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 studied German Studies and the Subject Combination Stage, Film and other Media. In 1994, she began to work at Standard’s Styria Office in Graz. In addition to political topics, she sometimes also writes about art and theatre; and during the 2021 parliamentary elections, she spent several months at Standard’s Department of Foreign Policy in Berlin.