Marco Schreuder

Official campaign photo by Marco Schreuder

Marco Schreuder (born April 27, 1969 in Putten , Netherlands ) is an Austrian politician ( Greens ). He was a member of the Vienna State Parliament and City Council until 2010 and a member of the Austrian Federal Council from November 4, 2011 to 2015 , of which he has been a member again since October 23, 2019.

School and professional career

Marco Schreuder was born in Putten, in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. In 1975 his parents emigrated with him and his sister to Sankt Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut . From 1975 he attended the elementary school in Rußbach near St. Wolfgang and from 1979 the secondary school in Bad Ischl . In 1983 Schreuder continued his training at the Salzkammergut tourism school in Bad Ischl, and in 1984 the family moved to this town. After graduating from high school, Schreuder went to Vienna in 1988, where, after a few months as a waiter, he began studying art history at the University of Vienna . Without previous experience, Schreuder applied in 1991 to study directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, where he studied until 1995. His diploma production “Lederfresse” by Helmut Krausser was invited to a festival in Moscow .

As a result, Schreuder became heavily involved in the gay and lesbian scene and from 1996 wrote articles in lesbian and gay media. In 1997 Schreuder was press spokesman for the festival “Vienna is the other way around - temptations from the other bank”, from 1998 he worked for “T Junction Contemporary Dance”. The project was discontinued in 2000 due to a lack of subsidies. After the end of the dance project, Schreuder became editor-in-chief of the gay magazine Bussi in 2000 , and in 2001 he joined the Green Club in the town hall as a speaker for human rights and anti-discrimination. He worked here with Maria Vassilakou .

Political career

Marco Schreuder at the final event of the Rainbow Parade on June 30, 2007

After working as a specialist at the Wiener Grünen, Schreuder was elected spokesman for the Greens the other way round . From 2005 to 2010 he was a member of the Vienna State Parliament and City Council . He was the first openly gay member and campaigns primarily for the rights of homosexual and bisexual people as well as transgender people and fights for the preservation of the Jewish cemetery in Währing .

On October 21, 2011, Schreuder was sent to the Federal Council for the first time by the Vienna State Parliament and City Council . From 2013 he was chairman of the Green parliamentary group. After the state parliament and municipal council elections in Vienna in 2015 , Marco Schreuder was no longer confirmed as a member of the Federal Council by the General Assembly of the Vienna Greens and had to leave the Federal Council on November 23, 2015 in favor of his party colleague Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic , who took over the Green Federal Council mandate in Vienna.

After the National Council election in 2019 and the resulting change of Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic to the National Council, Marco Schreuder was reappointed to the Federal Council by the Vienna State Parliament.

Private

Marco Schreuder grew up as a Jehovah's Witness . In St. Wolfgang, Leopold Engleitner , who was persecuted from 1934 to 1945, was his neighbor. In his youth he became an agnostic . In 2005, while still a Dutch citizen , he married his partner. He then took on Austrian citizenship in order to be able to run for the state and municipal council elections.

Web links

Commons : Marco Schreuder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marco Schreuder on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Marco Schreuder at www.meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marco Schreuder, biography. Retrieved November 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Green ex-Federal Council: Basic democracy as a problem . Article on diePresse.com of November 16, 2015, accessed on November 26, 2015.
3. ↑ Comment from September 16, 2008 10:04 p.m. on his blog entry: A plea for Helmut Graupner - Or: How NGOs should be attacked. marco-schreuder.at, September 16, 2008 ( Memento from September 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )