Manfred Jochum

Manfred Jochum (born April 21, 1942 in Vienna ; † July 10, 2009 there ) was an Austrian broadcasting director . From the late 1960s to the early 1970s he worked as an educator in the Wilhelminenberg children's home and other homes in the city of Vienna.

biography

Although he was born in Vienna, Jochum grew up in Carinthia and Burgenland , where he completed compulsory school. From 1963 to 1972 he worked as a specialist in the educational service in homes of MA 11 for school children with difficult upbringing in Vienna on Wilhelminenberg and also in the Hohe Warte home, where sexual assaults were also on the agenda in addition to acts of violence. He then studied educational science at the University of Vienna and obtained his license as a teacher at an elementary school . He then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Educational Sciences and also acted as a lecturer at the University of Vienna.

In 1976 Jochum switched to ORF radio , where he initially worked in the science department; In 1983 he was largely responsible for setting up the Radio College , which he headed until 1992. In 1992 he also took over the management of the science department, and in 1998 he was promoted to radio director. In 2002 Jochum left his position.

Jochum died on July 10th, 2009 after a long and serious illness. He was buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall in Vienna.

Awards

• 1981: Austrian State Prize for Science Journalism
• 1996: Prize of the City of Vienna for popular education
• 2000: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 2006: Kardinal Innitzer Prize (appreciation prize for scientifically founded journalism)
• Austrian State Prize for Adult Education

Works

• Socio- educational aspects of home education for those with difficult upbringing and dissocial people , dissertation University Vienna 1972, DNB 760413126 (= dissertations of the University of Vienna , volume 120).

• Manfred Belok ; Manfred Jochum (Hrsg.): Halloween and Christkindl: Festival culture and market . Peter Kaiser Memorial Foundation (1793–1864), Vaduz; European Forum Alpbach . Studienverlag , Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4398-9 (= culture and economy , volume 5).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former ORF director Jochum has died. In: Der Standard online from July 10, 2009
2. ^ Final report of the Wilhelminenberg Commission, excursus: Manfred Jochum S: 213
3. ↑ wien-heute.at/ ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ City of Vienna Andreas Mailath-Pokorny on the death of Manfred Jochum, Rathauskorrespondenz 10 July 2009

Web links

• Final report of the Wilhelminenberg Commission, excursus: Manfred Jochum S: 213
• Literature by and about Manfred Jochum in the catalog of the German National Library