Margaretha Kopeinig

Margaretha Kopeinig (born April 13, 1956 in Unterort , Carinthia ) is an Austrian journalist and publicist .

Life

After graduating from the higher federal college for economic women's professions in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Kopeinig studied sociology and education as well as political science and economic and social history at the University of Vienna and the University of Geneva from 1976 to 1982 . In addition, from 1976 to 1979 she completed an apprenticeship as a qualified social worker at the Academy for Social Work of Caritas in the Archdiocese of Vienna . From 1979 to 1983 she was the university advisor of the Austrian Information Service for Development Policy (ÖIE). She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Development Policy and University Education . From 1983 to 1985 she studied postgraduate at the Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios Regionales (CEIDER) of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá (Colombia). She completed her studies in the field of regional planning and development.

From 1986 to 1988 she was press officer for the ÖIE. In 1988 she did her doctorate on female employment in Colombia . In 1988/89 she was PR consultant for the public relations agency Publico. From 1989 to 1991 she was the foreign policy editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung (AZ), the central organ of the SPÖ, and Vienna correspondent of the Slovenian weekly newspaper Demokracija . In 1990 she was part of the UN Observer Mission for the Verification of the Elections in Nicaragua (ONUVEN) in the Central American states of Costa Rica and Nicaragua . In 1991/92 she worked as a freelancer in the foreign editorial office of ORF television.

From 1992 to 1994 she was the EU correspondent for the daily newspaper Kurier in Brussels. She then worked briefly as an editor for the news magazine profil until she returned to the courier at the end of 1994 . There she became head of the Europe department in 2007. Since 2015 she has been a correspondent in Brussels again.

Awards

• 2004: State award for journalistic achievements in the interest of intellectual national defense
• 2006: Hans Kudlich Prize of the Eco-Social Forum Austria (for reporting on Europe)
• 2007: Otto von Habsburg Prize for Journalism from MIDAS (for reporting on minorities in Europe)
• 2008: Prof. Claus Gatterer Prize of the Austrian Journalists Club

Fonts (selection)

• EU presidency. Tasks and role of Austria (= Signum Europe ). Signum-Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85436-279-X .
• with Christoph Kotanko : A European affair. The sage report and the sanctions against Austria . Czernin, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7076-0105-6 .
• Jean-Claude Juncker. The European . Czernin, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7076-0188-9 . (2014 with a foreword by Martin Schulz )
• with Wolfgang Petritsch : The Kreisky principle. The focus is on people . Czernin, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7076-0277-7 .
• with Wolfgang Petritsch: The European opportunity. Restart after the crisis . K & S, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-218-00807-5 .
• with Helmut Brandstätter : This is how Europe can succeed. Conversations with Werner Faymann , Sigmar Gabriel , Federica Mogherini . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-218-00967-6 .
• The thirteenth star. How Austria got into the EU . Czernin, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7076-0497-9 .
• Martin Schulz - from bookseller to man for Europe. The biography . With a foreword by Jean-Claude Juncker , Czernin, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7076-0584-6 .
• Hans Peter Doskozil - Rethinking security , Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-218-01098-6
• Merde alors! Jean Asselborn - a political biography , Czernin-Verlag, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-7076-0711-6

literature

• Markus Stumpf : Austrian Latin America Research 2000. Scientists and experts, activities and recent publications . Latin America Institute, Vienna 2000, p. 72.

Web links

• Literature by and about Margaretha Kopeinig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Margaretha Kopeinig at perlentaucher.de
• Margaretha Kopeinig at Czernin Verlag
• Margaretha Kopeinig at Kremayr & Scheriau
• Margaretha Kopeinig at the courier