960 and now lives in Vienna. As a student, he started his cartoonist career for präsent. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As a freelancer he supports the Austrian newspapers Wochenpresse, Die Presse, and Neue Kronen Zeitung. Since 1988, he has been […]

Renate Schroeder

Renate Schroeder is the Director of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), in 1993 she joined the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and since 2003 she has worked for the EFJ. Her responsibilities include advocacy at the EU and Council of Europe levels, representing the EFJ at international meetings, delivering lectures, participating in fact-finding missions on […]

Rainer Schüller

Rainer Schüller is deputy editor-in-chief of the STANDARD. He studied journalism and English and during this time worked for the Austria Presse Agentur and a local newspaper. He started at derStandard.at in 2000 and has since been involved in setting up and developing the online edition. First as editor for politics, then department head of […]

Linus Schütz

Linus Schütz was born in 1993 in Stuttgart. He grew up in Essen, where he began taking dance and acting lessons at an early age. During his acting studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts between 2014 and 2018, he performed at the Ruhrfestspiele and in Adolf Winkelmann’s Ruhrgebiet film “Junges Licht”. In 2016, […]

Helga Schwarzwald

Helga Schwarzwald is supporting the development of Community Media in Austria and Europe. Following her career as the managing director of Radio Orange 94.0, she became the managing director of the Association of Austrian Community Broadcasters.

Alina Schwermer

Alina Schwermer is a freelance sports journalist writing for taz die Tageszeitung, Jungle World and Deutsche Welle among others. Her main focus is on the political and social aspects of sports with an emphasis on football. In March 2022 her new book Futopia (Verlag Die Werkstatt) was released where she develops utopian ideas for a better football and the society surrounding it. 

Eva Schwienbacher

Eva Schwienbacher was born in 1987 in Meran and is now editor in chief of Tyrolean street magazine 20erwhere she has been working since May 2024. She holds a degree in Communication Studies from the Universities of Bologna and Brussels and has professional experience in various areas of the media industry—from marketing, to PR, Corporate Publishing and journalism. […]

Nicole Selmer

Nicole Selmer is the deputy editor-in-chief of the football magazine ballesterer in Vienna. She came to sports journalism through a detour, having studied German and Scandinavian literary studies in Hamburg and Uppsala and worked as a freelance translator and copywriter. In 2004, she published a book about female fans (“Watching the Boys Play, Women as […]

Hannes Senfter

Hannes Senfter is a journalist in South Tyrol.  He was born in 1983 and grew up in Innichen, he then went on to study Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck; before starting his journalistic career as a regional editor for South Tyrolean daily newspaper Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung in Bozen/Bolzano in 2010. Since 2013, Senfter has […]

Olga Shparaga

Olga Shparaga is a Belarusian philosopher living in exile in Berlin. She is a member of the Coordination Council of the Belarusian oppositional politician Swetlana Tichanowskaja. She currently works as a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.