Karoline Hochreiter

Karoline Hochreiter (born March 29, 1950 in Vöcklabruck ) is a former Austrian politician ( BL ), psychologist and psychotherapist. From 1989 to 1999 she was a member of the Salzburg Green Party in the Salzburg State Parliament .

education and profession

After kindergarten, Hochreiter attended the Vöcklabruck elementary school from 1956 to 1960 and then attended the secondary school in Vöcklabruck from 1960 to 1964. She then moved from 1964 to 1967 to the technical college for economic women's professions in Bad Ischl and then worked from 1967 to 1971 as an editorial secretary in Linz for the magazine Welt der Frau and also attended the federal high school for professionals in Linz from 1967 to 1972. She passed the Matura in 1972 and then studied psychology and education at the University of Vienna from 1972 to 1973 . She then continued her studies in psychology, psychopathology and psychiatry at the University of Salzburg between 1973 and 1982 and received her doctorate in philosophy (Dr. phil.) In 1982. At the same time, she completed a psychodrama training at the Moreno Institute in Überlingen on Lake Constance.

Soe was employed as a psychologist at the Salzburg Children's Hospital from 1981 to 1982, after which she worked from 1984 to 1986 as a psychologist at the mother advisory service of the City of Salzburg. She completed her training as a psychotherapist in 1985 and subsequently worked as a freelance psychotherapist, supervisor and teaching therapist. In 2001 she became a teaching therapist in the psychodrama section of the ÖAGG, and from 2006 to 2009 she was the head of the psychodrama section of the ÖAGG in cooperation with Danube University Krems. Since 2009 she has been working exclusively in her private practice and as a teaching therapist in the Psychodrama section of the ÖAGG and as a lecturer at Danube University Krems.

Politics and functions

Since 2006, Hochreiter has been chairwoman of the training facility of the »Psychodrama« section in the Austrian Working Group for Group Therapy and Group Dynamics (ÖAGG). She represented the Salzburg citizens' list between May 3, 1989 and April 26, 1999 in the Salzburg state parliament.

Private

Hochreiter grew up in Vöcklabruck with three siblings. She is the daughter of a farrier and cart smith and a housewife. She is married and has two children.

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .

Web links

• Karoline Hochreiter on psyonline.at