Armin Thurnher

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Armin Thurnher (2018)

Armin Thurnher (born February 21, 1949 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian journalist and publicist . He is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Viennese city newspaper Falter .

Life

After studying English and American studies (1967/68) at Wagner College in New York and from 1968 German and theater studies in Vienna - which remained without a degree - Thurnher became a member of the editorial collective of the Viennese city newspaper Falter and, founded and published by Walter Martin Kienreich has been its publisher (since June 2012) and, alongside Florian Klenk , its editor-in-chief . He is also a co-owner of the Falter publishing house. Since 1970 he has worked as a freelance author, actor and stage musician in the theater, in 1972 he wrote the play Stoned Vienna together with Heinz Rudolf Unger . In the 1980s he was a correspondent for the culture magazine Westermanns Monatshefte in Vienna. In the 1990s he worked for the weekly newspapers Die Zeit and Die Woche . Columns of him appeared and a. in the daily newspapers AZ , Die Presse and Kleine Zeitung . He also sits on the board of the open television company Okto , where he is also one of the moderators of the program "Das Medienquartett".

He is a critic of the Austrian print media landscape, which is dominated by the Kronen Zeitung and the glossy magazines of the NEWS group. He concluded his leading article in the Falter every week for twenty years, based on Cato's Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam with the sentence: “Otherwise, I am of the opinion that the Mediamil complex must be broken up”. Mediamil is a combination of words created by Thurnher from Mediaprint and the magazines Format and Profil from the NEWS group. In August 2014, Thurnher abandoned the “last sentence” habit that had been cultivated for decades and had been cherished by his readers. The word formation feschism , a trunk word from fascism and fesch, also goes back to Thurnher .

Works

  • Black dwarfs. Austria's media landscape and its residents. Special number, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85449-042-9 .
  • Franz Vranitzky in conversation with Armin Thurnher. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-8218-1161-7 .
  • Austria new. The report to the Chancellor. Twelve provocations on topics of the time. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00585-X .
  • Recorded: Leon Zelman : A Life After Survival . Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00600-7 .
  • The trauma, a life. Austrian details. Zsolnay, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-552-04926-6 .
  • Home defeat. News from the new Austria. Zsolnay, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-552-04975-4 .
  • How do I become a magazine journalist? In: Reinhard Christl, Silke Rudorfer (Ed.): How do I become a journalist? Paths to the dream job . LIT , Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7000-0687-9 , pp. 161 ff .
  • The paths are created while walking. Alfred Gusenbauer in conversation with Katharina Krawagna-Pfeifer and Armin Thurnher. Czernin, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7076-0243-2 .
  • The transitional. Roman, Zsolnay, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-552-05367-0 .
  • Thurnher on prescription. The best cooking ideas from Visa Magazine, Complete and Falter magazine. Falter, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85439-449-5 .
  • Republic without dignity. Zsolnay, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-552-05603-9 .
  • Oh, Austria! European lessons from the Alpine republic. Zsolnay, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-552-05830-9 .
  • Ferry to Manhattan: My Year in America. Zsolnay, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-552-05925-2 .

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Armin Thurnher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Klenk becomes editor-in-chief of “Falter” . In: The Standard . ( derstandard.at [accessed on January 1, 2017]).
  2. ↑ The media quartet: On quiet feet into the brain. In: okto.tv. Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Ulrich Weinzierl: When everyone is unfaithful. Going to the FPÖ is no longer chic in Austria before the election: The decline of Haider's feschism . Online on Die Welt from November 23, 2002.
  4. ↑ Austria Where it is judged In: Die Zeit. Online: “For twelve years, Charles E. Ritterband reported on Austrian politics for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Now he puts this function back. The résumé of a reporter who set out to understand an operetta state. ”By Charles E. Ritterband February 14, 2013.
  5. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book Prize winners 1993-2018 , renner-institut.at, accessed December 1, 2019
  6. ↑ orf.at - Milanovic receives Kreisky Prize for the 2016 Political Book . Article from January 3, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Thurnher, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz