Alfred Payrleitner

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Alfred Payrleitner (first from left) as moderator of the ORF election reporting on the 1970 National Council election

Alfred Payrleitner (born March 10, 1935 in Vienna ; † April 4, 2018 ) was an Austrian journalist and author .

life and work

Alfred Payrleitner attended the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna, where he graduated in 1953. He then studied at the University of World Trade . In his diploma thesis he dealt with questions of Soviet economic accounting. He began his journalistic career with the Express newspaper . He then worked as a freelance journalist until 1967.

In 1967, Alfred Payrleitner became deputy editor-in-chief of ORF as deputy to Alfons Dalma . There Payrleitner was also the main department head for politics and current affairs. As a presenter, he appeared in the live reports on the National Council elections in 1970 and 1971 and in the ORF Report program.

In 1975, Alfred Payrleitner switched to the daily newspaper Kurier as chief commentator . In 1979 he returned to ORF and took over the main departments of Documentation (until 1984) and Education and Current Affairs (1984–1997). In the course of this activity he founded u. a. the programs Auslandsreport (since 2004 Weltjournal ), the award-winning documentary series Universum and Modern Times (with Werner Mück ).

In 2007 he was appointed honorary chairman of the readers' advocacy, but described this body as "pointless" due to a lack of skills. The readers' advocacy was founded by the editors-in-chief's association as the successor to the press council , which was dissolved in 2001.

After working for ORF, Payrleitner was again a commentator for the courier until 2009.

Publications

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Robert Winter: The Academic Gymnasium in Vienna: Past and Present. Böhlau, Wien et al. 1996, ISBN 3-205-98485-4 , p. 198. (online at: books.google.at )
  2. ↑ ORF mourns Alfred Payrleitner . OTS bulletin of April 5, 2018, accessed April 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b The influence of the media on conscious collective opinion. Awareness. In: Vienna studies on the theory of science. (4), pp. 456-474, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-7091-9219-1_18
  4. ↑ a b c CV on the homepage of the European Forum Alpbach
  5. ↑ ORF TVthek: National Council Election Archive - TV broadcast from 1970 ( Memento from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ orf.at: Election 13: Review of TV election Sundays
  7. ↑ EU SCREEN: ORF report on "All about the pill" (July 28, 1971)
  8. ↑ ORF customer service: News ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ science.orf.at: "Universum" celebrates its 15th anniversary (2002)
  10. ↑ a b Television Prize for Popular Education / Adult Education: Prize winners since 1967 ( Memento from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ website of the reader advocacy
  12. ↑ a b diepresse.com: "The reader advocacy is pointless" (May 7, 2008)
  13. ↑ a b "New Press Council" - From press council to readers' advocacy. on: derstandard.at , June 22, 2007.
  14. ^ "Kurier" ends columns by Rohrer and Payrleitner. on: derstandard.at , May 11, 2009.
  15. ↑ diepresse.com
  16. ↑ derstandard.at
  17. ^ 1993 CableACE Awards at the Internet Movie Database
  18. ↑ adulteducation.at
  19. ↑ Awarding of the Felix Ermacora Human Rights Prizes 2008 ( Memento from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ BMEIA: Foreign Minister on the award of the Felix Ermacora Human Rights Prize 2008
personal data
SURNAME Payrleitner, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 4th April 2018