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.
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.
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. […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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).
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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).
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.
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).
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 […]
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.
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, […]
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.
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
Alex Gröblacher
Alex Gröblacher is a journalist born in Bucharest. He is working for the German service of Radio Romania International and had also been a correspondent. Besides, he is working for TheBizz and the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Rumänien.
Monika Hauser
Monika Hauser is the founder and Executive Board Member of the women’s rights organisation medica mondiale, a feminist, non-governmental organisation based in Germany. Since its establishment in 1993, medica mondiale has been pursuing the task of confronting sexualised violence in war at all levels. Monika Hauser has been honored many times, including the Right Livelihood Award in 2008.
Irina Herasimovich
Iryna Herasimovich is a translator and essayist from Belarus. She was born in Minsk in 1978 and has been a freelance translator since 2009. She has translated works by Lukas Bärfuss, Georg Büchner, Monika Rinck, Nora Gomringer, Mehdi Moradpour, Jonas Lüscher, Michael Köhlmeier, Franz Hohler and Franz Kafka into Belarusian. She has already led the […]
Manuel Herz
Manuel Herz is an architect based in Basel with a keen interest in architecture and areas of migration. For his projects, he has received numerous international awards. His work has been exhibited worldwide and partly added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Nina Horaczek
Nina Horaczek, born in 1977, is a political scientist, journalist, book author and currently chief reporter for the Viennese weekly Falter. She has been working for many years on the topics of the New Right in Austria and Europe, the welfare state, migration, asylum and women’s rights. She is co-founder of the transnational research network […]
Lenz Jacobsen
Lenz Jacobsen is a journalist and has been an editor at ZEIT ONLINE since 2012. He studied economics, politics and sociology in Cologne and Istanbul. From 2017 to 2019, he was head of the politics, economy and society department there. Since then, he has reported mainly on issues concerning the state of democracy. Jacobsen has […]
Christian Jakob
Christian Jakob is working as a reporter for the Berlin newspaper taz. In 2015, he got nominated for the journalism award “Der lange Atem”. In 2017, he won the award “Otto-Brenner-Preis”.
Fritz Jergitsch
Fritz Jergitsch is an author and satirist. He is the founder of the satiric magazine Die Tagespresse. In 2015, the project was honoured with the Austrian cabaret award (Österreichischer Kabarettpreis).
Barbara Junge
Barbara Junge is a taz chief editor. In 2001, she was working as an US correspondent for the Tagesspiegel in Washington, where she covered the presidency of Barack Obama and the rise of Donald Trump.
Steffen Kanduth
Steffen Kanduth is the Tyrolean correspondent of the daily newspaper Der Standard. He has a keen interest in mobility and covers topics of the regions Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
Valery Karbalevich
Valery Karbalevich from Belarus is a political scientist. Since 1997 Karbalevich has been working as a political observer for the newspaper “Svobodnye Novosti” and since 1999 also for RFE/RL (Belarusian service). He is the author of several 1000 articles, working papers and research papers. His biography of Aleksandr Lukashenka, which is not available in Belarus, […]
Georg Kaser
Georg Kaser is a retired professor for Climate and Cryospheric Research at the University of Innsbruck. He is an expert in tropical glaciology and has served as Lead Author and as Review Editor in 3 consecutive IPCC Assessement cycles since 2004. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences between 2015 and 2021 and […]
Lucie Kirstein
Lucie Kirstein is a traffic scientist and policy adviser with main focus on regulation, competition and energy. Since October, she has been the head of the network Mobilität, Logistik, Luft- und Raumfahrt of Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering.
Veronika Knapp
Veronika Knapp is planning and organising education projects and events in the library Stadtbibliothek Innsbruck. For 17 years, she had been working for the Austrian NGO Südwind – Verein für globale Gerechtigkeit.
Gerald Knaus
Gerald Knaus is an Austrian social scientist and Chairperson of the European Stability Initiative (ESI), which is based in Berlin, Brussels and Vienna. He has worked for a number of NGOs and international organisations.
Daniela Kraus
Daniela Kraus is the general secretary of the Austrian Presseclub Concordia. She was both founder and head of the educational institution fjum_forum journalismus und medien, the managing director and founding shareholder of the Medienhaus Wien. She is a policy fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.
Ulrich Ladurner
Ulrich Ladurner works as a foreign correspondent for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and is the head of the Europabüro in Brussels of the ZEIT. He carried out investigations in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iran, Irak and other crisis zones.
Andrei Liankevich
Andrei Liankevich, born 1981, is a Belarusian photographer, lecturer for a course on Photojournalism at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania) and holds a position as managing director for the Month of Photography in Minsk (Belarus) which he has initiated in 2014. The annual photo festival unites 20 cultural institutions and 25 exhibitions. Liankevich has presented his photographic […]
Stefano Liberti
Stefano Liberti is an Italian journalist and writer, an expert on issues including agriculture and food supply chains. Liberti writes for Internazionale, L’Essenziale, La Repubblica, Le Monde diplomatique, Al Jazeera English, El pais semanal. In 2009, he received the Indro Montanelli literary prize for five years of research on the refugee routes south of Lampedusa […]
Ruben Loendersloot
Ruben Loendersloot has years of experience bringing people and organisations together in the field of mobility “to get things moving”. He is educated as a traffic and mobility planner and has specialised in cycle policymaking and implementation, always ready to build bridges (and bike lanes!) between various stakeholders. He is co-creator and initiator of various […]
Georg Löwisch
Georg Löwisch is the chief editor of Christ & Welt, which belongs to the publishing group ZEIT. He carried out investigations into sexual violence and covers-up in the Catholic Church.
Wolfgang Mayr
Wolfgang Mayr was born in Bolzano and is a journalist from South Tyrol. He used to be editor in chief of the regional service of the Italian public-service broadcaster Rai Südtirol. From 1982 until 1984, Mayr attended the German training institution for journalists Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich. For four years, he worked as an editor for South Tyrolean news magazine ff . […]
Gideon Mendel
Born in Johannesburg in 1959, Gideon Mendel began his career as a news and ‘struggle’ photographer documenting the final years of apartheid. In 1991 he moved to London, and continued to respond to global concerns, especially HIV/ AIDS. Since 2007, using stills and video, Mendel has been working on Drowning World; an art and advocacy project […]
Marzio G. Mian
Marzio G. Mian, 58, is an award-winning correspondent and author. He has been deputy editor-in-chief for the weekly magazine of Corriere della Sera for seven years and he’s now special contributor for Corriere della Sera, il Giornale, GQ Italy, RAI TV, SKY Italy, RSI Swiss Public Radio, Reportagen magazine. Mian founded The Arctic Times Project, a non-profit journalism association that focuses on the consequences of climate change […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
Johanna Small
Johanna Small has been an activist, facilitator and project leader for the international NGO DISCOVER FOOTBALL since 2010. The sport scientist uses football as a tool for empowerment and champions womxn’s rights, drawing from her own experiences of overcoming barriers in a patriarchal system as a player, coach, and association staff member. Her work has allowed her […]
Michael Sontheimer
Michael Sontheimer is a journalist and historian. He is one of the founders of the alternative daily newspaper taz. He has written ten books on political and historical topics. Currently, he is writing for the newspapers ZEIT, Spiegel and taz.
Marta Szymańska
Marta Szymańska is a photography curator from Poland. In 2014 she founded the Fotofestiwal – International Festival of Photography in Lodz. She also co-founded the Fotofestiwal Collective, which tests collective, democratic ways of working and managing a cultural project. Marta was a vice-director of the Archeology of Photography Foundation which deals with saving, developing, and promoting the […]
Gerlinde Tamerl
Gerlinde Tamerl, born 1978 in Innsbruck, is deputy managing director of Wagner’sche Buchhandlung. The art historian with a doctorate worked for fifteen years at Haymon Verlag as project manager and press spokesperson, among other positions. From 2018 to 2020, she worked as culture editor at the Tiroler Tageszeitung. Among other things, she is a guest […]
Robert Tibbo
Robert Tibbo is a Canadian human rights lawyer, currently practising law in Nova Scotia Canada. His current practise includes criminal, constitutional and administrative law. He also does work on commercial and labour litigation as well as family law. Mr. Tibbo appears at all levels of provincial and federal courts and does significant criminal appeal work. Previous […]
Haifa Tlili
As a sociologist (Rhéa, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), in 2019 she launched the reflection in France around the FFF Hijab ban. After having organized 2 panels in 2019 & 2020 with Fare Network and Women Win, the Hijabeuses were able to form a collective within Alliance Citoyenne. Since 2020 she has been accompanying them in an Action Research […]
Alois Vahrner
Alois Vahrner is one of the two editors-in-chief of the Tiroler Tageszeitung (TT).Vahrner was born on 5 December 1966 in Zams near Landeck. In 1988, he started at the Vienna branch of the Tiroler Tageszeitung as an editor in the business editorial department. In 1992, Vahrner moved to Innsbruck. After being appointed head of the […]
Céline Weimar-Dittmar
Céline Weimar-Dittmar is a freelance journalist and has been fighting the climate crisis since she was young. Her goal is to make people experience the consequences of the crisis through personal stories. Céline worked for the German daily taz from 2019 to March 2023 and is now working on new new climate formats, especially podcasts and films.
Hans Zollner
Hans Zollner is the director of the Institute of Anthropologyof the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He is theologist, psychologist and psychotherapist. Further, he is a co-founder of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and the academic editor of Religions.
Christina Zühlke
Christina’s research as journalist focuses on mainly two topics: “child abuse in church” and “police”. In 2021, her book Tatort Polizei – Gewalt, Rassismus und mangelnde Kontrolle (Crime scene police – Violence, racism and lack of control, C.H. Beck) was published, which she wrote together with Jan Keuchel. After a time as a reporter for the tagesschau […]
