03 Ι 04 Ι 05 May 2024

A weekend with a view

Look closely at what is happening.
Ilse Aichinger

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.