Betina Aumair
Betina Aumair works as a gender and diversity officer in adult education, as a certified supervisor, and as a writing pedagogue. Her main areas of focus are examining class and gender relations with regard to sociopolitical developments.
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, […]
Beata Balogová
Beata Balogová is an award-winning journalist, From 2014 to 2025, she served as editor-in-chief of SME, one of Slovakia’s leading daily newspapers, and currently holds the position of chief commentator. Before joining SME, she was editor-in-chief of Slovakia’s English-language weekly The Slovak Spectator from 2003 to 2014. She earned her master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and […]
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 […]
Markus Breitenecker
Markus Breitenecker has been a member of the Executive Board of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE since April 1, 2024, and as COO was responsible for sales, marketing, IT/AI, regulatory affairs, and sustainability until October 2025. He also heads the Seven.One Entertainment Group and Joyn’s streaming and platform strategy. The lawyer began his media career in 1996 as CEO […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Leonhard Dobusch
Leonhard Dobusch is s a Professor of Business Administration at the Department of Organization and Learning at the University of Innsbruck, focusing on topics such as organizational openness and the management of digital communities. Dobusch is also co-founder and academic director of the Vienna-based Momentum Institute, a member of the General Council of the Austrian National Bank, and a member […]
Can Dündar
Can Dündar has been working as a journalist for the last 44 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, […]
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid ist the business correspondent for France at the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) since 2026. Before that Föderl-Schmid was a member of the editorial board (2020 to 2024) and then news editor at the SZ. Since 2017, she has been SZ correspondent for Israel and the Palestinian territories, then a member of the editorial board. Previously, Föderl-Schmid […]
Ruth Eisenreich
Ruth Eisenreich has almost seven years of experience as a freelance journalist, but she also understands the perspective of editors who hire freelancers. After working for Falter, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Die Zeit, she worked freelance from the end of 2018 to mid-2025 – primarily for print and online media, and occasionally for radio. After returning to Vienna in 2020, […]
Francesca Ferlaino
Francesca Ferlaino studied physics in Naples, Trieste, and Florence, specializing in ultracold quantum gases. Since 2006 she has been at the University of Innsbruck; since 2014 she has been a professor of experimental physics and director of IQOQI at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. A recipient of three ERC grants and numerous other awards, she founded […]
Holger Gassler
Holger Gassler is Head of Brand & Communications at Innsbruck Tourism, where he is responsible for the strategic positioning of the destination in an international context. He oversees brand development, communication strategy, and the integration of traditional PR, content marketing, and digital channels. His professional background is shaped by many years of experience in destination marketing […]
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 […]
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.
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, and host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, which airs on more than 1,500 public television and radio stations worldwide. Goodman is a recipient of the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi […]
Gustav Gressel
Dr. Gustav Gressel is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the National Defence Academy of the Austrian Armed Forces. From 2014 to 2024, he served as a Senior Policy Fellow in the Wider Europe Programme at the ECFR Berlin Office, focusing primarily on the Russian-Ukrainian war. In 2024, he was a visiting fellow at the […]
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, […]
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 […]
Robert Hofmann
Robert Hofmann is a freelance journalist in Berlin. He writes for publications including Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, SZ-Magazin, and Stern. Previously, he was an editor at VICE and editor-in-chief of a homeless magazine. He offers courses and coaching on humorous writing, columns, and magazine production.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Claus Kleber
Claus Kleber, born in 1955 in Reutlingen, is a German journalist, lawyer, and longtime television presenter. After studying law at the University of Tübingen, he began his career in radio with SWF and later served as ARD correspondent in Washington, D.C., and London. He gained international recognition for his in-depth reporting and interviews with leading […]
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 […]
Stefan Kollinger
Stefan Kollinger is an experienced professional in the field of media technology and digitalization, currently serving as the Chief Innovation Officer at ORF. In this role Stefan focuses on leading strategic initiatives from AI to Smart Producing to promote technological innovations and integrate digital solutions into the company’s existing operational processes. His work involves close collaboration with various departments to ensure that ORF remains at the forefront of digital […]
Martin Kotynek
Martin Kotynek is a journalist and Founding Director of the Media Forward Fund. Previously, Martin was editor-in-chief of the news organization “Der Standard” in Vienna, deputy editor-in-chief of “Zeit Online” in Berlin, investigative editor at “Die Zeit” and political editor at “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in Munich. As a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, Martin has worked […]
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.
Michaela Lackner
Professor Michaela Lackner is a mycologist at the Medical University of Innsbruck. Her research encompasses the study of invasive fungal infections, resistance mechanisms and the development of new active substances. She is the head of the inter-university doctoral programme MYCOS, the aim of which is to understand and combat antifungal resistance using the One Health approach.
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 […]
Volker Lilienthal
Prof. Dr. Volker Lilienthal (retired) held the Rudolf Augstein Endowed Chair for Quality Journalism at the University of Hamburg, Department of Journalism and Communication Studies, until 2025. Prior to that, he worked for 20 years as a media journalist for the specialist service ‘epd medien’ in Frankfurt am Main and made a name for himself as a media […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Iain Munro
Iain Munro is Professor of Leadership and Organization at Newcastle Business School. He is engaged in diverse areas of research including whistleblowing, ethics, power, and information warfare. He has co edited a book “Perspectives in Whistleblowing” (Bristol University Press). He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Organization, Organization Studies and Human Relations. He has written a […]
Péter Nádori
Péter Nádori is COO at Direkt36, the leading Hungarian investigative journalism center. Formerly deputy CEO at media conglomerate Lapcom, Péter earlier had been the managing editor of alternative weekly Magyar Narancs, and editor-in-chief of pioneering internet news portal Origo (in the period before its current incarnation as a propaganda outlet). He also helped the launch of independent news […]
Sigrid Neuhauser
Professor Sigrid Neuhauser is a mycologist at the Institute of Microbiology at the University of Innsbruck. Her research is centred on the study of interactions between microorganisms and hosts, plant pathology, and parasitic protists that infect crops and algae. In the context of One Health, she examines microbial interactions with the aim of understanding and combatting […]
Bastian Obermayer
Bastian Obermayer, born in 1977, is a reporter and co-director of the German investigative journalism bureau paper trail media, founded in 2022, which works for Der Standard in Austria, ZDF and Der Spiegel in Germany, and the Swiss publisher Tamedia. Prior to this, Obermayer spent almost two decades as a researcher for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, where he most recently headed the […]
András Pethő
András Pethő is co-founder and executive director of Direkt36, an investigative journalism center in Hungary. Direkt36, launched in 2015, is one of the few Hungarian journalism organizations that are not controlled by pro-government forces and other political interest groups. During his 20-year-long career, András was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo, worked for […]
Robert Prosser
Robert Prosser, born in 1983 in Alpbach/Tyrol. During and after his studies in Comparative Literature and Anthropology he spent some time in England, the Arabic Word and in Asia. Prosser writes Prose. Plus Performance, Recitation and Reportage. His work includes the novels THE LOOTED NEST (Jung und Jung, 2025) and LOST IN AVALANCHES (Jung und Jung, 2023). Recipient of […]
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. […]
Clara Rauchegger
Clara Rauchegger is Senior Assistant Professor of EU Law and Digital Technology Law at the University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on the regulation of digital platforms and artificial intelligence by the EU. As a member of the Digital Science Center at the University of Innsbruck, she investigates the achievements and risks of digitalisation from an […]
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.
Rebecca Sandbichler
Rebecca Sandbichler, born in Innsbruck in 1988, is a freelance journalist and event presenter. Her career began in the German state of Hesse, where she studied online journalism, founded her own magazines and was head of special publications at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. After the birth of her third child, she finally returned home to […]
Ulrich Schaible
Professor Ulrich Schaible is an expert in the field of infectious disease biology at the Borstel Research Centre, Leibniz Lung Centre, and serves as the spokesperson for the interdisciplinary Leibniz Research Network INFECTION. His research is centred on lung infections such as tuberculosis, with particular emphasis on the interactions between pathogens and the host’s immune system, […]
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 […]
Nana Siebert
Nana Siebert started her journalistic career when she was 17 years old, working for the training editorial department of NEWS led by legendary disclosing journalist Alfred Worm. She was involved in the dummy magazine period of tv-media, went on to lead the net department of e-media, and later led the special themes at NEWS. After designing […]
Florian Skrabal
Florian Skrabal is an investigative journalist, managing director and publisher of the award-winning investigative newsroom DOSSIER. He teaches research and fact-checking at the University of Applied Sciences Vienna and at various journalism training institutions.
Iftach Starik
Iftach Starik is a cultural journalist and music professional active in Austria, Israel, and Palestine. His work links artistic practice with civic engagement, viewing cultural institutions as arenas for critical public reflection. Beyond journalism, I contribute to Israeli-Palestinian political discourse and activism focused on dialogue, human rights, and equal legal protections. Some few months ago. I […]
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 […]
Brigitte Theißl
Brigitte Theißl works as a journalist, author, and adult education trainer. She is currently the managing editor at the feminist magazine an.schläge in Vienna and also works as a freelance journalist for DER STANDARD and other German-language media outlets.
Tanja Traxler
Tanja Traxler is head of the science department at the daily newspaper Der Standard. After studying quantum physics at the University of Vienna, research stays took her to the University of California/Santa Cruz (US), Twente University in Enschede (NL) and Churchill College Cambridge (UK), among others. Traxler has been science editor at the Standard since […]
Nicola von Leffern
Nicola von Leffern is a German-Austrian director, born in Hamburg in 1986. She studied at the Vienna Film Academy and works internationally across documentary film, commercials, and music videos. Her feature-length debut To Close Your Eyes And See Fire, which she developed over the course of three years in Lebanon, received the Film Critics Award for […]
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 […]
Zsolt Wilhelm
Zsolt Wilhelm, born in 1983, is head of Dienst Audio at STANDARD and heads the podcast department. In this function he is responsible for format development and all editorial contributions. This includes the research podcast “Inside Austria” in cooperation with SPIEGEL, the news podcast “Thema des Tages” (Topic of the Day) as well as thematic […]
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, […]
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 […]