Ed Moschitz

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Ed Moschitz (speech at the presentation of the Austrian Adult Education TV Prize 2011)

Eduard "Ed" Moschitz (born June 13, 1968 in Judenburg ) is an Austrian journalist and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Eduard Moschitz studied journalism at the University of Vienna . Before he finished his studies, he wrote for Südwind magazine, the weekly Falter and the daily Die Presse . In 1996 he became an editor at the ORF radio station FM4 , then until 1999 at Ö1 . From 1998 he was part of the editorial team of the reportage magazine Am Schauplatz of ORF television, where he was involved as a reporter, editor and designer on around 100 programs ( Restlesser 2004, Am rechts Rand 2010, Almost Definitely 2012, etc.). Since 2013 he has been working in the ORF documentary film department in the editorial department of Menschen & Mächte .

Since 2005, Moschitz has been teaching as a university lecturer in the master’s course for quality journalism at the University for Continuing Education in Krems .

Skinhead affair

For the Am-Schauplatz episode Am rechts Rand in 2010, Moschitz accompanied two unemployed young people who lived in a community building in Vienna on days of filming spread over several weeks . Because of their shaved heads and their statements, they were often in reporting to as " neo-Nazi - skinheads " section. The topic of the program was to investigate why young people turn to the ideology of neo-Nazism. Visiting and filming the protagonists repeatedly over a longer period of time, as the program manager Christian Schüller explained in the course of the press coverage of the subsequent controversy, corresponded to the concept of the series of reports, which has existed since 1995, “to get to know the everyday life of 'normal people' and to get to know it then to reconstruct with the means of the report. "

On 12 March 2010, the film crew went with the neo-Nazis in an ORF bus to km 50 in the remote Wiener Neustadt held FPÖ -Parteiveranstaltung who wanted to visit the two to be the speech of party leader Heinz-Christian Strache to hear. There Moschitz asked the skinheads to speak to Strache. When he signed autographs at the end of the event and had himself photographed with supporters, for which the camera team was invited behind the barrier, the two of them also got their signatures. There was no conversation. Shortly thereafter, Strache confronted Moschitz with the accusation that he had brought the two of them as “ Agent Provocateurs ” and asked them to shout “Heil Hitler”, later told the police that they should have said “Sieg Heil” and “unequivocally” in court "Sieg Heil" -sager, who for me is a Nazi and "Heil Hitler" -sayer, to have heard ”. He told the Austrian daily newspaper that Moschitz "shouted at least 20 times: 'Say it, finally'" and that "ten other witnesses" had also heard it. One of the skinheads had initially confessed to the teller during an interrogation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a result of Strache's complaint and charged Moschitz with it, but later revoked this statement. The original tape of the shoot, the two skins were wired with radio microphones, was seized by the police the day after the event. No such requests or calls could be heard, whereupon Strache accused ORF and Moschitz of manipulating the material.

A legal dispute with the FPÖ and its party chairman followed. Moschitz was supported by ORF by assuming the costs. In the course of the proceedings, a number of expert opinions on the tapes were obtained from all parties involved and the courts, none of which could prove tampering. At the beginning, Strache filed a complaint against Moschitz for inciting Nazi re-activism and forging evidence. On June 27, 2011, the public prosecutor's office in Wiener Neustadt closed the investigation for incitement to re-activation, but continued the manipulation of the tapes as well as the one brought against Strache by Schüller on the part of the ORF for possible false evidence and defamation. Due to the length of the proceedings, in April 2012 Moschitz filed a complaint against the Republic of Austria with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for violating the right to a fair trial and the right to an effective complaint. In May 2013, the Wiener Neustadt public prosecutor closed both proceedings. The lawsuit brought by Moschitz against the FPÖ for defamation and violation of the presumption of innocence was dismissed by the Vienna Criminal Court in May 2014. The judgment was overturned in March 2015 by the Vienna Higher Regional Court and referred back to the first court for a new hearing and decision. The new proceedings ended in April 2016 with the conviction of the FPÖ to pay Moschitz € 13,000 in compensation and the party's obligation to publish the verdict. The judgment was initially not final because the FPÖ lawyer filed a full appeal. On June 21, 2017, the Vienna Higher Regional Court dismissed the FPÖ's appeal and increased the compensation to which Moschitz was entitled to 17,000 euros.

Apart from the legal proceedings, the ORF as well as Moschitz von Strache and critics were accused of giving money to the two protagonists of the report. Each of them received a one-off 100 euros from the editorial staff; as compensation for expenses , compensation for rights (see right to one's own picture ) or for expenses of external contributors in reports not unusual, as the commercial director of ORF Richard Grasl explained. From Moschitz they also received a total of around 200 euros. On the charge that he had given the two of them money to buy in a "Nazi shop", he said that he had given one of them 50 euros because he wanted to buy in a so-called army shop that sells used military clothing . He then decided differently and introduced the film team to what is described in the report, "hidden business" for clothing with right-wing extremist labels and Nazi devotional items.

On May 23, 2011, Moschitz was awarded the TV Prize of Austrian Adult Education in the documentation category for the report .

Movie

In 2011, Moschitz's first feature film, Mama Illegal, was released . The premiere took place on November 23rd at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam . As a result, it has been shown at numerous festivals in various European countries as well as in Ethiopia, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan and Argentina and has been awarded several prizes.

The subject of the film is flight and labor migration in today's Europe, shown using the example of three women from Moldova who work as cleaning women in Western Europe without residence or work permits and send their income home to support their families, especially their children who have stayed at home . For Moschitz the film was a long-term project for which he accompanied the women over and over again for seven years. The starting point was the Am Schauplatz report “Village without a mother” from 2004.

Reports (selection)

  • 2020 State of emergency in Ischgl
  • 2019 slaves for the elderly
  • 2018 At the car wash
  • 2018 In the small Prater
  • 2017 Startups - Behind the Hype
  • 2016 land of barbecues
  • 2014 Much too loud - victims of noise
  • 2013 Drinking Festival - Living with Alcoholism
  • 2013 On the run - people facing deportation
  • 2012 Not good enough - food in the dumpster
  • 2012 Almost absolutely certain - business with financial products
  • 2010 The fear maker - citizens' movement against a mosque
  • 2010 On the Right Edge - Right-Wing Extremism in Austria

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ed Moschitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b press kit for "Mama Illegal" , 2011
  2. ↑ ORF : Short biography Ed Moschitz ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ University for Continuing Education Krems : Quality Journalism, MA: Lecturers / Trainers (accessed on May 21, 2015)
  4. ↑ a b Die Presse : According to the Supreme Court judgment: “Schauplatz”: Editor Moschitz speaks , December 17, 2010
  5. ↑ a b adult education.at: 43rd television award: Learning from the past for the present , June 3, 2011 (accessed on May 22, 2015)
  6. ↑ a b Die Presse : 'Am Schauplatz' doesn't need 'no political support' , March 29, 2010 (accessed on May 19, 2015)
  7. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : Skinhead affair: ORF reporter Moschitz acquitted , June 27, 2011
  8. ↑ a b Die Presse : FPÖ vs. ORF: "Something clearly neo-Nazi" , March 26, 2010 (accessed on May 19, 2015)
  9. ↑ Falter 14/13: The kidnapped case , April 2014
  10. ^ Austria (daily newspaper) : Justice now wants Nazi tapes from ORF , March 26, 2010
  11. ^ Die Presse : Skinhead report: ORF journalist Moschitz won against FPÖ , April 26, 2016
  12. ↑ Der Standard : "Schauplatz" judgment of the Supreme Court for "important signal" , December 17, 2010
  13. ^ Controversy over Nazi video: ORF also pays the next round of crowns. at, accessed March 24, 2015
  14. ↑ News (magazine) : ORF skinhead documentary - In the wrong film , May 23, 2012
  15. ↑ Der Standard : Ed Moschitz: "More than three years in secrecy" , July 9, 2013
  16. ↑ Die Presse : Skinhead report: Moschitz flashes with lawsuit against FPÖ , May 15, 2014
  17. ↑ Der Standard : Skinhead Report: ORF editor Moschitz loses against FPÖ , May 14, 2014
  18. ↑ Der Standard : "Skinhead" report: FPÖ loses against ORF editor , April 26, 2016
  19. ^ Skinhead report: Higher Regional Court Vienna rejected the FPÖ's appeal. vienna.at of June 21, 2017
  20. ↑ Die Presse : Grasl confirms: 200 euros for skinheads , April 11, 2010 (accessed on May 19, 2015)
  21. ↑ Am-Schauplatz does not need political support Die Presse, accessed on May 19, 2015
  22. ↑ Florian Klenk in Falter 40/2010: "Am Schauplatz" in front of the court , 2010 (accessed on May 22, 2015)
  23. ↑ Mama Illegal: Awards & Festivals (accessed on May 21, 2015)
  24. ↑ ORF / ORF III : doku.zeit on Monday: Mama Illegal , May 2014
  25. ↑ dok.at | Eduard Moschitz. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Moschitz, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moschitz, Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Judenburg