Katerina Abramova

Katerina Abramova is the Head of Communications and deputy CEO at Meduza — the largest remaining independent Russian news outlet published in both Russian and English. She also oversees Meduza’s crowdfunding and fundraising efforts. Before joining Meduza, Katerina worked at one of Russia’s largest charitable foundations and managed various cultural projects.

Catherine André

Catherine André is a journalist for over 35 years, cofounder and Editorial director of Voxeurop since 2015. She has been a member of the Jury of the European Cartoon Award (ECA) for the last three years and was Chair of the 2024 Jury. She is a member of the Jury of the Louise Weiss Prize for European journalism, […]

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.

Tekla Aslanishvili

Tekla Aslanishvili is an artist and film maker, based in Berlin and Tbilisi.She is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is a fellow at the graduate school of the Berlin University of the Arts.After earning her degree at the State Art Academy of Tbilisi (2009), she completed […]

Anita Bernacchia

Anita Bernacchia is a freelance journalist and editorial translator. She has written about EU and Eastern European politics (Romania and Moldova) for several publications, including voxeurop, Linkiesta, Eunews.it and a few press agencies. She is occasionally a news correspondent for Radio Radicale, Radio Svizzera Italiana, Cusano Italia TV and has a deep knowledge in Romanian contemporary culture […]

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 […]

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. […]

Dieter Bornemann

Dieter Bornemann (born 1967 in Graz) is Chairman of the ORF Editorial Board, editor oft he main news-programm „ZiB“ and host of the weekly business magazine ECO. He joined ORF radio in 1992, was EU correspondent in Brussels and has been a member of the ZiB editorial team since 1998. As Chairman of the Editorial […]

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 […]

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 […]

Jannis Brühl

Jannis Brühl was born in Nürnberg and is head of the digital team of German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. He covers digital economy, social media, artificial intelligence and big tech. He holds a degree in Politics and American Studies at the Universities of Erlangen and Portland, Oregon. After his traineeship with the online version of Süddeutsche Zeitung, […]

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 […]

Annika Brockschmidt

Annika Brockschmidt studied History, German Studies, and War and Conflict Studies in Heidelberg, Durham and Potsdam. She is a freelance journalist and author, Worked for the capital city studio of German public-broadcaster ZDF and produces the podcasts “Kreuz und Flagge” And “Feminist Shelf Control”. She is senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches and writes for example for German daily […]

Christo Buschek

Pullitzer Prize winner Christo Buschek works as an investigative journalist and software developer and focusses on the intersection between journalism and technology. He currently works for media outlets like German  magazine Der Spiegel and Paper Trail Media; and he is senior fellow of Mozilla Foundation. Buschek’s works are dedicated to disclosing human-rights violations, developing tools and methodologies for data-based research […]

Georg Cadeggianini

Georg Cadeggianini is an editor for German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung where he works for the Weekend Department as well as for the newspaper’s children’s page. He grew up as the fifth of six brothers. Humour can sometimes act like an umbrella in that context. Cadeggianini has seven children between the age of 11 and 25. He can […]

Choir of Diversity

The exact number of diverse members remains unknown. Usually, 80 to 100 will show up to rehearsals. Same goes for performances. The E-Mail-Distribution-List reaches hundreds of names and they increase in number week by week. Some of them do not sing in the choir anymore, others decided to take a break. But hardly anyone would […]

Katharina Christ

Since the 1st of March 2025, Katharina Christ has been a senior researcher at the German National Institute for Science Communication in Karlsruhe. She earned her PhD in Media Studies and used to be research associate at the University of Trier as well as the University of Innsbruck. In her research, she focuses on the intersection between science […]

Esther Csapo

Esther Csapo, born in Carinthia in Austria, hosts and creates ZIB Zack Mini, the news programme of Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF. For 20 years, Csapo was working as host and editor for Radio FM4. In 2019, she then joined ORF 1 where she now produces ZIB Zack, the news programme of Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF. Before her career […]

Emanuele Del Rosso

Emanuele Del Rosso is an Italian communication specialist and award-winning political cartoonist. He publishes his cartoons in several magazines and online newspapers. Among them: Le Monde, Washington Post, Courrier International, Charlie Hebdo, Het Financieele Dagblad, Le Temps, The Japan Times, the Nation. Since 2016, he has been a member of the Cartoon Movement, and since 2020 a member […]

Can Dündar

Can Dündar has been working as a journalist for the last 43 years, for several newspapers and magazines. He produced many TV documentaries focusing particularly on modern Turkish history and cultural anthropology. He worked as an anchorman for several news channels. He stepped down from his post as the editor in chief of the daily Cumhuriyet in 2016, […]

Katharina Dönhoff

Katharina Dönhoff, studied photography, has been advocating for Yazidi refugees since 2015. In 2019, together with her husband she founded the association  HAND FÜR HAND e.V. (Hand for Hand), committed to opening up perspectives in the countries of origin—by providing education, kick-start support and a voice for minorities. Establishing an education institution for Yazidi domestic refugees in […]

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 […]

Michael Fuchs

Michael Fuchs holds a doctorate degree in English and American studies from the University of Graz (Austria). Since 2022, he has been working in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. His research and teaching focuses on popular culture across media, with particular interests in environmental questions and inter-/cross-medial relations.

Benjamin Emonts

Benjamin Emonts will soon turn 40 and is a freelance journalist. At the moment, he mainly writes for German online magazine Zeit Online and Munich magazine for homeless individuals BISS. In his articles, he mostly covers economic and social issues. Before that, he used to work for German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) for 12 years. This is also […]

Lea Ernst

Lea Ernst had not tried the slightest hint of LSD, until, in 2022, she participated at a scientific DMT study for a report in a Swiss hospital: The perhaps most potent hallucinogen in the world was directly administered into her veins. In Innsbruck, she will take to the stage and tell us how the drug smashed […]

Franz Essl

Franz Essl is professor and biodiversity researcher at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna. He is considered one of the leading experts in biodiversity research; and over the past few years, his name has consistently appeared on the list of the world’s most cited scientists. In addition to that, he is […]

Matthias Fleischmann

Matthias Fleischmann is a journalist from South Tyrol. Whilst pursuing his degree in Politics and Literary Studies in Innsbruck he first set foot in the world of journalism assuming the role of editor in chief of UNIpress. He then went on to work for various media outlets including the South Tyrolean weekly magazine ff, student magazine Skolast and online magazine SichtWeisen published by the Internationales […]

Mattea Fo

Mattea Fo has been director of Dario Fo and Franca Rame Foundation since 2019. Mattea Fo studied Art and Humanities; and since 2011, she has been collaborating closely with her grandparents, playwright and director Dario Fo and playwright and actress Franca Rame. Both of them used to be engaged in political and social issues. The foundation was established in their […]

Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz

Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz is lawyer and spokesperson of asylkoordination österreich, a platform for NGOs working in the areas of asylum and integration in Austria. He is the editor of the annual AIDA report, the civil-society shadow report on developments and the status of the Austrian asylum and integration system. Before that, he used to work as policy […]

Jenny García Ruales

Jenny García Ruales is an anthropologist, raised between the Pacific coast, the Andean mountains, and the Ecuadorian Amazon. Her biography weaves together being here and there, where activist writing and academia have taken her by the hand. She is pursuing her PhD at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Max Planck Institute for Social […]

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, […]

Belachew Gebrewold

Belachew Gebrewold is professor for International Relations and head of the department for Social Policy and Management at the MCI Innsbruck. In his research, he focusses on migration, European-African relations and conflicts in Africa. His scientific publications include Africa and Fortress Europe (Ashgate 2008); Anatomy of Violence (Ashgate 2009); Global Security Triangle (Routledge 2013); Understanding […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Susanne Gurschler

Susanne Gurschler Mag. Phil (equivalent to M.A.) studied a subject combination in German Studies at the University of Innsbruck. Since 1998, she has been working as a freelance journalist,  non-fiction author (areas of focus: Art, culture, architecture, regional and cultural history), and poet. She is based in Innsbruck, writes reports, portraits and articles for magazines, annuals, […]

Michael Haupt

Michael Haupt studied Educational Science and is chief executive of the initiative for minorities in Tyrol. Since 2016, he has intensively explored Yenish history and present. In collaboration with Bernhard Schneider, he established the Yenish Archive; and since June 2024, he has been conducting scientific research as part of the project “‘Ich hab das nicht akzeptiert!‘ Jenische […]

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 […]

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 […]

Siruan H. Hossein

Siruan H. Hossein is a Syrian-Kurdish journalist and media advocate dedicated to local journalism and media diversity. He is based in Germany. As the founder and General Manager of Radio ARTA, a Syrian independent radio station, he has revolutionized community-based journalism in Syria by providing alternative and multilingual platforms in Kurdish, Arabic, Syriac, and Armenian. His work […]

Frauke Huber und Uwe H. Martin

Frauke Huber and Uwe H. Martin have been documenting social and ecological consequences of global agriculture since 2007. Their project named LandRush employs traditional journalistic publications, linear web documentations, interactive apps, spatial installations using multi-channel videos, conferences, and performances to showcase their research in journalistic, artistic and academic context on a global scale. In addition to that,  they established the development […]

Isabella Huser

Isabella Huser, author, based in Zurich and Berlin. Her most recent publication is “Zigeuner” (Gypsies), a family saga that spans over two centuries and is based on ancestral research on her own father’s family and the persecution of the Yenish in Switzerland in the 19th and 20th century (published by Bilgerverlag, 2nd edition 2024). Huser studied Translation in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Minitta & Melanie Kandlbauer

Kandlbauer Minitta & Melanie: The two sisters were born in 1990 and 1995 and work as anti-racism coaches. Together they have travelled more than 40 countries. They are the editors behind the book “War das jetzt rassistisch?” (Was That Racist?) (Leykam 2022). They will join Journalismusfest 2025 with their current book “Gute Nachrichten aus aller Welt – […]

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 […]

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 […]

Stefan Klausner

Stefan Klausner (born in 1985) studied Architecture in Innsbruck and Montpellier; and as part of his master’s thesis he curated the estate of Innsbruck architect Norbert Fritz (1935-2006) in the archive for construction, art and history at the University of Innsbruck. After graduating, for two years, he worked as a project lead in a Munich-based […]

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.

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.

Kilian Land

Kilian Land, was born in 1990 in Halle/Saale, and first entered the world of theatre in the youth club of the Theatre of Magdeburg. After his A-levels, he spent one year in Kenya where he completed his civil service at an elementary school. In 2011 he started his training programme at the acting school Hochschule für […]

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).

Silvia Lieb

Silvia Lieb, born in 1970, is chairwoman of Moser Holding AG, one of the leading media outlets in Austria (comprises for example daily newspaper Tiroler Tageszeitung, Life Radio Tirol, group of regional media Regionalmedien Austria, group of regional lifestyle magazines Bundesländerinnen). After earning her degree in Economics at the University of Innsbruck, she began her media […]

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 […]

Gabriel Lipuš

Gabriel Lipuš from Eisenkappel-Vellach has been chief executive of the bilingual Slovenian-German radio station Freier Radio AGORA 105 I 5 in Klagenfurt-Celovec. Lipuš is a Carinthian Slovene. Radio Agora first went live on air in 1998. Since 1998, Gabriel Lipuš has been chairperson and artistic director of the musical theatre GABRIEL. In this role, he has led and […]

Juliane Löffler 

Juliane Löffler was born in 1986 in Frankfurt am Main. She studied Cultural Studies, Spanish Philology and German as a Foreign Language at the University of Potsdam and Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute. After her studies, she worked for German cross-regional weeklyder Freitag and worked as senior reporter for BuzzFeed News (later Ippen Investigativ). Since March 2022, Löffler has been an editor […]

Karin Lohr

Karin Lohr has held the position of chief executive for Munich street magazine Straßenzeitung BISS – Bürger in sozialen Schwierigkeiten e.V. (Association Street Magazine BISS—Citizens in Social Distress) for 11 years now. BISS is both a magazine project and a social enterprise that has been advocating for capacity-building measures for people in difficult social circumstances since 1993.  Before, she […]

Steen Lorenzen

For more than 25 years, Steen Lorenzen has been covering stories as a music critic, host and reporter for radioeins (rbb) in Berlin. He developed formats like Weekender (festivals, concerts, pop culture), studioeins (live music performances in front of an audience), and EleKtricity(special music format dedicated to electronic music). Most recently, he has been the editorial manager of podcasts for […]

Gundula Ludwig

Gundula Ludwig is a political scientist, professor of gender studies and director of the research platform Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck at the University of Innsbruck. Ludwig’s work focuses on theories of society, state, power and democracy from a queer-feminist perspective, body and biopolitics and violence and gender. Ludwig was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of […]

Sabine Ludwig

Sabine Ludwig is professor for Diversity in Medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. Before that, she held a professorship for Public Health, Rehabilitation and Transdisciplinary Healthcare Provision in the Health System at the Catholic University of Mainz as well as a deputy professorship at the University for Healthcare in Bochum, Germany. She used to work for […]

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 […]

Adrian Mihălțianu

Adrian Mihălțianu is a journalist with more than 19 years of experience, both in editorial and management teams for medium-sized and large media companies. As publisher of PressOne, he brought the publication from a one-donor model to a sustainable, complex mix based on subscriptions and strategic partners supporting its investigations and storytelling. PressOne is now reaching more than 1.4 million people every year on its website, and more than 6 million people every year on its social media […]

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 […]

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 […]

Zehra Ömeroğlu

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

Patricia Pantel

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

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 […]

Clemens Pig

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

Maria Piok

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

Elisabeth Pittermann

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

Arianna Poletti

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

Alicia Prager

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

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.

Helga Ramsey-Kurz

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

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 […]

Christopher Resch

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

Maria Retter

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

Olga Reznikova

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

Michael Riegner

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

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.  

Daniela Sala

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

Christian Schicklgruber

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

Sonja Katharina Schiffers

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

Heidi Schleich

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

Doris Schmidauer

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

Colette M. Schmidt

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

Julia Schnetzer

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

Till Schönwälder

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

Oliver Schopf

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

Renate Schroeder

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

Rainer Schüller

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

Eva Schwienbacher

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

Uwe Steger

In 1992, Uwe Steger graduated in political sciences from the University of Innsbruck. During his studies, he worked for different marketing agencies, and from 1994 onward, he was responsible for setting up and leading the office for public relations at the University of Innsbruck. Between 2004 and 2008, he transferred to the Medical University of […]

Holger Stark

Until 1991 Holger Stark studied journalism in Munich and Berlin before he started working as an editor for the Berliner Zeitung. From 1993 until 1998 he studied political science at the Otto-Suhr-Institute at the Free University of Berlin and besides his studies he continued working as a journalist for Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg and Radio Fritz […]

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 […]

Gemma Terés Arilla

Since January 2024, Terés Arilla (born in 1982) has been director of taz Panter Foundation in Berlin. Terés Arilla joined taz in May 2022. First as head of topics and news, later as deputy head of the department for foreign affairs. Born in Catalunya, she has been living and working in Berlin since 2004. She began her career in […]