Erhard Stackl

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Erhard Stackl on the way to Tierra del Fuego, 2013

Erhard Stackl (born November 18, 1948 in Mödling near Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist and author.

Life

Erhard Stackl studied from 1968 at the University of World Trade (now Business University) in Vienna and later at the University of Vienna . He dealt with economic and social history, especially that of Latin America , and earned a master's degree in Latin American Studies at the Austrian Latin American Institute and the University of Vienna.

As a journalist, he initially worked as a freelance, including for the Ö3 radio show Die Musicbox . From 1970 he wrote for the business magazine Trend and was on the founding team of the news magazine Profil, published by Oscar Bronner . In profile he worked in the field of culture and economy, from 1979 in the international department, of which he became head. He stayed with Profil until 1991 , most recently as deputy editor-in-chief, and then switched to the daily newspaper Der Standard , where he was first head of the international department and then head of duty. In four decades, Stackl traveled to more than 60 countries, undertook numerous research trips to Latin America, the Eastern Bloc at the time, and the Near and Far East. He reported on crises and wars in Central America as well as in Iraq , Iran and Afghanistan . Stackl never saw himself as a “war correspondent” but as a “peace journalist” in the sense of Johan Galtung . His interview partners included six Nobel Peace Prize winners ( Adolfo Perez Esquivel , Lech Walesa , Rigoberta Menchú , Óscar Arias Sánchez , Yitzhak Rabin and Yassir Arafat ).

Stackl has been a freelance journalist and book author since 2010. His contributions included The New York Times (International Weekly), El País , Die Zeit , Radio Ö1 , Südwind-Magazin and Das Jüdischer Echo (which he has been editor-in-chief since the end of 2013).

One of Stackl's preferences is to invent new abbreviations and words. In 1988 he used the abbreviation UHBP (mildly ironic for "Our Mr. Federal President"), which has been popular since then, for the first time in a profile report . In 2016, the term he invented around a complex electoral process, "Federal President's election re-election postponement", was voted word of the year in Austria . The journalist and author Robert Misik was the first to carry the word on.
Stackl is married to the radio journalist Brigitte Fuchs. He lives in Vienna and in southern Burgenland .

Publications (selection)

  • It all started with Danzig. In: Ernest Hauer, Franz Reithmayr (Hrsg.): Get out of the dead end. A reader on the turn in the east. Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-901053-04-2 .
  • 1989. Overthrow of the dictatorships. Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7076-0293-7 .
  • Atención. The best reports from Latin America. Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7076-0504-4 .
  • El bigotón dreary. In: Eduardo Zanini: Raúl Alfonsín, el hombre que hizo falta. Buenos Aires 2018, ISBN 978-987-37-8379-1 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Standard journalist Stackl writes for the "New York Times". (derstandard.at)
  2. ↑ Posts for “El País” (elpais.com)
  3. ↑ Report in the journal Horizont (horizont.at)
  4. ↑ See (comandantina.com)
  5. ↑ See (wienerzeitung.at)
  6. ↑ (mobile.twitter.com)
personal data
SURNAME Stackl, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling , Vienna