Karin Lehner

Karin Lehner (* 1958 in Tragwein ), grew up in Perg , is an Austrian historian and journalist .

Career

Lehner studied contemporary history as well as social and economic history at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1985 with a dissertation on “Forbidden Interventions. Social democratic efforts to reform abortion regulations in the interwar period. ”(Published by Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1989). Then she worked for the ORF and took on teaching positions ( women's history , population policy , eugenics , medical ethics ) at the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck . Your professional home at ORF was ultimately the main department for science, education and society and the editorial team of the Radio College.

Awards

• 2007 Austrian adult education radio award in the information section for the program “Traveling People - On the History of the Yenish Minority ” as part of the Ö1 program “Radiocolog”.
• 2008 Media Prize of the Austrian Civil Invalid Association for the four-part series “ Island Gifted . Autism in Transition. "

Publications

• Prohibited interventions. Social democratic efforts to reform abortion regulations in the interwar period , Picus Verlag, Vienna 1989, ISBN 978-3854522-0-72 .
• Reform efforts of the social democracy to § 144 in Austria in the 1st republic , in: The unwritten history - historical women's research. Documentation of the 5th meeting of women historians in Vienna from April 16 to 19, 1984, Wiener Historikerinnen (ed.), Vienna 1984.
• Politics with "human material". Social-Democratic Eugenics in the Twenties , in: An.Schschlag, Volume 9 and Volume 10, Association Women Active in Culture and the Working World (ed.), Vienna 1996.

Web link

• Literature by and about Karin Lehner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knowledge Base Adult Education Biography accessed on February 28, 2010
2. ↑ APA-OTS press release requested on February 28, 2010
3. ↑ APA-OTS press release requested on February 28, 2010