Herbert Lackner (journalist)

Herbert Lackner (2019)

Herbert Lackner (2014)

Herbert Lackner (* 1950 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist.

Life

Lackner studied political science and journalism. He initially worked as a freelancer at Radio Vienna . From 1975 he worked as a journalist in the SPÖ headquarters . From 1980 as domestic politics editor in the Arbeiter-Zeitung , where he became deputy editor-in-chief in 1983. In 1988 Lackner became head of the internal policy department at profil and was editor-in-chief there from 1992. At the end of February 2015 he retired at Profil, followed by Eva Linsinger as head of domestic affairs .

Lackner held lectureships at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck from 2001 to 2003 and teaches at the University of Applied Sciences for Journalism in Vienna.

Awards

• 2008: Kurt Vorhofer Prize
• 2009: Austrian Journalist of the Year
• 2015: Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2017: Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book , special prize for The Flight of Poets and Thinkers: How Europe's Artists and Scientists Escaped the Nazis

Publications

• From aluminum cans and plastic bottles. THE EMERGENCY OF THE PRODUCT. in: Renate Marschalek, Peter Pelinka (Hrsg.): Red-Green Kick. With a foreword by Kurt Steyrer . Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-224-16510-3 .
• Herbert Waldhauser, Alberich Klinger, Herbert Lackner, Helmut A. Gansterer : A country on its way. NP Buchverlag , Salzburg 2005, ISBN 3-85326-384-4 .
• The Escape of Poets and Thinkers: How Europe's Artists and Intellectuals Escaped the Nazis , Ueberreuter, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-8000-7680-2
• Heinz Fischer - A walk through the decades , Ecowin-Verlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7110-0176-4
• Two paths in life. A debate: Peter Turrini and Erwin Pröll , Ueberreuter-Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-8000-7719-9
• When the night fell: Europe's poets and thinkers between the wars and on the eve of fascism and Nazi barbery , Ueberreuter-Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-8000-7729-8
• Das Schweizerhaus : History of a Viennese Institution , Ueberreuter-Verlag, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-8000-7747-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ derStandard.at - "Profile": Eva Linsinger succeeds Herbert Lackner as head of domestic politics . APA notification of January 21, 2015, accessed on March 14, 2015.
2. ↑ derStandard.at - Herbert Lackner is the "Journalist of the Year" . APA notification dated December 15, 2009, accessed March 29, 2015.
3. ↑ Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria for Christian Rainer and Herbert Lackner ( Memento from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book 2017 goes to Arundhati Roy . OTS report of January 9, 2018, accessed on January 17, 2018.