Andreas Unterberger

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Andreas Unterberger (2013)

Andreas Unterberger (born January 2, 1949 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist . He was editor-in-chief of the press and the Wiener Zeitung and today writes a right-wing populist political blog . Unterberger is a board member of the Hayek Institute and the Club of Independent Liberals.

biography

education

In 1967 Unterberger passed the Matura at the Bundesgymnasium Wien VIII (Piarist) with distinction and then did his military service until 1968. He is ROA sergeant in the reserve a. D. From 1968 to 1973 he studied law and economics at the University of Vienna , from 1972 at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Political Science and graduated as Dr. iur. from.

journalist

From 1973 to 2004 member of the editorial board of the newspaper Die Presse , one year of which was local department, from 1974 foreign policy editor. Next four years in charge of "Page 3", and five years managing editor . 1984 to 1995 head of foreign affairs department and chief editor, from 1995 to 2004 chief editor . From 2005 to 2009 editor-in-chief of the Wiener Zeitung . There he wrote the column of Andreas Unterberger's (not entirely apolitical) diary . His work as editor-in-chief was accompanied by criticism, for example from the memorial service association and the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance to offer right-wing authors such as the Holocaust denier and lawyer Herbert Schaller a stage.

Unterberger has been a freelance journalist since 2009 and continues his not entirely apolitical diary as an internet blog. In addition, he writes the weekly Unterberger Wochenschau column in the financial and economic weekly newspaper “Börsen-Kurier” and, with interruptions, from July 2011 to May 2013 wrote a double column with or under the title Controversy in the Friday edition of the Salzburger Nachrichten. against Katharina Krawagna-Pfeifer .

Scientific and journalistic activity

From 1989 to 1998 Unterberger was a lecturer at the University of Vienna in the field of political science and international relations. He held seminars and lectures on Austrian foreign policy, European integration, international security policy and the protection of minorities. The journalistic and academic work focuses on Austrian foreign and neutrality policy, European integration, security policy, minority and self-determination issues, East-West relations, Austrian contemporary history, development policy, political structures in the United States, the sanction crisis and liberal reform policy.

In his columns and at panel discussions on Austrian television, Unterberger represents politically right-wing and economically liberal positions. Unterberger's points of view and quotes are published and documented in the “Controversy” column in the Salzburger Nachrichten . In addition, von Unterberger and Georg Hoffmann-Ostenhof discussed a current topic on a weekly radio podcast on the EU-Infothek platform under the title “Audio-Europe Controversy”. These contributions were broadcast on two small radio stations in Vienna and St. Pölten . Irregular also appear his articles in Academia , Conturen , the European Rundschau , the Yearbook of Politics and the Raiffeisen newspaper and in the New Right counted free world and Junge Freiheit . In his blog (subtitle "[...] and the many not entirely boring partner sites") he occasionally links to articles by leading identities like Martin Sellner .

Andreas Unterberger is co-founder of the media watch blog ORF-Watch.at , which, according to his own statements, is supposed to enable a free and public debate about the privileges of the state and politics-dependent fee-based radio and television as well as various aspects of the abuse of power.

Rainer Nowak describes Unterberger in an eulogy on his 70th birthday as the "journalistic standard bearer of the right-wing conservatives in Austria", for whom politically "the Austrian journalists were and are far too left", "to a certain extent even parts of the ' press ' editorial team" , who is digitally successful, speaks plain language, understands the world geostrategically like hardly anyone and reaches with his blog more than any other political publicist in Austria. Jonas Vogt writes in Datum that Unterberger "represents right-wing conservative positions in his blog and has already stated that the role models could now only be called Salvini and Orbán ".

Awards

Private

Unterberger is the father of three adult sons and a grandfather of six.

Books and publications

  • A for alternative. Herold, Vienna / Munich 1981. ISBN 3-7008-0210-2 .
  • with Julius Kainz (Ed.): A piece of Austria. 150 years "Die Presse" Holzhausen, Vienna 1998. ISBN 3-900518-83-1 .
  • Austria - and now? Conversations for thought. Molden, Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-85485-129-4 .
  • Martin Bartenstein: Crossing Two Worlds , Edition Steinbauer, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902494-47-4 .
  • A Ministry of Men, please! In: Journal. Edition Lower Austria. St. Pölten 114.1992, pp. 16-17.
  • Over 50 other political contributions in scientific journals and edited volumes
  • "Abolish politics!" Leykam Streitschriften, Graz 2014. ISBN 978-3-7011-7918-3

Web links

Commons : Andreas Unterberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jonas Vogt: Grandpa against links. In: date . September 2019, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b andreas-unterberger.at blog: "The not entirely apolitical diary and the many not entirely boring partner pages"
  3. ↑ Herbert Schaller, lawyer for many Holocaust deniers, has died. In: Der Standard (online) . January 29, 2018, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  4. ^ Association Memorial Service: The Crude World of Dr. Unterberger. In: gedenkdienst.at. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  5. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance: Schaller in "Wiener Zeitung": News from far right. In: doew.at. January 2007, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  6. ^ "WZ" editor-in-chief Unterberger as a political issue. In: Die Presse (online) . June 14, 2007, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  7. ^ Website of the Börsenkurier
  8. ^ Column controversy in the Salzburger Nachrichten
  9. ↑ EU-Infothek.com ( Memento from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Frequencies on andreas-unterberger.at
  11. ↑ Portrait: Andreas Unterberger ( memento of March 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Die Freie Welt , accessed on March 28, 2013
  12. ^ Andreas Unterberger: Breath of plague over identities. In: Young Freedom . April 6, 2019, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Andreas Unterberger: Gefemt and outlawed: witch hunt against Martin Sellner. In: andreas.unterberger.at. January 21, 2020, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ ORF-Watch.at
  15. ↑ Unterberger turns 70 - old age is alien to him diepresse.com, accessed on January 6, 2019
  16. ↑ Source: Andreas Unterberger, 12/2009
personal data
SURNAME Unterberger, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna