Katharina Krawagna-Pfeifer

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Katharina Krawagna-Pfeifer (* 1956 in Traun , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian journalist .

Life

Katharina Krawagna-Pfeifer grew up in the St. Martin district of the city of Traun with four siblings. Together with her twin sister, Krawagna-Pfeifer attended the elementary school in St. Martin in Traun and the secondary school of the Vöcklabruck school sisters in Linz . From 1970 she attended the natural science secondary school in Wels, where she graduated in 1974. In 1974 she enrolled first in law and journalism at the University of Salzburg and then moved to the University of Linz , where she received her doctorate in law in 1978.

While still a student (1974–1978) she worked from 1974 to 1978 as a freelance journalist for the Salzburger Nachrichten in their Linz editorial team. After studying in Paris, in August 1979 she became the domestic affairs editor of the Salzburger Nachrichten in Salzburg. In 1993 she moved to the Viennese daily Der Standard as head of the domestic political editorial team. In 2002 she took over the management of the European Union office of the daily newspaper Der Standard in Brussels . She dealt intensively with the constitutional convention headed by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and the EU's eastward expansion .

In 2003 she was engaged by the then SPÖ party chairman and later Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer as head of communications for the SPÖ . Against opposition from within the party, she carried out the so-called “ready to go” tour. Gusenbauer visited all of Austria's districts in order to enter into an intensive dialogue with the population. On May 1, 2005, Krawagna-Pfeifer terminated her employment with the SPÖ because of violent internal and public criticism of Gusenbauer. Her successor as SPÖ communications chief was Josef Kalina . The "ready to go" tour was relaunched in 2006 during the intensive election campaign.

Krawagna-Pfeifer became known primarily through her interviews with politicians, writers, feminist activists and publicists. Known among other things with the ÖVP politician Andreas Khol : "The FPÖ stands outside the constitutional arc" or with the German writer and publicist Marion Countess Dönhoff at the height of the Waldheim affair , the Italian feminist Rossana Rossanda or the South Tyrolean green politician Alexander Langer in the Salzburger Nachrichten. In the 1980s she had contacts with the Salzburg group of writers and writers around Max Blaeulich , Ludwig Hartinger and Karl-Markus Gauß , who are intensively involved in the journal Literature and Criticism and, together with Krawagna-Pfeifer, at the height of the revolution in Romania ( 1989) successfully tried to get the elderly Romanian surrealist Gellu Naum, who was then almost forgotten in Western Europe, to leave . Participation in the documentary series Zeitzeugen und Feindbilder , which was carried out jointly by the ORF regional studio Salzburg, the University of Salzburg and the Salzburger Nachrichten.

She regards the formation of the black-blue coalition (ÖVP and FPÖ) under the leadership of Wolfgang Schüssel in January 2000 as a coup d'état . Together with the Mattseer Conference association (chairwoman Ursula Napravnik from the then embassy of the concerned citizens at Vienna Ballhausplatz) - a loose association of politically committed women from business, art, culture and media from Salzburg and Vienna, who settled in Salzburg at the end of the 1990s because of a heated argument about the question of who is allowed to “play” in the public space in Salzburg - she organized the exhibition Acknowledged - Ostracized in February 2010 on the occasion of the anniversary of the black-blue coalition, under the leadership of Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel in the Ragnarhof in Vienna-Ottakring. At the same time, the anthology was sanctions. presents. Because of their included contribution Die Demoralisierung Österreichs. Wolfgang Schüssels brought a lawsuit against the author, the editors and the publisher. In the course of the legal dispute, the study publisher will stop advertising and distributing the book. The process ended in October 2010 with a settlement. Due to her experience during legal disputes, Krawagna-Pfeifer decided to continue and end her court year, which was interrupted in 1979 at the Linz-Urfahr District Court in favor of her journalistic career (it has now been shortened to a total of nine months) in 2013 at the Salzburg Regional Court. At the Kirchberg Talks in October 2012, which had the motto "Justice, Society and Politics", she dealt with fundamental questions of corruption in her lecture The Law as a Pipeline of Power in Times of Hypercorruption and upheavals in society (keyword: Eurofighter- Purchase , Hypo-Alpe-Adria-Scandal ), the perception by the public and the processing by the judiciary.

Katharina Krawagna-Pfeifer lives and works as a publicist, journalist and communications strategist in Salzburg and Vienna . Every week appeared in the Salzburger Nachrichten under the format controversy is a dispute column on issues of national and international policy.

Awards

  • 1997 Kurt Vorhofer Prize for Quality Journalism in Austria, presented by the then First President of the National Council, Heinz Fischer . In her acceptance speech, A Question of Character , she described her basic stance on journalism and particularly addressed moral and ethical issues. She donated half of the prize money to the refugee worker Maria Loley .

Publications

Contributions
  • In: Sanctions. Ten years later. The measures taken by the European Union against the Austrian government in 2000. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4823-6 .
  • The black and blue carnival or the grotesque red, white and red time. In: Frederick Baker, Petra Herczeg (ed.): The shameful republic. Ten years after black and blue in Austria. Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7076-0313-2 , p. 42ff.
  • Red Johanna, hated and loved. In: Eva Kreisky, Margit Niederhuber (ed.) Johanna Dohnal. Another commemorative publication. Milena Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85286-068-7
  • The perception of the small (and not so small) things together with Andreas Koller. At home alone in Rubina Möhring (Ed.) Austria. Politics, media and justice after the political change , Holger Ehling Publishing, Frankfurt am Main, London 2001, ISBN 3-88939-587-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ex-communications chief Krawagna-Pfeifer leaves the SPÖ. In: derStandard. April 27, 2005, accessed February 9, 2016 .
  2. Samo Kobenter: Chronology: constitutional arch, tightly stretched. In: The Standard . May 27, 2005, accessed February 11, 2016 .
  3. Respected - Outlawed