Josef Broukal

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Josef Broukal (2002)

Josef Broukal (born November 9, 1946 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist and former politician ( SPÖ ). Broukal was a member of the National Council from 2002 to 2008 .

Life

After graduating from high school , Josef Broukal began to study English and social history , but from 1970 worked as a freelance editor for Molden Verlag and later as a contribution designer and copywriter for the Austria Wochenschau as well as senior secretary for public relations at the SPÖ in Lower Austria . In 1975 he moved to the ORF regional studio in Lower Austria, later was the editor and presenter of Zeit im Bild 2 , head of domestic policy and editor-in-chief of the current television service.

Broukal was best known as a journalist for his election reporting and as a specialist in new media . Since the beginning of the nineties, Broukal, along with Robert Hochner and Horst Friedrich Mayer, has been one of the most famous presenters on ORF television. In 1997, 1998 and 2002 the readers and the expert jury of the daily newspaper Kurier voted him the “most popular news presenter” and awarded him the Austrian TV award Romy .

After his dismissal as editor-in-chief of the ORF regional studio in Vienna, Broukal built up a second professional pillar as a trainer for application-oriented programming languages: dBASE , Clipper , Visual Basic for Applications .

He was co-author of an extensive program generator for the Clipper compiler ("FDI Toolbox for Clipper", Vieweg 1991) and author of a comprehensive script on VBA for Excel with numerous code examples ("EXCEL faster, faster, safer with Visual Basic for Applications") in 1996 on the Joanneum Research website ). Since the beginning of the Internet service World Wide Web , Broukal has contributed to the spread of this new medium in Austria as a lecturer and author (also on ORF television). For a long time he moderated the science magazine Modern Times on ORF. Broukal has also been working as an IT journalist for the daily newspaper Die Presse and the Austrian industrial magazine since the mid-1990s , since 2003 also for the Kleine Zeitung and since 2008 as a columnist for Austria (newspaper) . From April 2012 on, Broukal moderated programs for the Vienna city television W24 for several years .

Political career

May 1st 2007 in Vienna

In the National Council election in 2002 he entered the National Council for the SPÖ . However, he was unable to realize his ministerial ambitions due to the failed government negotiations. Broukal is said to have strong support in the national organizations, while his rivalry with chairman Alfred Gusenbauer meant that he did not hold an important position in the federal party for a long time. In April 2004, a solution to the conflict that was satisfactory to both sides came about: Broukal was appointed deputy. Club chairman (election in July 2004) a stronger anchoring in the parliamentary group of the party, there was no increased participation in the party headquarters.

On June 4, 2004, his statement to the governing parties ÖVP and FPÖ "You are at liberty to mourn the National Socialists" caused a scandal. The meeting was interrupted, the ÖVP and FPÖ demanded his resignation.

On July 7, 2008, he announced the end of his political career and resigned his functions as deputy club chairman and SPÖ science spokesman after the SPÖ had decided after the dissolution of the coalition between the SPÖ and ÖVP to continue to comply with the government agreement and not for its abolition of tuition fees, which had previously been a key election promise.

On September 11, 2008 Broukal appeared again for the first time as a science spokesman for the SPÖ in the media. In the course of the election campaign for the early National Council election in 2008, the tuition fees were abolished for almost all students with the votes of the SPÖ, FPÖ and the Greens. Broukal finally resigned from the National Council on October 27, 2008.

According to politics

In 2009 Broukal published the book Politics in Austrian: Between Desire and Reality together with Peter Filzmaier , Kathrin Hämmerle , Erwin Niederwieser, Peter A. Ulram and Hans Winkler .

In 2010 the book News from the demise of the SPÖ is greatly exaggerated , with contributions from u. a. by Robert Misik , Barbara Blaha , Brigitte Ederer , Sonja Ablinger and Alfred Gusenbauer .

In the same year, Education in Crisis appears: Why we cannot afford to do nothing .

In 2015 Broukal wrote a condensed version of his work, The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, reviewed and approved by Manfried Rauchsteiner .

Since 2019 Broukal has been working as a teacher at the AHS on the Montessori Campus Wien-Hütteldorf and at new secondary schools in Vienna.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Josef Broukal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Josef Broukal  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Link to the script. In: Joanneum Research. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ But no abolition of the tuition fees: Broukal is retiring. derStandard.at, July 8, 2008, archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; accessed on May 6, 2020 .
  3. ^ Message on ORF.at: Greens, FPÖ: Basic agreement with SPÖ ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Broukal, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna