Laura Fischer

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Laura Fischer (* 1998 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist and book author . She is the recipient of the Prälat-Leopold-Ungar-Journalist-Award .

Life

As a student, Laura Fischer was one of the finalists at the Vienna Youth Literature Prize in 2014. In 2016 she received the “VWA Gender Award” from the Austrian Federal Center for Gender Education and Research for her “pre-academic work” on the role of women in Celtic culture and mythology. After graduating from high school , she studied journalism and media management at the FHWien der WKW , completed various internships, for example at the Wiener Zeitung and the Slovak Spectator , and graduated in 2019. She works as a freelance journalist for the magazine Datum and the weekly newspaper Falter .

Together with Marija Barisic, she published her first book in 2019 with the title What remains in the end. Stories about love . The two authors recorded hours of conversations with old people and the dying in retirement homes and hospices . Some spoke "about things with which they have never spoken to anyone before," Katja Mitic said in Die Welt . “Some of the stories are touching, others are more disturbing. But they all have something in common. ”It was a book“ full of memories of love, even the one you didn't get, ”wrote ORF Vienna .

Awards

In 2018 she took second place in the 8th European essay competition on the subject of "Western and Eastern Europe - what separates it and where does the border run?" Organized by the Ackermann community . In 2019 she received the Prälat-Leopold-Ungar-Journalistenpreis in the "Category Print" for her report Alina's Metamorphosis in the monthly magazine Datum . "With clear, straightforward language, Fischer traces the development of her friend Alina, who becomes a fundamentalist Muslim in search of a purpose in life," Der Standard quoted the jury's reasoning.

Book publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Wagner: Vienna Youth Literature Prize. 25 out of 170 texts about "differently different" . Kurier.at, December 21, 2014
  2. ↑ VWA GENDER-AWARD, in: Gender Studies. Journal of the Center for Gender Studies and the Advancement of Women at the University of Salzburg, # 35/2017, page 6, pdf
  3. ↑ Laura Fischer at datum.at
  4. ↑ Katja Mitic: This is what the dying think about love , Die Welt, January 2, 2020
  5. ↑ Culture. “What remains in the end”: dying about love . ORF Wien.at, November 2, 2019
  6. ↑ European Essay Competition 2018. Accessed on July 12, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Alina's transformation. February 28, 2019, accessed June 10, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Journalists Award Prälat-Ungar-Awards among others to date and ORF journalists , Kleine Zeitung, November 13, 2019
  9. ↑ Der Standard Kultur, November 13, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna