Monika Salzer

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Monika Salzer (2013)

Monika Salzer (born February 11, 1948 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian systemic psychotherapist, Protestant theologian, pastor i. R. and author. She is also known as the founder of the civil society platform OMAS GEGEN RECHTS.

Origin and education

Monika Salzer was born into a multicultural family. The paternal grandparents were Croatians from Northern Burgenland, the maternal grandmother from Vienna, the grandfather from Berlin. Her parents worked as civil servants in Vienna.

She attended elementary school in the 10th district on Keplerplatz, then the girls' high school in Rahlgasse - the oldest educational institution for women in Vienna - up to the Matura. She then completed an apprenticeship as a medical techn. Laboratory assistant at the General Hospital in Vienna , which she completed with a diploma. She then studied psychology at the University of Vienna from 1968 to 1970 . From 1977 to 1983 she studied Protestant theology and graduated with a Magisterium .

Church work

Salzer worked from 1983 to 1985 in a research project, financed by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF), as a pastor in the Orthopedic Hospital Gersthof and wrote the final report: Clinical pastoral care for seriously ill adolescents and young adults .

Salzer completed her ecclesiastical training for spiritual office from 1985 to 1987, during which she also worked in hospital pastoral care and teaching. The ordination was concluded in 1989 . Subsequently, she worked as a hospital chaplain for 10 years in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital in Vienna . During this time, she founded professional training for volunteer pastors and the “worship service for mourners” in the Lutheran City Church , as well as the “Center for Pastoral Care and Communication”, which offered seminars on dying and grief counseling for various professional groups for over 13 years. Courses were also held for church workers on the subject of management.

Therapeutic work

Salzer attended the [Institute for Systematic Therapy IFS] in Linz and completed her training as a systemic psychotherapist from 1988 to 1992. Since then she has worked in private practice.

Organizational development

From 2002 to 2004 she completed an education in systemic organizational development at the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Further Education and obtained a Master of Advanced Studies . With Michael Bünker , then director of Evang. Religious Pedagogical Academy, and Thomas Krobath, currently Church Pedagogical University Vienna / Krems , Salzer initiated an overall church organization development process, which she accompanied from 2002 to 2004 as a project manager.

Then she headed a project in the Evangelical Diocese of Vienna , which aimed to dissolve the organizational, historically grown double structure. She also took on the diocese's public relations work until retirement.

GRANNIES AGAINST RIGHT

In 2017 she founded the civil society platform OMAS GEGEN RECHTS on Facebook, which is now represented in all Austrian federal states and has around 100 branch groups in Germany and South Tyrol, and designed the public relations work together with Susanne Scholl . An association chaired by Monika Salzer was founded in 2018.

Trivia

Salzer was a columnist for the Kronen Zeitung from 2006 to 2016 . In 2013 she took part in the eighth season of the dance show Dancing Stars and reached eighth place with her dance partner Florian Gschaider .

Salzer is married to the orthopedic surgeon and university professor Martin Salzer and has two children and three grandchildren. She lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria.

Publications

  • (as ed. with Joachim Gubba :) Between the worlds. Medicine in dialogue. Festschrift for Martin Salzer. Rebell-Verlag, Vienna 1996.
  • (with Peter Karner ): From the Christmas tree to the Ringstrasse. Evangelical Vienna. Picus-Verlag, Vienna 2008 (2nd edition 2009).
  • Grandmas against the right. Why we fight for the future of our grandchildren. Droemer-Knaur, Munich 2019.

Web links

Commons : Monika Salzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Salzer. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ About us - OMAS AGAINST RIGHT. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Monika Salzer: Our star in "Dancing Stars" . In: Kronen Zeitung, January 6, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Salzer, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian systemic psychotherapist, Protestant theologian, pastor i. R. and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna