Horst Knapp (journalist)
Horst Knapp (born April 10, 1925 in Vienna ; † January 7, 1996 there ) was an Austrian business journalist .
Life
From 1946 to 1950 Knapp worked as an editor for United Press International , later as a freelance journalist. From 1960 he was editor of the weekly economic policy financial news . In addition to this main activity, he was a columnist and commentator in various Austrian daily newspapers and for ORF .
In 1967 Knapp caused a sensation with Big Bargain , a solidarity pact he proposed between the social partners , the government and the central bank with the aim of warding off impending cost inflation.
Knapp was buried in the Hernals cemetery .
Note: He is confused with Horst Knapp, the German entrepreneur of the same name (Schaco G. Schanzenbach & Co., Frankfurt-Bockenheim) and association politician (1918–1984).
Fonts
- The money without a veil , 1948
- The labor shortage in full employment , 1960
- Economic Primer , 1967
- Economics in a nutshell , 1976
- Supply seeks demand , 1984
- Economics, in a nutshell. An ABC of Economic Life , 1985
- Selection Horst Knapp. Economy in citations - taxes, state, statistics , 1992 ISBN 978-3-85436-124-4
- Big Bargain and Other Contributions from Four Decades , 1996, ISBN 978-3-216-30254-0
Horst Knapp Prize
In his honor, UniCredit Bank Austria has donated the Prof. Horst Knapp Prize for outstanding achievements in business journalism every year since 1996 . The prize, endowed with 7,000 euros, is awarded by an independent jury - currently chaired by Ewald Nowotny , the former governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank.
Previous winners were
- 1996: Reinhard Göweil and Waltraud Langer , business editors at ORF
- 1997: Georg Wailand and Regina Forster (sponsorship award)
- 1998: Michael Hann
- 1999: Liselotte Palme , profile journalist
- 2000: Andreas Schnauder, journalist at Standard
- 2001: Walter Sonnleitner , business editor at ORF
- 2002: Margarete Freisinger
- 2003: Richard Wiens, business editor for Salzburger Nachrichten
- 2004: Christine Domforth, business editor for the daily newspaper Die Presse
- 2005: Eva Pfisterer and Michael Csoklich, business editors at ORF
- 2006: Renate Graber, business editor of the daily newspaper Der Standard
- 2007: Helmut A. Gansterer , editor of trend
- 2008: Michael Nikbakhsh , head of the economic department at Profil
- 2009: Luise Ungerboeck, "Standard" and Franz Schellhorn , "Die Presse"
- 2010: Michael Bachner, Head of Economics at the daily "Kurier"
- 2011: Dietmar Mascher, employee of the daily newspaper "Oberösterreichische Nachrichten"
- 2012: Volker Obermayr, business editor at ORF
- 2013: Hanna Kordik , Co-Head of Economics at the daily newspaper Die Presse
- 2014: Christoph Varga , head of economics at the time, pictured on ORF
- 2015: Eric Frey , head of the daily newspaper Der Standard
- 2016: Regina Forster, Deputy Head of Economics, and Thomas Karabaczek, Head of Economics at the Austria Press Agency (APA)
- 2017: Ulla Kramar-Schmid , ZIB 2 editor
- 2018: Andrea Hodoschek, "Economy from the inside" columnist for the daily newspaper "Kurier"
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Knapp in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Horst Knapp (journalist) in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finanznachrichten special issue ( Memento from December 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 969 kB): Half a century of success, 2002, accessed on October 4, 2009.
- ↑ Prof. Horst Knapp Prize . bankaustria.at, accessed on November 20, 2013.
- ^ DerStandard.at - Christoph Varga: "Appetite of the parties" on ORF . Article dated May 29, 2015, accessed June 15, 2015.
- ↑ Christoph Varga awarded the Prof. Horst Knapp Prize 2014 . Article dated May 28, 2015, accessed June 15, 2015.
- ↑ derStandard.at - Eric Frey awarded the Horst Knapp Prize . Article dated May 23, 2016, accessed May 24, 2016.
- ↑ derStandard.at - Horst Knapp Prize for 2016 to APA journalists Forster and Karabaczek . Article dated May 23, 2017, accessed June 1, 2017.
- ↑ derStandard.at: Horst Knapp Prize to Ulla Kramar-Schmid from the "ZiB 2" editorial team . Article dated May 30, 2018, accessed May 31, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Close, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian business journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1996 |
| Place of death | Vienna |