Monika Lindner

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ORF General Director a. D. Monika Lindner

Monika Lindner , actually Astrid Monika Eder-Lindner (born Heiss , born September 25, 1944 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia ), is a former Austrian journalist. From 2002 to 2006 she was Director General of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) .

Life

Lindner grew up in Innsbruck . After graduating from high school, she studied theater studies, art history and philosophy at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1969 as Dr. phil. with a dissertation on "The pantomime in the old Viennese Volkstheater" . Until his death in 2004 she was married to Otto Anton Eder , who worked as a director for ORF for a long time. Lindner's step-sons Jakob, Fabian Eder and the youngest Sebastian Benjamin Eder come from his two marriages with Bibiana Zeller and Verena-Maria Leitner .

Activities in Austrian broadcasting

From 1974 Lindner worked as a freelancer for ORF in Vienna in the politics and current affairs department . In 1979 she was appointed head of the ORF press office.

In 1991 she took over the management of the early evening magazine WIR . In 1995 she drafted the concept for Willkommen Österreich and was entrusted with the management of the show. In the same year she was awarded the Romy TV Prize for “Best Program Idea”.

In October 1998 Lindner became director of the ORF regional studio in Lower Austria. In the course of the reorganization of the governing bodies of the ORF by the ORF law of July 5, 2001, passed under the Federal Government Schüssel I ( ÖVP - FPÖ coalition), she was elected General Director of the ORF by the newly established ORF Foundation Council; she took up this position on January 1, 2002. In the run-up to the National Council election in Austria in 2006 and after months of public discussions about the future of the ORF and its leadership, she lost the election for a second term as General Director on August 17, 2006 against the previous commercial director of the ORF, Alexander Wrabetz . Until shortly before the election, she was considered the favorite due to the majority of ÖVP and BZÖ- related members on the Board of Trustees. Because of his earlier commitment to social democracy, Wrabetz was considered a "red" candidate.

Further professional career

From January 1, 2007, Lindner worked as an advisor to the management of the media subsidiary Medicur-Holding of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Austria “in connection with developments in the media sector, especially in the field of electronic media”. From May 2009 to the end of 2012 she was managing director of the outdoor advertising company Epamedia , which was owned by Raiffeisen from the beginning of 2009 to November 2012 as a 100% subsidiary of the Medicur Holding. With the sale of Epamedia to the Slovak media holding JOJ Media House, Lindner left the company.

Since 2009 she has been Vice President of the Austrian Red Cross and thus Deputy to Gerald Schöpfer . In spring 2012 she was elected as the successor to Franz Ceska as President of the Aid Organization Austria International . On October 15, 2013 she resigned from this office in order to devote herself to her future work as a member of the National Council. On October 30, 2013, it was announced that Lindner would expire her mandate as Vice President of the Red Cross, which ended in May 2014, and would no longer be available for re-election in 2014.

Candidate for the National Council 2013

On August 12, 2013, Lindner's candidacy for the Stronach team was officially announced in the 2013 National Council election . After statements by the club chairman of Team Stronach, Robert Lugar , according to which Lindner should be used as the “spearhead” of the party against “the ORF, Raiffeisen and Pröll system ”, she withdrew her candidacy on August 15. However, it could no longer be deleted from the federal list of the Stronach team's candidates for the National Council election, on which it was entered in third place. This list had been submitted to the electoral authority on August 14th, the last possible date in accordance with the electoral regulations; subsequent changes are not possible. Lindner then announced that it would not accept the mandate after the election; she also did not take part in the election campaign. After the National Council election on September 29, 2013, in which the Stronach team won 11 seats, she declared on October 14 that she wanted to exercise her mandate as a “free” member of parliament, which she had gained through her formal candidacy on the party's list.

On November 27, 2013, Lindner announced that she was resigning from her national council mandate with immediate effect. Lindner justified the statement on the withdrawal from the position in parliament, which was sharply criticized by the general public, as follows: "Humanitarian and social concerns have been the focus of my professional and private commitment for many years "The campaign against me is no longer possible".

Criticism and allegations of corruption

Monika Lindner is considered to be close to the ÖVP; She was therefore partially criticized by ORF journalists for being absent when the critical ORF journalist Armin Wolf was awarded the Robert Hochner Prize on May 17, 2006, but only three days earlier at an ÖVP party event in in the second row. Wolf's criticism of the political influence exerted on ORF at the award ceremony and that there was a lack of editorial diversity of opinion was firmly rejected by Lindner. She regrets that Armin Wolf preferred the way of "public self-presentation" to internal discussion. Wolf's reaction to this: “I - and many other colleagues - have formulated everything I said yesterday in innumerable internal meetings, assemblies and discussions with superiors over the past few years. It can't have surprised anyone in the house. "

The fact that Lindner initially accepted the mandate she had acquired on the Team Stronach list in the 2013 National Council election despite leaving the party and without being involved in the election campaign as a “free” MP, led to loud public criticism from numerous politicians and journalists. Among other things, it was criticized that Lindner received the salary as a member of parliament in addition to the high income from her ORF pension. Lindner said that, although she could in principle imagine a wage waiver as a member of parliament, voluntary, unpaid activities were not taken seriously. At that time she was still Vice President of the Austrian Red Cross and President of the Aid Organization.

On October 29, 2013 it became known that Lindner had suspended her function as board member of St. Anna Children's Cancer Research until the end of her term of office at the end of November 2013, following allegations of intervention. She is said to have intervened in favor of her partner Günther Lebisch and provided him with lucrative PR jobs and approved print jobs that are said to have been twice as expensive as necessary. After interventions, her stepson, a cameraman, is said to have been commissioned to film children with cancer at the bedside for a TV commercial - for EUR 3,200.00 for half a day of filming (that's about six times the market price). On October 30, 2013, the ORF auditor was commissioned to review the orders placed with creative service providers during Lindner's term of office as ORF general director. The background is ORF orders to the partner Günther Lebisch with a volume of two million euros, which were awarded without an invitation to tender. On the other hand, the sale of 40 percent of the ORF subsidiary ORS under Lindner to Raiffeisen, where she moved after her time at ORF as ORS supervisory board member and board member of Epamedia, which was then owned by Raiffeisen, is not being examined . In addition to St. Anna children's cancer research, Lebisch is also said to have carried out orders for the Red Cross, the relief organization Austria International and Epamedia, where Lindner was represented on the board. Lindner also tried to use her seat on the board of directors of the Rudolfinerhaus for her partner, but without success.

On December 11, 2013 it became known that the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office had initiated an investigation against Lindner on suspicion of breach of trust and the acceptance of benefits.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AC04571545
  2. ↑ Lindner is leaving EPAMEDIA ( memento from March 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Press release of December 12, 2012, accessed on August 12, 2013
  3. ↑ derStandard.at - Confirmed - Monika Lindner is a candidate for Team Stronach . Article dated August 12, retrieved August 12, 2013
  4. ^ Red Cross President Fredy Mayer reelected WCC September 28, 2009, accessed March 4, 2010.
  5. ↑ Hilfswerk Austria International under new management ( memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on Hilfswerk Austria accessed on June 27, 2012
  6. ↑ Monika Lindner resigned as President of Hilfswerk Austria International . APA notification dated October 16, 2013, accessed October 16, 2013
  7. ↑ derStandard.at - Lindner lets vice-board mandate at the Red Cross expire . APA notification dated October 30, 2013, accessed October 30, 2013
  8. ↑ Der Standard : Confirmed - Monika Lindner is a candidate for Team Stronach , August 12, 2013
  9. ↑ Der Standard / APA : Monika Lindner withdraws candidacy for Team Stronach , August 15, 2013
  10. ^ ORF : Despite withdrawal: Lindner remains on the TS list , August 16, 2013
  11. ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung : Monika Lindner joins the National Council as a "free" member of the National Council , October 14, 2013
  12. ↑ Der Standard : Monika Lindner becomes “free MP” , October 14, 2013
  13. ↑ Dr. Monika Lindner resigns from the National Council . On: ots.at, accessed on November 27, 2013
  14. ↑ Article on derstandard.at from May 18, 2006 (private archive)
  15. ^ "Voter deception": Broad criticism of Lindner mandate. derstandard.at, October 15, 2013, accessed on October 16, 2013 .
  16. ^ Opinion by St. Anna Children's Cancer Research on current research / report by the Falter newspaper ( memento of October 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Article dated October 29, 2013, accessed October 29, 2013
  17. ^ Kurier - Serious allegations against Monika Lindner . Article dated October 29, 2013, accessed October 29, 2013
  18. ^ Falter - Serious allegations against Monika Lindner . Article dated October 29, 2013, accessed October 29, 2013
  19. ↑ derStandard.at - "Freunderlwirtschaft": Child cancer research separates from Lindner . APA notification dated October 29, 2013, accessed October 29, 2013
  20. ↑ derStandard.at - ORF-Revision checks all contract awards under Monika Lindner . APA notification dated October 30, 2013, accessed October 30, 2013
  21. ↑ derStandard.at - ORF boss reports on orders from Lindner's article from November 8, 2013, accessed on November 9, 2013
  22. ↑ profil.at - How the celebrity couple Monika Lindner & Günter Lebisch did business . Article dated November 5, 2013, accessed November 6, 2013
  23. ↑ derStandard.at - Lindner lets vice-board mandate at the Red Cross expire . APA notification dated October 30, 2013, accessed October 30, 2013
  24. ↑ derStandard.at - Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation against Monika Lindner . APA report on derStandard.at dated December 11, 2013, accessed on December 11, 2013
  25. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Lindner, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, director general of ORF (2002–2006), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice , Silesia