Lorenz Gallmetzer

Lorenz Gallmetzer (2016), photographed by Ela Angerer .

Lorenz Gallmetzer (born January 11, 1952 in Bozen ) is a South Tyrolean journalist and author . From 1981 to 2011 he worked for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) a. a. as a foreign correspondent in Paris and Washington . Gallmetzer lives as a freelance journalist in Vienna .

Life

Youth and years of study

Gallmetzer grew up in Bolzano as the second son of a family of craftsmen. His two grandmothers came from the Italian-influenced neighboring province of Trentino , the former Welschtirol . Family origins, schooling and everyday life in Bozen, then 80 percent of which was inhabited exclusively by Italian-speaking citizens, promoted his bilingualism early on. Even before taking his final exams at the Bozen commercial college, Gallmetzer moved to Vienna in 1970, where he completed his Matura as an external specialist and then began studying Romance studies. From 1975 he worked in South Tyrol as a teacher for German, history and civics at compulsory school and at the commercial academy. At the same time, he continued his studies of literature and history at the University of Milan as a “working student” .

Journalistic career

At the end of the 1970s, Gallmetzer was involved in the establishment of the Südtiroler Volkszeitung and Tandem magazines in Bozen, part of the alternative movement around Alexander Langer . In 1979 he began working as a journalist for the RAI broadcaster Bolzano . In 1981 he joined the ORF 's foreign TV department in Vienna . In 1985 he went to Washington as the second correspondent for a year, and from 1987 to 1995 he headed the ORF correspondent's office in Paris. After an interlude as director and presenter of the TV cultural program 10 ½ and as a reporter for Am Schauplatz magazine, he worked as a correspondent in Paris for another three years . From 2001 to 2007 Gallmetzer worked as a reporter for the weekly magazine Weltjournal , then he headed the editorial team of the discussion program Club 2 until 2009 . In the course of his many years of activity, Gallmetzer has made numerous documentaries for ORF, including a three-part series about France ( La Grande Nation and Life like God in France ) that was awarded the Gerhard Freund Ring of Honor . Gallmetzer has been working as a freelance journalist since 2011.

Publications

Vanilla - A bar and its time , Picus Verlag , Vienna 1994 (together with Christiane Dertnig). Awarded the Austrian State Prize as “One of the 12 most beautiful books in Austria 1994”.
Bob Curtis . High Priest of Afro Contemporary Dance , Folio Verlag , Vienna / Bozen 2005 (together with Christiane Dertnig).
A sad May 1 , in: The Fantasy and Power - 1968 and after, ed. by Raimund Löw , Czernin Verlag , Vienna 2007.
175 years of railways for Austria , Brandstätter , Vienna 2012 (together with Christoph Posch).
Clash of cultures? Struggle between civilizations? in: Beyond Cain and Abel - In Memoriam Alexander Langer 1995–2015, Edizioni alphabeta Verlag / Drava Verlag , Bozen / Klagenfurt 2015.
Addicted - from alcohol to gambling - addicts tell , Kremayr & Scheriau , Vienna 2016.
From Mussolini to Salvini . Italy as a pioneer of modern national populism, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2019.

Awards

1992: Gerhard-Freund-Ehrenring for the TV documentary La Grande Nation and Leben wie Gott in France

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Gallmetzer, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian journalist and book author (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH	January 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bolzano