Christian Rathner

Book presentation "Nobody gets through the crisis alone. What Greece teaches Europe". Christian Rathner, Matthias Laurenz Gräff, Metropolitan Arsenios von Austria , Charilaos Zikos, Georgia Kazantzidu (2014)

Christian Rathner (* 1961 in Grieskirchen in Upper Austria ) is an Austrian television journalist and author .

Life

After graduating from high school in Wels and studying in Vienna and Leningrad ( Catholic theology and Slavic studies ), Rathner worked as an educational advisor in the Jesuit education center in Vienna-Lainz, today's Cardinal-König-Haus. Since 1992 he has been a religious journalist at the main religion department at ORF television. He designs magazine articles for the religion magazine Orientation and television documentaries for the show on Tuesday evening criss- cross .

Awards

2013: Austrian Adult Education TV Award in the Documentation category for Tell me where the girls are

TV documentaries (excerpt)

If I should become Pope with Adolf Holl (1999)
Kill for Allah. Religious Reasons for Terrorism (2005)
Strong daughters of God. The Sisters of Mercy from Vienna (2007) - awarded a Prelate Leopold Hungarian Award 2007
"The Charm of Allah". Why People Switch to Islam (2008)
Moscow powers. Russian Orthodox Christians between Throne and Altar (2008)
Why does God make us suffer? (2008)
The dream of the Christian state. Catholic Church between Republic and Union (2009)
Helping hands in Athens (2012) - awarded with a Prelate Lepold Ungar Award 2013
Tell me where the girls are about the killing of female fetuses and children in India (2013) - awarded the Austrian Adult Education TV Prize
Israel: Concern for the Future 2014
Adventure mission through Catholic missionaries from Austria in Cameroon, Peru and Brazil (2015)

Books

In autumn 2013 the publishing house Styria premium published Rathner's first book, Nobody gets through the crisis alone. What Greece teaches Europe to grapple with the consequences of the Greek sovereign debt crisis . In the spring of 2015, the same publisher, Der Brunnen von Epanosifi, published a book about the island of Crete. The focus is on three Cretans born in the capital Heraklion : the painter Domínikos Theotokópoulos ( El Greco ), the writer Nikos Kazantzakis and the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Austria, Arsenios Kardamakis , monk of the Epanosifi monastery.