Mary Kreutzer

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Mary Kreutzer (* 1970 in Wels ) is an Austrian political scientist and journalist specializing in women's rights, development policy and displacement.

Life

Mary Kreutzer grew up in Guatemala and studied political science, history and interpreting in Vienna . She is editor of the magazine of the “ Austrian League for Human Rights ” (liga) and co-founder and chairwoman of the organization “League for Emancipatory Development Cooperation ” (LeEZA, pronounced Lisa ). This Austrian NGO has been supporting u. a. several women's centers in Iraq, a free radio station and a campaign against female genital cutting . In Turkey, LeEZA supports a women's center for internally displaced persons in Diyarbakir and a women's shelter in Dersim / Tunceli. LeEZA has been supporting a women's center in Syria (Rojava, Amude) since 2013, but is also active in Europe for the rights of asylum seekers and in information work about Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Sudan and other countries in the region.

In 2008 she produced as part of the "Society for Critical Research on Antisemitism " a documentary film about the life of the Austrian journalist Karl Pfeifer , who as a child from the Nazis fled to Palestine and fought in Israel's War of Independence.

Kreutzer was an editor and radio producer for the multimedia project Context XXI for several years and supports the NGO platform “Export Credit Agencies-Watch” (ECA Watch), an international NGO that campaigns against the construction of the Ilısu Dam in eastern Turkey. She supports the solidarity list against deportation . and is active on the board of the Austrian Society for Kurdology / European Center for Kurdish Studies as well as on the advisory board of the "Network for Social Cohesion. Prevention, Deradicalization and Democracy".

Others

On March 9, 2005, a group of members of the Trotskyist group Arbeiterstandpunkt disrupted an event of the Stop-the-Bomb campaign in the Viennese cultural center Café 7stern. Mary Kreutzer was physically attacked and injured as a visitor by Michael Pröbsting, one of the group's spokesmen at the time. In March of the following year, he was convicted of assault.

Fonts

Thesis
  • Marianne Kreutzer: The NSDAP AO in Latin America using the example of the national group of the NSDAP in Guatemala . University of Vienna, 2003.
Monographs
  • Living in freedom was just a dream for a long time: Courageous women talk about their escape from violence and modern slavery. with Alicia Allgäuer. Lea Ackermann , 2010, ISBN 978-3-466-30878-1 .
  • TogetherReden - Debates about integration in Austrian municipalities. with Alicia Allgäuer and Thomas Schmidinger. 2010, ISBN 978-3-902282-32-3 .
  • Goods woman. On the trail of modern slavery from Africa to Europe. with Corinna Milborn . 2008, ISBN 978-3-902404-57-2 .
  • Iraq. From the republic of fear to bourgeois democracy? with Thomas Schmidinger. 2004, ISBN 3-924627-85-1 .
  • Defeats of Peace: Talks and Encounters in Guatemala and El Salvador. with Thomas Schmidinger. 2002, ISBN 3-9808498-0-5 .
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Awards

  • 2002: Eduard Ploier Radio Prize, Education and Science category
  • 2008: Concordia Prize for Human Rights
  • 2009: European Journalist Award for Excellence in Journalism
  • 2009: Nomination for the best science book 2009
  • 2010: European Journalist Award for Excellence in Journalism
  • 2013: Elfriede Grünberg Prize of the Wels Initiative against Fascism

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian League for Human Rights
  2. ↑ The only women's shelters in the Middle East ( Memento from December 30, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Love in Times of War Article in Falter issue 43, 2014
  4. ^ Between all chairs - life paths of the journalist Karl Pfeifer ( Memento from May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) website of the film
  5. ↑ ECA Watch Austria
  6. ↑ counter-deportation
  7. ↑ Website of the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Kurdology ( Memento from September 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ [1]
  9. ^ Karl Pfeifer , Mag. Michael Pröbsting convicted with final and absolute judgment, HaGalil, August 8, 2006, accessed on October 7, 2014
  10. ↑ http://www.vhs.or.at/213
  11. ^ Concordia prizes for Vospernik, Kreutzer and Milborn. In: derStandard.at. March 10, 2009, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  12. ↑ http://www.weltbevoelkerung.de/presse/europaeischer_sonderpreis.shtml
  13. ↑ http://www.woche-des-wissens.at/index.php?content=3a
personal data
SURNAME Kreutzer, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreutzer, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH catfish