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.

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.

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 […]

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. 

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dorothee D’Aprile

Dorothee D’Aprile has been an editor at the German edition of Le Monde diplomatique, Berlin, since 2003.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Judith Goetz

Judith Goetz is a literature and political scientist and lecturer at various universities. She is focussing on women*/ gender, right-wing extremism and anti-feminism.

Luke Harding

Luke Harding is an award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian. He was based in Berlin 2003-2006 and was the Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief from 2007-2011. The Kremlin expelled him from Russia in the first case of its kind since the Cold War and in summer 2022 put him on an official blacklist. He is the author […]

Shoura Hashemi

Shoura Hashemi works for the diplomatic service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna. She was born in 1982 in Mashhad, Iran, and spent the first years of her life in hiding with her politically active parents. The family fled to Austria in 1987 and was granted political asylum. Since September 2022, Shoura Hashemi […]

Lucia Heisterkamp

Lucia Heisterkamp has been hosting SPIEGEL’s podcast “Inside Austria” since November 2021, together with colleagues from the STANDARD. She also works as a freelance writer for print, radio and TV for various German media such as rbb, Deutschlandfunk and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Her core topics are – besides Austrian domestic politics – flight and migration. She […]

Lisa Hepner

Lisa Hepner directed the feature documentary, The Human Trial, that followed a breakthrough clinical trial that might be the functional cure for type 1 diabetes. She is no stranger to non-fiction filmmaking. For the last 25 years, Lisa has produced a variety of films and programs for Sony Pictures Classics, HBO, A&E, PBS, Lifetime, Discovery, MTV, TLC, […]

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 […]

Julian Hessenthaler

Julian Hessenthaler, born in 1980, is a former security consultant. In 2017, he filmed the then FPÖ leader Heinz Christian Strache fantasising about power in Ibiza. The publication of this video two years later triggered corruption investigations that also ended Sebastian Kurz’s political career and continue to this day.

Martin Hogger

Martin Hogger grew up in Berchtesgadener Land, within sight of the Austrian border. After graduating from high school, then the obligatory stay in Vienna to study musicology and drop out. After that: Traineeship at the Passauer Neue Presse and a media and communications degree. Money for this came from writing jokes for BurgerKing and working […]

Sabine Hofer

Sabine Hofer studied medicine in Innsbruck and completed her specialist training in paediatrics and paediatric endocrinology and diabetology. During her one-year research stay at Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney, she came closer to her post-doctoral thesis on childhood diabetes. In 2017, the internationally well-connected diabetologist was congress president for the world’s largest paediatric diabetes meeting, […]

Karl Hoffmann

Karl Hoffmann is a journalist who lives in Palermo. Hoffmann started as a reporter in a small Franconian town, then was an editor, for a study visit to Paris, and finally a local reporter for five years at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich. From 1988 he was a freelance correspondent for the ARD radio station in […]

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 […]

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.

Heidy Kessler

Heidy Kessler is editor-in-chief of Rai Südtirol. Kessler, born in 1960, grew up in Dorf Tirol near Meran, studied economic and social history in Vienna and scienze politiche in Naples. She gained her first journalistic experience from 1982 at ORF in Vienna, Der Standard and Falter. She has worked at Rai Sender Bozen, now Rai […]

Matthias C. Kettemann

Matthias C. Kettemann is Professor of Innovation, Theory and Philosophy of Law and head of the Department for Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck.  He leads the University’s Quantum Ethics and Digital Diversity Law Labs. He leads research groups and programs at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, the […]

Jason Kirkpatrick

Jason Kirkpatrick is the Senior Communications Manager of RazomWeStand.org. He’s also the former Vice Mayor of Arcata, California, the “Greenest City in the USA”. He specializes in Political Strategy and Communications especially in USA and Europe, and has worked on climate issues for over 30 years.

Viktoria Klimpfinger

Viktoria Klimpfinger is a journalist who lives and works in Vienna, but feels at home wherever there are good stories. She studied acting, German and philosophy in Vienna and is editor-in-chief of the inspiration platform 1000things. As a freelance journalist, she has published articles on ze.tt, jetzt.de, at VICE and in the Wiener Zeitung. She […]

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.

Peter Kreysler

Peter Kreysler lives in Berlin and does investigative research for radio and television documentaries that have won several awards. For years he has been dealing with the issue of raw material dependency, as in the WDR-DLF radio feature “Rohstoff Roulette”.For the super election year 2021, the ARD radio feature “Virtuelle Propaganda – Doku über digitale […]

Katharina Kropshofer 

Katharina Kropshofer (*1993) is a reporter at Vienna based weekly newspaper Falter where she mainly writes for the climate and environmental beat. Before that she was a freelance producing radio features, podcasts for BBC, Seeker, Ö1; and writing for print publications such as Der Standard.

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.

Joachim Leitner

Joachim Leitner, born 1984 in Sterzing/South Tyrol, trained graphic designer, studied comparative literature, has been culture editor of the Tiroler Tageszeitung in Innsbruck since 2012. Occasional publications in “Literatur und Kritik” and “Quart – Heft für Kultur Tirol”. Member of the jury of the ORF Best List and the Austrian Book Prize (2023).

Sam Leon

Sam Leon is a data journalist with experience in both investigations and campaigning. He founded Data Desk at the end of 2022 — a consultancy that provides analytical and research services for groups working on the climate crisis. Before that he worked for the environmental NGO, Global Witness, where he built their digital investigations team. He studied Philosophy at Cambridge University and […]

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 […]

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.

Helen Lückge 

As freelance consultant, Helen Lückge supports strategic processes and concrete implementation projects in the areas of climate, environmental and transport policy. Finding solutions to cross-cutting challenges and how to deal with intersectoral interfaces are a special interest in her work – because many innovative forces lie at the friction points between sectors and topics. Accordingly, […]

Florian Madl

Florian Madl (born 1974), is a journalist at the Tiroler Tageszeitung. Madl is the father of 4 children. He studied sports science and German language and literature in Innsbruck and has worked at the Tiroler Tageszeitung since 1994, since 2007 as head of the sports department. Madl is a part-time gymnastics teacher at the Akadem. […]

Anastasia Magazowa 

Born in 1989 in the Crimea (Ukraine). Studied Ukrainian philology and journalism in Simferopol (Ukraine). Since 2013 author for the taz. From 2015 to 2018, she was a correspondent for Deutsche Welle (DW). Since 2020, she has been studying political science at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at the FU Berlin.  As a journalist, she is particularly […]

Stefan Mahlke

Stefan Mahlke has worked for Le Monde diplomatique Deutsche Ausgabe, Berlin, since 2006, among other things as a proofreader and editor; since 2019 he has been co-editor of the Atlas of Globalisation.

Ivana Marjanović

Ivana Marjanović is a curator and author. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; lived in Vienna from 2006 to 2018. Since 2019, she has been the artistic and managing director of KUNSTRAUM INNSBRUCK and part of the editorial team of the magazine “Migrazine” – online magazine by migrant women for everyone.  She graduated in Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University […]

Jochen Markett

Jochen Markett is the organizer and moderator of the Reporter Slams. This entertaining stage competition started in Berlin in 2016, and the show is now touring throughout Germany and abroad. The worldwide trend behind it is called “live journalism” – the combination of journalism and culture. The direct contact between the live audience and journalists makes […]

Alexander Markin

Alexander Markin was born in Moscow in 1974, where he studied literature and linguistics. He then appeared as a writer, translator (of Thomas Bernhard, Alfred Döblin, Theodor Lessing) and literary critic. He has lived in Zurich since 2004 and is currently a lecturer at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts. […]

Georg Mascolo

Georg Mascolo is a bestselling author and Journalist who worked for nearly 25 years for the Spiegel Group. From 2008 until 2013 he was Editor-in-Chief of Spiegel-Magazine. From 2014 until 2022 he was the head of the Joint Investigative Group which focuses on large-scale investigations as, for example, the so called Panama Papers. 

Marguerite Meyer

Marguerite Meyer is a journalist, author and poetry slammer from Zurich. As a journalist, her focus is on politics and society. Her journalistic career began at the news agencies AWP and APA as well as in the newsroom of the Swiss public service media company SRF. After serving as editor-in-chief of the youth TV channel […]

Adam Michnik

The Polish essayist and publicist Adam Michnik, born in 1946, who has received several awards for journalistic merits, has been editor-in-chief of the major liberal Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza for many years, which he co-founded in 1989. Michnik is one of the most influential intellectuals in Eastern Europe. As a student he was one […]

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.

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. 

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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). […]

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 […]

Sabīne Sīle 

Sabīne Sīle – Co-founder and Director of Sustainability Foundation in Latvia, managing Media Hub Riga. She is also board member of the International Civic Forum and an Advisory Board member of the Fix Media Foundation. Previously, the Director at the Centre for Media Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, the co-founder of the Social Entrepreneurship Association in Latvia and the first […]

Fabian Sommavilla

Fabian Sommavilla, born in Tyrol in 1993, has soon realized that he is a better writer than footballer, even though he remained passionate about sports. He studied in Innsbruck, The Hague and London with a focus on security policy, terrorism and border conflicts. In 2018 he joined the Austrian daily Der Standard, writing about international affairs. […]

Patrick Stegemann 

Patrick Stegemann is a journalist, author and podcast producer based in Berlin. He co-founded the award-winning production company Undone. As an investigative journalist he is reporting on the extreme right, their networks and mobilization strategies. In 2020 he co-authored “Die rechte Mobilmachung” (“The right-wing mobilization”) together with Sören Musyal. Stegemann has been awarded the Otto-Brenner Preis as well […]

Sandra Sperber

Sandra Sperber is an audio editor at the news magazine DER SPIEGEL. In 2017, she was one of the idea generators and hosts for the first SPIEGEL podcast: the politics format Stimmenfang. Since then, the podcast offering and the team behind it have grown. In 2019, the trained TV editor became head of the audio […]