Gerald Heidegger

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Gerald Heidegger (born November 16, 1969 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist . Since 1999 he has been editor of the Internet news site of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation with ORF.at .

Life

Gerald Heidegger grew up in Vienna-Mauer and from 1980 to 1988 attended the Goethe Gymnasium in Astgasse, Vienna 14, from which he graduated with the Matura . After completing his military service with the Austrian Armed Forces, Heidegger studied comparative literature, English and American studies at the University of Vienna and the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon. After completing his studies in 1994, Heidegger was a Junior Fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Studies (IFK) Vienna. Since then he has also worked on the supervision and conception of numerous exhibitions, including the Upper Austrian State Exhibition in 1996 ( From the call to the obituary , Mondsee Castle). From autumn 1994 he wrote a doctoral thesis on the influence of Montaigne on the anthropology debates around 1800 in Germany at the Institute for Modern German Philology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg.

Heidegger has been an editorial assistant for the news site of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation since 1997 . In May 1999 he was appointed editor-in-chief of ORF Online. Since then responsible for the implementation of numerous web projects at ORF, including the ORF.at News App or the ORF player project 'Topos' as well as numerous special channels for elections, including "Being President", "Ballhausplatz 2" and "ORF.at Wahlstimmen".

He taught a. a. Media Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck and publishes articles on the history of the media a. a. in the FAZ and in telepolis .

Individual evidence

  1. Heidegger, Gerald (ORF.at) , accessed on May 4, 2020