Judith Brandner

Judith Brandner (2019)

Judith Brandner (born April 15, 1963 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian journalist and publicist .

Life

After graduating from the Bundesrealgymnasium Salzburg in 1981 , she became an academically certified translator for English and Japanese (1987). In 2004 she earned a bachelor's degree in Japanese Studies and Translation Studies .

From 1984 to 1997 Brandner was an editor for the ORF international service on shortwave (later Radio Austria International ). In 1987/88 she was a member of the Austrian foreign trade delegation Tokyo . In 1994/95 she was the ORF foreign correspondent in Kyoto , Japan. In 1997 she became a freelancer at ORF Radio Austria 1 . She moderates the Ö1 program Radiokolg. In addition, reports and features etc. a. on SRG DRS 2 , SWR2 , RAI Südtirol , HR and Deutschlandradio and articles in national newspapers and magazines such as Die Zeit , Der Standard , Die Presse and WOZ Die Wochenzeitung .

She teaches at the VHS polycollege in Vienna. In 2002 she was a lecturer at the Institute for East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna and in 2014 at the Institute for Japanese Studies. 2009, 2011/12 and 2014 visiting professor at Nagoya Municipal University .

Awards

• 1998: Human Rights Award of the Press Club Concordia
• 2005: Herta Pammer Prize of the Catholic Women's Movement in Austria
• 2005: Media Prize from the Austrian Standards Institute
• 2006: Award for journalistic achievements in the interests of families
• 2008: Prälat-Leopold-Ungar-Journalist-Award
• 2009: Journalist Prize from the Central Office of Austrian State Hunting Associations
• 2012: Nomination for the Dr.-Karl-Renner-Publizistikpreis
• 2013: Willy and Helga Sales-Verlon Prize for anti-fascist journalism

Publications

Fonts (selection)

• Report Japan. Scratches in the glossy paint (= Picus reports ). Picus-Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85452-997-2
• Report Japan. Out of control and in motion (= Picus reports ). Picus-Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7117-1017-8
• At home in Fukushima. The life after. Portraits . With photos by Katsuhiro Ichikawa , Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-218-00906-5

Others (selection)

• Deutschlandfunk.de , Dossier , March 4, 2016: Japanese nuclear power plants. Day laborers at the reactor.

Web links

• Literature by and about Judith Brandner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Judith Brandner  in the German Digital Library }
• judithbrandner.at
• Austria 1 , oe1.orf.at: Team - Judith Brandner