Saskia Jungnikl

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Saskia Jungnikl at the Prof. Claus Gatterer Prize (2013)

Saskia Jungnikl (* 1981 in Güssing , Burgenland ) is an Austrian author, columnist and journalist .

Life

Saskia Jungnikl grew up in Reinersdorf in southern Burgenland . After graduating from high school, she studied history and journalism in Vienna . Shortly before completing her studies, she moved to the Vienna University of Applied Sciences , where she completed her journalism studies at the Institute for Journalism & Media Management in 2008.

During her studies she worked as a freelance journalist on Austrian domestic politics. Until 2006 she wrote for the Viennese city newspaper "Falter" . From 2006 to 2009 she published articles on Austrian domestic politics for the monthly magazine "Datum" . In 2008 she moved to derStandard.at , and in 2010 she worked as an editor for domestic policy for the print sister company Der Standard . Her texts appear again and again on the Austria pages of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Her autobiographical book Papa has shot himself was published in November 2014 , in which she writes about the suicide of her father, the musician and director Erhard Jungnikl. In it she works on how suicide has changed her life and that of her family. She devoted individual chapters to the medical and media side of the subject of suicide. However, the book goes beyond personal processing. According to Der Freitag , it reflects "the silent suffering" ... "of a generation of men who grew up in the post-war period and from whom certain norms, family images and professions were expected ...". The book was preceded by an article in the Standard that generated a great response. For the article she received the honorable recognition of the Claus-Gatterer-Preis for her "high risk taking and the great truthfulness with which she approached the taboo topic 'suicide" "and the Prelate Leopold-Ungar-Journalist-Prize. The German illustrated Stern , the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse and the Vienna city newspaper Falter conducted interviews with Jungnikl about the book. The radio stations FM4 and hr1 - on the occasion of the ARD theme week tolerance - also conducted interviews with her on this topic. On November 21, 2014 she was a guest on the WDR talk show Kölner Treff as part of the ARD theme week Tolerance . The book was presented during the culture week on the Austrian television broadcaster ORF2 . Based on the book, a film documentation was created by Dagmar Knöpfel for 3sat in 2015 .

At the end of 2014 she left the Standard Group. Jungnikl lives in Vienna and Hamburg. For the magazine Datum she leads the discussion column "Auf Leben und Tod", interviewed for example Josef Hader , Renée Schroeder , Anna Weidenholzer , Heide Schmidt and Armin Wolf (journalist) .

In her second book A Journey into Life, or How I Learned to Overcome the Fear of Death , Jungnikl deals with death again. Similar to her debut, the approach is personal. In an interview with Die Presse, she describes the book as "a kind of confrontation therapy" that then developed into a "journey into life" for her.

Awards

Publications

  • Papa shot himself . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-596-03072-9 .
  • A journey into life or how I learned to overcome the fear of death . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-596-03645-5 .

Book contributions:

  • My Burgenland . In: Vera Sebauer (Ed.): Travel book Burgenland: Places, Views, Poetry . Edition Marlit, March 2014, ISBN 978-3-902931-05-4 .
  • My Burgenland . In: Michael Gerbavsits (Hrsg.), Georg Pehm (Hrsg.), Walter Schneeberger (Hrsg.): My Burgenland: Views. Insights. Outlook. Leykam, Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-7011-7952-7 .
  • Portrait of a 93 year old. In: Günther Brandstetter (Ed.), Marietta Mühlfellner (Ed.): Old age: 15 portraits . Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3702508791 .
  • Espresso. In: Alain Barbero, Barbara Rieger: Melange of poetry: Viennese coffee house moments in black and white . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3218010825 .
  • Ahmed flees. In: Siegmund Kleinl (Hrsg.), Peter Wagner (Hrsg.): 71 or the curse of the prime number. Edition Marlit, March 2017, ISBN 978-3-902931085 .

Web links

Commons : Saskia Jungnikl  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saskia Jungnikl, Der Standard: "Journalism in particular is not a profession in which one should and can persist." , fh-wien.ac.at
  2. ↑ “Something like that won't be right again” , interview with Saskia Jungnikl, from: Falter 44/12
  3. ↑ Fiona Sara Schmidt: Man is sadly silent , Der Freitag, issue 4714, November 24, 2014
  4. ↑ Papa shot himself . The standard of March 23, 2013; a week later, a follow-up title appeared with "Suizid: A Taboo Topic That Shouldn't Be" ; both texts were accessed on May 3, 2020.
  5. ↑ OTS: Prof. Claus Gatterer Prize 2013 goes to Nina Horaczek, honorable mention to Saskia Jungnikl , May 15, 2013
  6. ↑ ARD theme week tolerance15. until November 21, 2014, ›Anders als du Denkst‹, interviewees, talk guests, experts and their books , fischerverlage.de, PDF file, p. 10
  7. ↑ Interview on the book "Papa has shot himself" "That he was alone in the end will always hurt" , stern.de, November 6, 2014
  8. ↑ Suizid: Talking About It Can Save Lives , Die Presse , November 8, 2014
  9. ↑ a b “Something like that won't be right again” , Falter 44/2014
  10. ↑ "Papa shot himself": A sentence that Saskia Jungnikl will always be with and a fact that has divided her life into a before and an after.
  11. ↑ Interview with the author: "Papa shot himself" , hr1.de, November 18, 2014
  12. ↑ Kölner Treff: Comedians, Concept Artists and Speakers ... , wdr.de, November 21, 2014
  13. ↑ Book tip: Saskia Jungnikl "Papa shot himself"
  14. ↑ Papa shot himself , film by Dagmar Knöpfel, 2015
  15. ↑ "Auf Leben und Tod" on datum.at. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Anna-Maria Wallner: "Mourning doesn't go away, but it changes". July 8, 2017. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
  17. ↑ OTS: Prof. Claus Gatterer Prize 2013 goes to Nina Horaczek, honorable mention to Saskia Jungnikl , May 15, 2013
  18. ^ OTS: Prälat-Leopold-Ungar-Journalistinnenpreis 2013 awarded by Caritas and Raiffeisen, November 5, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Jungnikl, Saskia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Güssing , Burgenland