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 […]
Sandra Teschow
Sandra Teschow is a designer. She studied Communication Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and at the Arts Institute of Bournemouth in England. After earning her degree she has been working as a freelance designer and art director for different offices and agencies like Meta Design, Fons Hickmann m23, and Weiss–heiten. Since 2019, she has […]
Brigitte Theißl
Brigitte Theißl is a senior editor for feminist magazine an.schläge and freelance editor for the online feminist section of Austrian daily newspaper DerStandard Online-Standard/DieStandard. In addition to that she works as a speaker and independent author. In 2022, she joined the first feminist online health magazine Ourbodies.at. She covers the topics feminism, gender equity, class discrimination and social injustice, health, […]
Barbara Tóth
Barbara Tóth born in 1974 is a historian, book author and journalist. Born to a Czech mother and a Hungarian father, she started her journalism career as a freelance author for the news magazine Profil after studying history at the University of Vienna, where she earned her PhD with a dissertation on the Reder-Frischenschlager Affair. […]
Marcela Turati
Marcela Turati (born in 1974) is a Mexican journalist who covers topics from a social and human-rights perspective. She works as reporter for the magazine Proceso and co-founded the network “Periodistas de a Pie“. With her series on the death of 14 migrants in the desert of Arizona, she became one of the finalists for the FNPI and […]
Marietta van der Tol
Marietta van der Tol is Landecker Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Trinity College, Cambridge. Her key-publications include the book Constitutional Intolerance (CUP 2025), the special issue ‘What’s ethnicity got to do with it?’ with Dr Elisabeth Becker in Ethnic and Racial Studies, and ‘Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space’ with Prof Phil […]
Roger Vontobel
Roger Vontobel was born in 1977 in Zurich and studied directing at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg. He has directed productions at various prestigious theaters including the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Schauspiel Bochum, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater, Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris, Royal Danish Theatre in […]
Klaus Walter
Klaus Walter, was born in 1955, is based in Frankfurt am Main and has been covering the topics pop culture, soccer and politics since the mid-70s. In the 80s, he was editor for the magazine Pflasterstrand, since 1984, he has been radio DJ for the German regional radio station Hessischer Rundfunk. Readers of the technical magazines […]
Ruth Weismann
Ruth Weismann is a journalist and has been working as editor for the Viennese street magazine Augustin since 2017. In her work, she has a strong focus on social and societal developments, city gems, as well as art and culture. She has written for various media, studied Sociology and Visual Arts; and in 2025, she is member […]
Simon Welebil
Simon Welebil, born in 1983 and raised in Tyrol, currently residing in Vienna, is a trained historian and comparatist. Since 2010, he has been an editor at Radio FM4, focusing on politics, climate, and sports. He is passionate about fast-paced sports that often go unnoticed in mainstream media, mountains, and sustainable mobility.
Marian Wilhelm
Marian Wilhelm (*1987) is a film critic based in Vienna and Innsbruck. Since 2013, he has been working for several daily newspapers in Austria with coverage of international film festivals from Berlin and Locarno to Venice. He is part of the curation team at the Diametrale Film Festival and hosts film talks at other Austrian festivals. With a background in […]
Marco Witting
Marco Witting (born in 1977) was a newcomer in the world of journalism when he joined Moser Holding in 2006 to work for different Departments, including Current Affairs, Tyrolean and Local Affairs. From 2018 onward, the graduate of the body for journalist training in Austria “Kuratorium für Journalistenausbildung” held the position of Head of Local Affairs. Since April 2023, […]
Yinmi Yao
Yinmi Yao is a Beijing-based freelance writer specializing in narrative non-fiction that explores human experiences shaped by government policies, social structures, and corporate pressures. Her work delves into the struggles people face, how they navigate life under specific circumstances, and the shifting emotional landscapes of society. Her pieces have appeared in leading Chinese media outlets, including […]
Natascha Zeitel-Bank
Natascha Zeitel-Bank studied sociology at the University of Mannheim in the field of European comparative social research and completed a doctoral program in political science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a focus on European integration. She is “Senior Lecturer” at the Institute for Media, Society and Communication (Faculty of Social and Political Communication) and teaches in the […]