Ahmed Alnaouq
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, a collective that trains the next generation of Palestinian writers to publish their stories in English. Ahmed is also is a co-founder of Across the Wall, a media platform that tells Palestinian stories in Hebrew. Ahmed obtained a Chevening Scholarship to pursue a […]
Barbara Bachmann
Barbara Bachmann is a freelance reporter from South Tyrol. Her work mainly includes long-term projects, reports and portraits for newspapers and magazines such as Reportagen, the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and mare.
Biancka Arruda Miranda
Biancka Arruda Miranda was born in Brazil and has been living in Germany since 2017. She is a political scientist (with an M.A.), environmental and human rights activist, involved with the ecumenical office in Munich Öku-Büro e.V. and board member of KoBra- Kooperation Brasilien e.V. as well as Commit e.V. On radio channel Radio Lora München, she hosts the programme “in Brasilien […]
Marcus Bachmann
Marcus Bachmann is Advocacy and Humanitarian Affairs Advisor for Médecins Sans Frontières / Ärzte ohne Grenzen – Österreich. He has twenty years of international experience in complex humanitarian crisis situations. The Tyrolean has focused on emergency responses to natural disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Türkiye, in war and conflict zones, such as Afghanistan, […]
Werner Bätzing
Werner Bätzing, cultural geographer, is considered the doyen of Alpine research. He was born in 1949 in Kassel and grew up on the countryside of North Hesse. Between 1968 and 1974, he studied Evangelical Theology and Philosophy at the Bethel University and at the University of Tübingen and Heidelberg. Graduating with a first Theological Degree. […]
Antonio Baquero
Based in Barcelona, Antonio Baquero joined OCCRP in 2020 and is an investigative editor covering Europe and beyond. Before that, he made his professional career at El Periódico Catalunya, where he served as a correspondent in North Africa, specializing in migration, as well as a war reporter in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. As an investigative journalist, he received the […]
Philip Bauer
Philip Bauer is head of Austrian daily newspaper STANDARD’s Department of Sports. His article “Es gab Übergriffe von Trainern, Betreuern, Kollegen” (Assaults Were Committed by Trainers, Coaches and Colleagues) was awarded “Austria’s Story of the Year” at the 2018 Days of Journalism. In 2024, the contents were adapted to create the feature film “Persona Non Grata”. In […]
Claus Biegert
In 1973, journalist Claus Biegert (born in 1947) turned to the indigenous people of North America and to date has remained steadfast to them. In his work as author and film maker, he puts one spotlight on uranium, a radioactive ore that is mined globally—predominantly on the land of indigenous people and causes the destruction of their habitats that will […]
Nora Belghaus
Nora Belghaus was born in 1988 in Saarbrücken. She works as editor and reporter for German weekly wochentaz in Berlin and is in charge of the reading extracts in their societal section. She studied Social and Cultural Anthropology in Vienna and Berlin and received her journalistic training at the journalism school Reportageschule (formerly Reportageschule Zeitenspiegel). Her […]
Francesco Bellina
Francesco Bellina (Trapani, 1989) is a photographer based in Palermo. His artistic work focuses mainly on contemporary socio-political issues with a particular focus on the topics of migration and climate issues. He attended the Law faculty in Palermo and simultaneously dedicated himself to photography. His works have been published on major international media such as The […]
Christoph Berger-Schauer
While Christoph Berger-Schauer is originally from Kirchdorf / Krems in Upper Austria, he now lives in Vienna. Co-founder and Head of Content for Austrian mountain bike magazine LINES. He is all about the biker’s lifestyle. A holiday without his bicycle is beyond his imagination. Grateful for the opportunity to help shape the local mountain bike scene, he spares no […]
Eva Binder
Eva Binder is a Slavic studies scholar and publishes in the field of cultural, film and media studies. She is a research associate at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Innsbruck and academic director of the Eastern European Centre at the University of Innsbruck. Her work focuses on 20th century and contemporary […]
Janina Böck-Koroschitz
Janina Böck-Koroschitz was born in 1985 in Vienna. She studied History at the University of Vienna, was research associate for different book and exhibition projects dealing with subjects around the Nazi era and produced the documentary “Free Art” on street art in Tel Aviv in 2015. She is a freelance employee of the Austrian radio station Österreich 1 and […]
Christophe Boltanski
Christophe Boltanski is a French journalist and author. He wrote for the daily newspaper Liberation for a long time, was a war correspondent during the Second Gulf War and correspondent in Jerusalem and London, later at the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur (today: Le nouvel Obs) and editor-in-chief of the magazine Revue XXI. His reportages were […]
Ilja Braun
Ilja Braun works as an author and advisor for civil society organisations. He is a member of the German No-SLAPP association and used to be a member of the advocacy team of the German section of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Before that, he used to be advisor for topics related to media and digital policies for […]
Julia Breitkopf
Julia Breitkopf is journalist, podcast host and a PR pundit. She was born in 1985 in Gmunden/ Upper Austria, studied sociology in Vienna, Copenhagen and New York. Whilst pursuing her studies, she started her career as part of the editorial staff at the South Eastern Europe foreign studio of German public-service broadcaster ZDF. In collaboration with […]
Lisa-Katharina Breuer
Lisa-Katharina Breuer was born in 1995 in Hagen. She gained her first theatre-related experience in children’s and youth’s clubs as well as during internships in different technical areas at the Theatre of Hagen and the Theatre of Dortmund. She studied Arts and History, and Philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the Università degli […]
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 […]
Emily Busvine
Emily Busvine was born in Vienna in 1996, but grew up as a ‘third culture kid’ in Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow, among other places. She studied political science and social anthropology at the University of Cambridge and moved back to Vienna in 2018, where she completed a master’s degree at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. […]
Lucie Černá
Lucie Černá is an accredited solutions journalism trainer. At the moment, Lucie is on parental leave with her baby-daughter, before she led Transitions’ program promoting solutions journalism in Central and Eastern Europe and coordinated activities supporting solutions-oriented reporting in more than 10 countries. She has been involved in the topic since 2017, and now acts as a trainer and […]
Giorgos Christides
Giorgos Christides (born in 1976) is a Greece-based investigative journalist focusing on migration. For more than a decade, he has reported for international outlets, including Der Spiegel (2012-2024), German public-service broadcasters ARD, the BBC, DW and the Guardian. He was bestowed with several journalism awards for investigations focusing on migration (the 2023 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism; […]
Katharina Cibulka
Katharina Cibulka lives in Innsbruck and works in Innsbruck and Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (art and digital media and performance art), the Vienna School of Artistic Photography and the New York Film Academy. Cibulka is co-founder of the women’s band telenovela and the artist group peek a corner. Works […]
Caterina D’Osualdo
Caterina D’Osualdo has been a civil judge in Italy since 2003, first employed at the Tribunal of Marsala (2003 – 2008) and then at the Tribunal of Como (2008 – 2019). From 2019 to 2021 she has been seconded to the Ministry of Justice in Italy, where she has worked for the Directorate General of […]
Toni Ebner
Toni Ebner is editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Dolomiten, Bolzano.Born in Bolzano in 1957, he studied Austrian and Italian law at the University of Innsbruck after graduating from the Walther von der Vogelweide Humanistic High School. He began his journalistic career as a freelancer for the Innsbruck Dolomiten editorial office. He was an editorial trainee […]
Margit Ehrenhöfer
Margit Ehrenhöfer, born in Mistelbach in 1993, studied theatre, film and media studies as well as journalism and new media. She has been an editor at the daily newspaper “Der Standard” since 2022. She is mainly part of the Audio & Video team for the podcasts “Topic of the Day” and “Inside Austria”. Before that, […]
Markus Ender
Markus Ender earned his doctorate in Literary Studies and works as a Senior Scientist at the Research Institute Brennero Archive at the University of Innsbruck. He focuses his research and teaching efforts on Austrian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, edition philology, and literary as well as cultural theories. He is co-editor of the […]
Hannah Espín Grau
Hannah Espín Grau holds a degree in Political and Legal Sciences from the University of Münster. Since 2018, she has been focusing her research on excessive police violence and the way such incidents are dealt with. She is research associate for Prof. Dr. Tobias Singelnstein (Goethe University Frankfurt) and co-author of the study “Gewalt im Amt” […]
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 […]
Emran Feroz
Emran Feroz, born in 1991, is an award-winning writer, journalist and war reporter with a focus on the Middle East and Central Asia. His reporting has appeared in Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Intercept and many other publications. He is the author of Death at the Push of a Button (2017), about the US drone warfare, and is […]
Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu
Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu is a writer and poet, born in 1981 and raised in Eritrea. Living in Munich, Germany since December 2018, was a scholarship holder for Pen Germany. She published her work extensively in Eritrea’s mass media since the late 1990th. She was a co-founder of the well-known “the Literary Club of Adi-keyh.” She went […]
Christoph Franceschini
Christoph Franceschini has been working as an investigative journalist for 35 years. He was part of the founding team of the Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung, where he worked as a political editor for 16 years. He has been working for the online portal SALTO since 2014. Creator and director of several documentary films (received the prestigious […]
Dennis Frasch
As a cheese lover and bank apprentice, Dennis Frasch was well on his way to fulfilling all the clichés of a Swiss. Until he was told that he should think carefully about the impression he was making on his boss with his critical questions. Now he is a cheese lover and journalist. As a freelance […]
Eric Frey
Eric Frey is senior editor and chief editor at daily newspaper DER STANDARD. Over the course of his over three decades long career in the STANDARD editorial team, he has been serving as head of the departments of foreign policy, economics and managing editor. On a regular basis, he writes comments and analyses on numerous topics focusing […]
Florian Gasser
Florian Gasser (*1981) is a journalist who has been head of ZEIT’s Vienna office since 2021. He studied political science in Innsbruck and Perugia and started as an editor at ZEIT Austria in 2011. Before that, he was an editor at the monthly magazine DATUM and a freelance journalist. In addition to Austrian domestic politics, […]
Lisa Maria Gasser
Lisa Maria Gasser is a freelance journalist writing for South Tyrolean media outlets as well as for media outlets outside of the province (e.g. for German weekly newspaper Die ZEIT). She is now 35 years old and studied in Trento and Vienna, from 2014 until 2021, she was member of the editorial team of the bilingual […]
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.
Elisabeth Grabner-Niel
Elisabeth Grabner-Niel, Mag.a phil. (equivalent to M.A.), earned her degree in languages (French, English) at the University of Innsbruck and is a graduate of the Foundational Studies Programme in Feminism at the Rosa Mayreder College in Vienna. She was active in the feminist field for decades, both professionally and on a voluntary basis. Among other […]
Inge Günther
Inge Guenther, worked more than 20 years as Jerusalem correspondent for German daily newspapers, mainly Frankfurter Rundschau and Berliner Zeitung. She got several prices in Germany for her reporting about Israel and Palestine, like the prize of the Deutsche Initiative für den Nahen Osten (DINO) in 2017. Since 2018 she is working as freelancer in Berlin, but still has a “second […]
Deniss Hanovs
Dr. Deniss Hanovs, a cultural scientist and professor at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga was born in Riga in 1977. He earned his PhD with his research on middle-class press and nation in the Baltic provinces in the 19th century. As a researcher he developed an interest for the culture of remembrance in the post-colonial societies […]
Sven Hansen
Sven Hansen is senior editor Asia-desk of the Berlin based daily taz since 1997 and a regular contributor to the Vienna based developmental magazine Südwind since 1995. For Le Monde diplomatique Germany he published the editions on Afghanistan, China, India and Southeast Asia. During his studies of political science he had volunteered in setting up a developmental […]
Axel Hein
Axel Hein studied marine biology at the University of Salzburg focusing on marine mammals. After several seaside stays abroad, where he worked as a scientific diver responsible for the replenishment and quarantine periods of a public aquarium, he returned back to his home turf. Since 2009, he has been working for the marine programme of WWF Austria and […]
Ellen Heinrichs
As founder and CEO of Bonn Institute, Ellen Heinrichs advocates for a form of journalism that places information interests of people at the core and creates added value for democratic societies. To do this, the charitable Bonn Institute collaborates with editorial teams and media representatives in order to pave the way to a solution-oriented form of journalism that opens […]
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 […]
Alexander Herbig
Following his graduation and doctorate in Bioinformatics and his first lectureship at the University of Tübingen, Alexander Herbig has been head of the research group Computational Pathogenomics, which is part of the Department of Archaeogenetics at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.The research group mainly focusses on exploring the evolution of different human pathogens, e.g. the plague, by […]
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 […]
Olesia Horiainova
Olesia Horiainova is a co-founder of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, a think-tank based in Kyiv, Ukraine, a strategic communications expert, communications Advisor to the Command of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2022). With the USCC team for 10 years: studies Russian hybrid warfare in Ukraine, in particular, she […]
Michael Hornsby
Michael Hornsby is a co-founder of Oblique Collective, a production agency producing documentary-style films to support positive change in the fields of climate, human rights and democracy. He has over a decade of experience as a writer, public relations consultant and strategic communications specialist. In addition to his work with Oblique Collective, Michael helps run the […]
Daniela Ingruber
Daniela Ingruber works as a Democracy and War researcher at the Institute for Strategic Analysis in Vienna. Before that she was employed at the University for Continuing Education Krems. From 2012 until 2016, she was head of the Department of Media & Conflict at the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. After completing missions in areas […]
Toni Innauer
“Mister Ski Jumping” – Toni Innauer (born 1958 in Vorarlberg) rightly bears this title. His time as an athlete, coach and sports director at the Austrian Ski Association made him an international icon: outstanding successes – but also dramatic setbacks – have accompanied him over the years. During his 17-year tenure as sports director, Innauer […]
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”.
Ivona Jelčić
Ivona Jelčić (born in 1975) is a freelance journalist, author and host. She writes for Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard, street paper 20er and other media outlets. Doing so, she focusses on art, culture, and socio-political topics as well as columns on the culture of building and catalogue articles. She was Head of the Culture Department of Austrian […]
Grażyna Jurewicz
Grażyna Jurewicz is historian of ideas, author and systemic coach. Her research interests revolve around the anthropology of the Enlightenment, Jewish philosophy, as well as theoretical and practical aspects of life historical storytelling. She has been employed at several national and international research and teaching institutions, with her most current position being junior professor for Jewish […]
Marc Kappeler
Marc Kappeler is founder of the internationally renowned Zurich-based graphic design studio Moiré, which is also responsible for the Bern-based magazine Reportagen. Following his training as a graphic designer in an advertising agency in Bern, Kappeler moved to Zurich in order to pursue his B.A. studies. In 2000, he founded the graphic design studio Moiré with Markus […]
Hasnain Kazim
Hasnain Kazim was born in 1974 in Oldenburg and is the son of Indian-Pakistan immigrants. He grew up in Hollern-Twielenfleth in the area of Altes Land, just outside Hamburg, and in Karachi in Pakistan, studied political science and started his career as a naval officer. He learned the journalistic ropes in the German federal State Swabia […]
Maribel Königer
Maribel Königer is Director of Communications, Journalism, and Media at ERSTE Foundation in Vienna and is responsible for programmes for facilitating investigative journalism and free media in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Since September 2023 she has held the position of representative of ERSTE Foundation on the Supervisory Board of PLURALIS. After graduating in Arts and History in […]
Matthias Krapf
Matthias Krapf has been editor-in-chief of the Tiroler Tageszeitung since 2023. Born in Innsbruck in 1979, he had previously held various journalistic and publishing positions at Moser Holding, whose flagship publication is the Tiroler Tageszeitung, since 2006.
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.
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.
Teseo La Marca
Teseo La Marca grew up in the rustic idyll of a South Tyrolean mountain village. It is these conditions that might have sparked his strive to explore the “big” world. However, his investigative itineraries mostly led him to small mountain villages in Southern and Eastern Europe or in the Middle East. His interviews and reports were […]
Lukas Ladner
Lukas Ladner was born in Innsbruck in 1991 and is part of the editorial team of the UND magazine. He studied film and television directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and comparative literature at the University of Innsbruck. He has been working as a filmmaker and media artist for over ten years. He […]
Nina Lamparski
Nina Lamparski heads the award-winning digital research team in the Africa section for the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). Since 2020, she has been supervising over a dozen local journalists who check fake news on the internet on location across the continent. Having grown up in Luxembourg, Nina was drawn to travelling at an […]
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).
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 […]
Christine Liehr
Christine Liehr is involved with organising and designing stage performances for live journalism. Pursuing study programmes in Economics and Journalism, she made her way to America and England. She subsequently worked at a Social Enterprise in Cambodia for three years, before being engaged in the area of media development work for ten years. She had […]
Hanno Loewy
Hanno Loewy, Dr phil, born 1961 in Frankfurt am Main, literature and film scholar, exhibition organiser and publicist. From 1995 to 2000 founding director of the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main, since 2004 director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems in Austria. Since 2001, he has also been a lecturer at the University of […]
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.
Laurin Lorenz
Laurin Lorenz (born in 1992 in Innsbruck) studied International Development in Vienna and Political Theory in York. He is a founding member of the news team of Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard and has held the position of Deputy Editor since 2022. In this role, he is (co-)responsible for quick news and successful live formats like the ticker on […]
Beatrice Lugger
Beatrice Lugger is Managing Director of NaWik, the National Institute for Science Communication gGmbH. She is a science journalist, social media expert and chemist. She has worked for almost two decades for numerous German print and online media, including Politische Ökologie, SZ, FOCUS and WIRED. She set up the platform for blogging researchers ScienceBlogs.de. She […]
Helena Lea Manhartsberger
Photographer and video journalist Helena Lea Manhartsberger operates on a global scale; but is based in Vienna. Before pursuing her study programme in Photo Journalism in Hannover and Aarhus, she studied International Development in Vienna and Photography in Yogyakarta. In her work, she predominantly delves into topics like sexuality, identity, migration, armed conflicts and social movements. Intensive encounters […]
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 […]
Fyras Mawazini
Fyras Mawazini has been the Director of International Development for SOS MEDITERRANEE since the summer of 2023. Although he helped found SOS MEDITERRANEE in 2015 and has volunteered since, he recently joined the executive team to lead its International Development efforts. In his current role, he focuses on strengthening and expanding SOS MEDITERRANEE’s position as a prominent […]
Wolfger Mayrhofer
Wolfger Mayrhofer is Deputy Secretary General of the Alpine Convention. He earned his PhD in Law, studied Philosophy as well as Slavonic studies—in Vienna, Innsbruck and Moscow—and completed a post-graduate programme on European integration for public administration. For almost 30 years now, Wolfger Mayrhofer has been involved with cross-border collaboration in the Alpine area and has […]
Dajana Mehadžić
Dajana Mehadžić has been working as a multilingual counsellor at the Centre for Migrants in Tyrol (ZeMiT) since 2018. The focus of her work is always on entering into dialogue with other people. Among other things, she led the Dominoeffekt project in 2023, which aimed to connect actors and organisations from the art, culture and […]
Edith Meinhart
Edith Meinhart is a freelance journalist and author. From 1998 to 2023, she was an editor at the Austrian news magazine profil. Here she focussed on issues of migration, social inequality and socio-political and human rights topics. Born in Upper Austria, she has received several awards for her social reportage, including the Claus Gatterer Prize […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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”, […]
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 […]
