Henrike Brandstötter

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Henrike Brandstötter (born October 13, 1975 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian politician ( NEOS ) and author. She has been a member of the Austrian National Council since October 23, 2019 .

Political career

Henrike Brandstötter volunteered as the NEOS district coordinator in Vienna's 4th district from the beginning of 2014 to August 2019 . She ran for NEOS in the 2015 district council election and won 8.58 percent or three seats in the Wieden district council. Since then she has been leading the team on the Wieden as district representative club chairwoman. In June 2018 Brandstötter was elected to the extended federal board of NEOS, which represents the party's highest strategic body.

One year later, in June 2019, she faced the internal NEOS primaries and was voted fourth on the Vienna state list for the 2019 National Council election and seventh on the federal list. Through this list she succeeded in entering the National Council and on October 23, 2019 she was elected as a member of the XXVII. Legislative period promised. As such, Brandstötter is currently the spokesperson for the media, women, start-ups, development cooperation and Austrians abroad.

job

Henrike Brandstötter began her professional life as an editor and designer at FM4 , where she was also the face of the station's first campaign. She wrote for magazines such as Wiener and Woman , moderated the weekly political magazine at TIV , “Volume - Das Musikmagazin” on TW1 and a stock market broadcast on webfreetv.com. At the end of the nineties, Brandstötter switched to the company side as press spokeswoman for start-ups and the media, including Puls 4 . From 2008 to 2011 she was press spokeswoman for the Vienna ÖVP . In 2012 Brandstötter organized the first international congress for Caritas on the subject of “Future without hunger”.

She was then hired by Wolfgang M. Rosam as a senior consultant, before she was brought into the party professionally as press spokeswoman and campaign manager in June 2014 by the then NEOS federal manager Feri Thierry . After NEOS moved into the Vienna state parliament and municipal council , she took over the management of the in-house agency of NEOS Vienna in April 2016. She put these agendas back because of her candidacy for the National Council in September 2019.

Author

In parallel to her professional and political activities, Henrike Brandstötter travels intensively to Sub-Saharan Africa , primarily as a hitchhiker and backpacker. In 2018 Brandstötter published her first two books dealing with Africa. First “The Big Boda Boda Book” (together with Michael Hafner), a photo and report book about the scene of Ugandan motorcycle taxi drivers, based on which she describes the life and everyday life of small businesses in large African cities. Travel Africa magazine rated the book: "Seldom has a book told Africa's story so delightfully."

"Backpacking in Africa" ​​followed shortly afterwards, a guide for individual travelers on the African continent. Rainer Nowak from the press wrote about it: “Henrike Brandstötter really knows Africa and has taste. And above all humor, which becomes clear when reading her colorful book. She managed a special feat, that of elegant backpacking. "

In 2019, “Be / take yourselves! Decency and Resistance ”. Brandstötter deals with the concept of decency as a projection surface and a much-used concept.

Private life

Henrike Brandstötter lives in Vienna and Mondsee , is married and has a grown-up son.

Publications

  • (in cooperation with Michael Hafner): The Big Boda Boda Book . Indiekator Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3950459340 .
  • Backpacking in Africa . Indiekator Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3950459371 .
  • Behave yourself !: Decency and resistance . Indiekator Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3903293069 .
  • Evolve! Why Europe with its simulation games in Africa fails brilliantly. in No Plan: The future does not plan! Verlag Insel Talks, ISBN 978-3950484106 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Kocina: With a backpack through Africa: Tips for budding backpackers. In: diePresse.com . December 3, 2018, accessed October 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brandstötter, Henrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NEOS), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg