Hanna Herbst

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Hanna Herbst

Hanna Herbst (born 1990 in Mainz ) is a German-Austrian journalist and author .

Life

Herbst was born in Mainz, and in 1998 her family moved to Salzburg . After studying psychology for a year at the Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales (UCES) in Buenos Aires, she moved to Vienna in 2009 and began studying political science at the University of Vienna .

From September 2015 she was deputy editor-in-chief of Vice Austria . She started an internship there in 2013 after applying to a college for journalism and being rejected there, and was employed from 2014. She was mainly responsible for video and political reporting. Her focus is on right-wing extremism , sexism , racism and human rights . In 2014 she was voted one of the best young journalists of the year by the trade journal Der Österreichische Journalist . In 2015, together with Vice Austria , she received the New Media Journalism Award from the Austrian Journalists Club . In 2016, Forbes named her as one of 30 influential people under 30 in Austria. In August 2018, Herbst, together with the entire editorial team of Vice Austria, resigned, as the Austrian editorial team should in future be controlled more from Germany.

Herbst was repeatedly attacked online for her journalistic work. In 2016 she published in Falter together with the journalists Corinna Milborn , Barbara Kaufmann and Ingrid Thurnher the article “It's enough for us” about hatred against women on the Internet and was nominated for this at the Austrian Journalism Days in the “Story of the Year” category. The FPÖ- related newspaper Wochenblick referred to her in an article in 2017 in relation to a critical tweet in autumn about the 2017 National Council election as "hate Hanna". The Austrian Press Council , the Forum Journalism and Media Vienna and the Concordia Press Club saw this as an attack on freedom of the press in Austria .

Herbst co-edited the magazine liga of the Austrian League for Human Rights from 2016 to 2019 . For this she received the Prof. Claus Gatterer Recognition Award in 2017 for special achievements in socially engaged journalism. In 2018 she was one of the initiators of the Women's Referendum 2.0 . In the same year she was accepted into the jury of the Vienna Women's Prize .

In 2020, Herbst received the literature grant from the City of Vienna and was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition . She created her introduction video for the 44th Days of German-Language Literature together with Leon Engler as a song that was published under the title Herbstmanöver (based on Ingeborg Bachmann's poem of the same name) on the Viennese label Ink Music .

Since June 2020, Hanna Herbst has been in charge of the journalistic content in Jan Böhmermann's show in the ZDF main program, which is due to start in autumn 2020.

In 2020 she moved from Vienna to Cologne .

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hanna Herbst. In: Elevate. January 16, 2019, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Spied on by journalists - Interview today: Hanna Herbst, VICE. In: PR spy. May 17, 2017. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Nina Oberbucher: Hanna Herbst: "Solidarity can feel good". In: Kurier. Retrieved on August 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The best 30 under 30 - The Austrian Journalist - media journalism newspaper print magazine radio tv online. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Forbes Austria presents “30 under 30 - Austria” for the first time. In: OTS. April 7, 2016, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Kathleen Hildebrand: Vice Austria - "You can go that far". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. August 14, 2018, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Austrian Journalism Days publish nominations for the "Stories of the Year". In: OTS. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Journalist organizations criticize personal attacks on journalists. In: The Standard. Retrieved on August 5, 2019 (Austrian German).
  9. ^ Hanna Herbst «Austrian Journalism Days. Retrieved on August 5, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ You don't say feminist | Hanna Herbst . 2018, ISBN 978-3-7106-0194-1 ( brandstaetterverlag.com [accessed August 5, 2019]).
  11. ↑ ktv_creitmayr: Women's Prize of the City of Vienna. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Bachmann Prize 2020. May 28, 2020, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  13. ^ Leon Engler & Hanna Herbst: "Autumn maneuvers". In: Ink Music. June 18, 2020, accessed June 22, 2020 .
  14. ↑ a b "Neo Magazin Royale" becomes "ZDF Magazin": New Böhmermann show with Hanna Herbst as head of duty. In: derStandard.de. June 1, 2020, accessed June 29, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Short biography at Brandstätter Verlag, accessed June 19, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Autumn, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz