Conny Bischofberger

Conny Bischofberger (2017)

Conny Bischofberger (born May 21, 1960 in Mellau , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian journalist and book author. Since 1991, with a few interruptions, she has been an interviewer for the Kronen Zeitung .

Career

Conny Bischofberger graduated from Innsbruck in 1978, but broke off her law studies after a year. As early as 1977 she began to work as an intern at the Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung in Bregenz , in 1978 she became an editorial candidate and completed her three-year training.
In 1983 she switched to the St. Galler Tagblatt . In 1985 she moved to Vienna and worked as an editor at the Kurier , where she started her first interview format “To the point” in 1988. During this time she was also a freelancer for Weltwoche Zurich (1985 to 1987) and the monthly magazine Basta (1988), as well as a social columnist for the Wienerin magazine .

In 1991 she started working as a star interviewer at the Kronen Zeitung, where she designed the Sunday column “Personal” until March 2006. During this time she also wrote double interview series for Bild am Sonntag (1994 to 1999), was a member of the editor-in-chief for the development of the women's magazine Woman (2001 to 2002), and editor-in-chief of the daily radio talk show Resetarits live (2003 to 2004).

In the spring of 2006 the change to the newly started daily newspaper project Austria should take place, where Bischofberger should be responsible for the “interview of the day” and as a lecturer at the in-house journalists' academy. But even before the start of the project, she accepted the offer to manage the Sunday edition of the Kurier (until September 2009).

In October 2011, Bischofberger returned to Kronen Zeitung as an interviewer. She is also the journalistic advisor to the publisher and editor-in-chief Christoph Dichand .

In almost three decades as an interviewer, she published well over 1000 interviews in Austrian, German and Swiss media, including with the Dalai Lama .

Private

Conny Bischofberger has two sons from a relationship with Hans Mahr . Her older brother Norbert (* 1956) is a biochemist .

Awards

• Third place in the “ Election for Journalist of the Year 2006” in the “Editor-in-Chief” category.

Books

• Niki Lauda, ​​Conny Bischofberger: Let's talk about money . Verlag edition a, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-99001-143-0 .
• Marga Swoboda, Conny Bischofberger: Right in the heart - the "day by day" columns . Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85002-894-3 .
• Helmut Zilk, Conny Bischofberger: My three lives . The memories. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-85002-615-9 .
• Martina Leibovici-Mühlberger, Conny Bischofberger: Great fathers . Holzhausen Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85493-120-4 .
• Reinhard Gerer , Conny Bischofberger: The little tricks of the great cooks . Recorded by Conny Bischofberger. Orac Verlag, Vienna , Munich , Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-7015-0482-2 .

Web links

Commons : Conny Bischofberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Conny Bischofberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Conny Bischofberger's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Conny Bischofberger goes back to the "Kronen Zeitung". DiePresse.com , September 1, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} curriculum vitae. connybischofberger.com, accessed on January 11, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Conny Bischofberger changes to the new Fellner daily newspaper. APA-OTS , March 8, 2006, accessed January 11, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Conny Bischofberger leaves "Krone". derstandard.at , March 28, 2006, accessed on January 11, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Conny Bischofberger returns to the Kronen Zeitung. Austrian media observer Observer, September 2, 2011, accessed on January 11, 2014 . 
6. ^ Conny Bischofberger. APA , accessed January 11, 2014 . 
7. ↑ The power of thoughts is enormous. In: Courier . September 23, 2007, accessed November 18, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Bernhard Baumgartner: Number two. (No longer available online.) In: Datum . September 1, 2005, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on January 11, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Conny Bischofberger: Dare! Follow your dreams! connybischofberger.com, accessed on January 11, 2014 .