Maria von Welser

Maria von Welser (2014)

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Maria von Welser in an interview at Bayern 1 (July 2019). Interviewer: Gabi Fischer

Maria Freifrau von Welser (born June 26, 1946 in Munich ; née Schüssel ) is a German television journalist and deputy chairwoman of UNICEF Germany.

Life

Maria von Welser grew up as the daughter of the fashion journalist Margarete Schüssel, b. Wilke in Rottach-Egern in Upper Bavaria on the Tegernsee . Her father Eduard M. Schüssel was a merchant, Imperial Japanese Consul and from 1925 owner of Schönwörth Palace . After graduating from high school in Tegernsee in 1967, she graduated from the German School of Journalism in Munich in 1968 . She did an internship at Münchner Merkur from 1969 to 1971 . She worked as a local journalist for Seegeist , a local edition of Münchner Merkurs. She then worked for six years for the tabloid Abendzeitung in Munich and then started working for the Bavarian Radio . She became known in 1988 as the founder, editor and presenter of the first women's journal on German television ML Mona Lisa . For ZDF reports she was u. a. twice in Chechnya , reported from Croatian refugee camps on mass rape during the Bosnian war and worked as a reporter in the Gaza Strip and in India . From 1997 to 2000 Maria von Welser presented in the ZDF program Mit mir nicht! Welser's cases scandalous business practices, arbitrariness of the authorities or other abuses.

In 2001 she went to London as head of the ZDF foreign studio . On August 1, 2003, Maria von Welser moved to the top management of the North German Broadcasting Corporation , where she became director of the Hamburg State Broadcasting Corporation . The NDR announced on April 30, 2010 that she would retire on October 1, 2010. Her successor was Sabine Rossbach , who was previously the deputy director and head of the television program department at the NDR Landesfunkhaus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In the summer of 2010, von Welser reported as East Asia correspondent for ARD.

Maria von Welser has been a member of the German Committee for UNICEF since 1995 and was elected deputy chairwoman of UNICEF Germany in April 2008. In addition, she first took on a teaching position at the University of Hamburg in 2010 . She has been teaching at the University of Paderborn since 2015 . She has also been Vice President of the Übersee Club in Hamburg since 2013 .

Private

Von Welser was a youth champion in giant slalom . It is since 1994 married his third wife with a now-retired Air Force - officer and has two grown sons.

Awards and honors

• 1987: Silver badge of honor from the Safety in Skiing Foundation
• 1992: Journalist Prize from the German AIDS Foundation
• 1993: Woman of the year from the German Citizens' Association Berlin
• 1994: Elisabeth Norgall Prize from the International Women's Club of Frankfurt
• 1996: Theodor Heuss Medal
• 1996: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1996: Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Prize for the editorial team of ML Mona Lisa
• 1996: Women's advancement award for special commitment by women for women
• 1996: Journalism Prize from the City of Munich
• 2007: Elisabeth Selbert Prize
• 2015: Medal for special services to Bavaria in a United Europe
• 2019: Honorary doctorate from the University of Paderborn

Fonts

• Munich Oktoberfest . Bummel, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88781-004-X .
• Lively Upper Bavaria. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus 1990, ISBN 978-3-475-52440-0 .
• In the end, all you want is death. The mass rapes in the war in the Balkans. Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-80030-6 .
• with Thomas Walde: This is how I really defend myself. Accompanying book for the ZDF program "Not with me". Econ, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-430-19582-9 .
• Back to confidence. As life vanished before my eyes Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-404-61529-8 Blepharospasm
• with Ursula von der Leyen : We have to change our country for women. Bertelsmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-00959-8 .
• Living in a vicious circle : child poverty in Germany - and nobody looks. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2009, ISBN 978-3-579-06895-4 .
• Wisdom is feminine. Stories from very special women and men. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. 2011, ISBN 3-451-30416-3 .
• Cheer up! From the happy third life. Südwest, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-517-08778-8 .
• Where women are worthless. The global terror against girls and women. Ludwig, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-28060-1 .
• No protection anywhere - women and children on the run. Ludwig, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-28080-9 .
• I've decided that I'm just fine. Living with the tumor. Ludwig, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-28115-8 .

literature

• Maria Freifrau von Welser in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria von Welser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Maria von Welser

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} There is still something going on! In: Staufer Kurier. Vol. 39, No. 11, 2015, p. 6.
2. ↑ Not with me! on fernsehserien.de.
3. ↑ Brief portrait of Maria von Welser ( Memento from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on doppelkeks-ev.de.
4. ↑ Announcement of the change to NDR on Welt Online .
5. ↑ Maria Baufeld: People of the World: Lioness with a Mona Lisa smile. In: The world . September 30, 2010.
6. ^ NDR director Maria von Welser leaves the station. In: Hamburger Abendblatt .
7. ↑ General Assembly, Board of Directors and Advisory Board ( Memento from August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Maria von Welser :: UNICEF Germany ( Memento from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ Vita on Maria von Welser's website , accessed on May 28, 2015
10. ↑ Maria von Welser teaches at the University of Paderborn: Justice issues in the media on the website of the University of Paderborn.
11. ↑ Maria von Welser: On the jump into the third life. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 12, 2010.
12. ↑ Stopover: Star publicist Maria von Welser am Zug on Frauenverbaende.de
13. ↑ Dietmar Kemper: Listening is hard work. In: Westfalen-Blatt . , November 15, 2019.