Gudrun Harrer

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Gudrun Harrer at a panel discussion in the Austrian Foreign Ministry in 2015.

Gudrun Harrer (born February 24, 1959 in Schwanenstadt ) is an Austrian journalist and Middle East expert.

Life

Harrer initially studied music in Detmold and Milan before studying Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Vienna from 1986 to 1992 . In 1993 she joined the daily Der Standard as foreign policy editor, and in 1998 she became head of the foreign policy department. At the same time, Gudrun Harrer was doing a dissertation in political science at the University of Vienna on the Iraqi nuclear program ("Dismantling the Iraqi Nuclear Program. The Inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Iraq 1991–1998).

Gudrun Harrer has been teaching Modern Arabic History at the University of Vienna since 2005 and History and Politics of the Middle East at the Diplomatic Academy Vienna since 2007.

In 2006, Gudrun Harrer was sent to Iraq by the Austrian federal government as special envoy of the Austrian EU presidency and chargé d'affaires of the Baghdad embassy, ​​where she represented Austria during the EU presidency.

Harrer has been the chief editor of the daily newspaper Der Standard in Vienna since 2007 , where she mainly deals with the Arab and Islamic world, but also regularly writes the "Einserkastl" column. Harrer is a member of the board of the Austrian Orient Society Hammer-Purgstall and a member and deputy secretary of the board of the Austrian Institute for International Politics (OIIP). Since 2017 she has been a member of the three-person advisory board of CARPO (Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient) in Bonn, Germany, and since 2018 a member of the board of the Austrian Society for Political Science (OeGPW).

Gudrun Harrer has also published on culinary topics from time to time, for example in the series "Chief Own Cooker", Edition Vincent Klink. She has published two cookbooks with Christa Fuchs: Als Oma ate Quargel in the cellar , 1999, and Bsoffene Kapuziner , 2005.

Awards

Publications

  • To reproduce Arabic words in the German-language media. Problem, practice and suggested solutions. University thesis 1992 Uni Wien, Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-631-46031-7 .
  • Reasons for war. Attempt on the Iraq War . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85476-108-2 .
  • Review of the Iraq war, early summer 2003 . In: World Power War . Ueberreuther Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-8000-7010-3 .
  • Thoughts on Iraq War and Security . In: Jörg Calließ (Hg :): The interweaving and interweaving of external and internal security . Loccum 2003, ISBN 3-8172-5503-9 .
  • September 11th, Islam and Islamism. In: Franz Leidenmühler (Ed.): War on Terror? Consequences for the 21st Century. Idstein 2003, ISBN 3-933325-23-4
  • Diplomatic crash course in Baghdad or St. Hammer-Purgstall, help! In: Galter / Haas (ed.): Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. Border crossers between Orient and Occident , Graz 2008. ISBN 978-3-7011-0121-4 .
  • Sovereignty and the post-war era. Iraq after signing the Status of Forces Agreement with the USA. Social science series, International Institute for Liberal Politics, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902595-26-3 .
  • Orientals in my head. In: Bunzl / Hafez (Eds.): Islamophobie in Österreich , Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4785-7 .
  • There is no peace without justice . In: Religions on the move. Contact point for world religions, issue 1, Vienna 2009.
  • Perspectives and strategies of the EU towards Iraq. In: Pucher / Frank (Ed.): Strategy and Security 2010. The strategic profile of the European Union. Böhlau, Vienna, 2010. ISBN 978-3-205-78484-5 .
  • Change of fronts - A journalist as a diplomat in the Iraq war . In: Thiele / Thomas / Virchow (ed.): Media - War - Gender. Affirmations and irritations of social orders. Wiesbaden 2010. ISBN 978-3-531-16730-5 .
  • The “liberated” Iraq after 2003. In: Dornik / Gießauf / Iber (ed.): War and economy from antiquity to the 21st century , Innsbruck 2010. ISBN 978-3-7065-4949-3 .
  • Using the Sheikhs: On the co-opting of Sunni tribal militias by the American army in Iraq. In: Bentzin / Fürtig / Krüppner / Spielhaus (ed.): Festschrift for Peter Heine, Freiburg 2010.
  • Afghanistan - a recent analysis . In: Herbert Tichy : Afghanistan. The gateway to India. (1940), illustrations by Herwig Zens, Edition Sunrise, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9501591-4-1 .
  • Racism in the media. In: Pelinka / Haller / König (Hg :) Race - a social and political construction , series of studies on conflict research, Volume 25, Vienna 2010.
  • Fear of terrorism as relief. In: Politicum Sicherheit, Verein für Politik, Graz 2010.
  • ME-NWFZ: The mirage of a Middle East Nuclear Weapon Free Zone . In: Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Middle East, Social Science Series of the IILP, Vienna 2011.
  • Between the Arab spring and the Saudi-Iranian winter. In: Austrian Journal for Political Science, Issue 1, Vienna 2012.
  • Entrusting without Trusting: The International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Disarmament of Iraq . In: Klimburg / Pospisil (ed.): Mediating Security. Comprehensive Approaches to an Ambigious Subject. Lang, Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-631-64346-4 .
  • “The people have overthrown the regime” - Egypt among the Muslim Brotherhood . In: Freedom of Expression Quo Vadis? Human Rights Yearbook 2012/2013. Böhlau, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-78914-7 .
  • Middle Eastern Maze: Analyzes beyond the mainstream . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2014, 2nd supplemented edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-218-00930-0 .
  • Dismantling the Iraqi Nuclear Program. The inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1991-1998 , Routledge, London 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-82839-0 .
  • European Powers and the Naissance of Weak States in the Arab Middle East after World War I. Ortadogu Etütleri / Middle Easter Studies, Vol. 6. Issue 2, p. 96–115, January 2015.
  • The unbending one. Essay on Shirin Ebadi. In: Shirin Ebadi: That is not what the prophet meant . Benevento, Salzburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-7109-0007-5 .
  • Iraq 2017. In: Sure. And tomorrow? Security Policy Annual Preview 2017. Bureau for Security Policy, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-902275-46-2 .
  • The Why: The US Intervention in Iraq in 2003 . In: Fenkart / Gärtner / Swoboda (eds.): Just Intervention? Between the prohibition of violence and the responsibility to protect. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-643-50827-0 .
  • The Middle East in upheaval. In fear? Salzburg University Weeks 2018. Tyrolia Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7022-3723-3 .

Web links

Commons : Gudrun Harrer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CV of Gudrun Harrer (PDF) Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  2. ^ Jacques EC Hymans: Achieving Nuclear Ambitions. Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-521-76700-2 , p. 288. Limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Vienna Lectures - Dr. Gudrun Harrer Viennese lectures , undated
  4. ↑ Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Austria: Austrian diplomatic presence in Iraq during EU Council Presidency - BMEIA, Foreign Ministry Austria. In: bmeia.gv.at. December 13, 2005, accessed December 30, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Gudrun Harrer. Analysis and Comments. In: derstandard.at . Retrieved December 30, 2014 .
  6. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Einserkastl Gudrun Harrer . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on January 21, 2018]).
  7. ^ The Board of Directors ( Memento from October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Austrian Orient Society Hammer-Purgstall, accessed on February 9, 2012
  8. ^ Austrian Institute for International Politics: organizational form. In: oiip.ac.at. December 29, 2014, accessed December 30, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Advisory Board - CARPO. Retrieved January 21, 2018 .
  10. ^ Board of Directors - ÖGPW. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  11. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Harrer Gudrun, Fuchs Christa . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on January 21, 2018]).
  12. ↑ derStandard.at - DER STANDARD journalists Harrer and Graber awarded . APA notification of January 24, 2008, accessed on March 29, 2015.
  13. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book 2014, award winners 2014 , press release, December 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Harrer, Gudrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and Middle East expert
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwanenstadt