Wolfgang Mayr was born in Bolzano and is a journalist from South Tyrol. He used to be editor in chief of the regional service of the Italian public-service broadcaster Rai Südtirol. From 1982 until 1984, Mayr attended the German training institution for journalists Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich. For four years, he worked as an editor for South Tyrolean news magazine ff . He then joined Rai Südtirol (formerly Rai Sender Bozen) where he stayed for three decades. As a pensioneer, he used to work for Ethical Banking of Raiffeisenkasse Bozen, pro bono for the online magazine barfuss, for the political blog “brennerbasisdemokratie” and the human-rights blog GfbV-Voices. Since 1982, Wolfgang Mayr has been working for the Society for Threatened Peoples, GfbV.