Peter Schöber

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Peter Schöber (born December 2, 1970 in Steyr , Upper Austria ) heads the program for the television station ORF III of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and jointly manages the station with Eva Schindlauer.

Life

Peter Schöber made his first journalistic experiences at the end of the 1980s at ORF Radio Oberösterreich .

He held a management position at the international Ars Electronica Festival and was a member of the founding team of the Ars Electronica Center (AEC) in the 1990s . From 1998, Peter Schöber was a senior editor in the ORF Information Directorate. Over the years, he was responsible for managing Europe-wide media projects at the interface between journalism and communication technology. As a graduate of the CNN International Professional Program , he initiated numerous program innovations in the areas of TV news, magazine, reportage and documentation.

From 2007 to 2009 Schöber was head of the central television program services department of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, where he was responsible for various areas such as program promotion, program planning, broadcast management and subtitling. Schöber has been the managing director of the TV broadcaster TW1 since 2010, and he was in charge of its conversion and approval process to become the current culture and information channel , ORF III.

Peter Schöber is married and has two sons.

Awards

On July 9, 2012, Schöber was awarded the ÖVP's Leopold Kunschak Press Prize for his initiative relating to the start of ORF III . In addition, Federal President Heinz Fischer awarded him the gold medal on the red ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria (lifesaving medal) on November 5, 2014 for selflessly saving a human life . On January 14, 2014, Schöber pulled a tired young man off the rails at the Salzburg main station at the last second in front of an approaching train.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Hans Peter Trost and Peter Schöber , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, October 25, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Nikolaus Immanuel Köhler: When culture becomes a broadcast. Interview with Peter Schöber. Art Quarterly, pp. 26–31 , accessed March 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Leopold Kunschak Prizes 2012 , Kleine Zeitung from June 25, 2012, accessed on October 18, 2012
  4. ↑ ORF III managing director Peter Schöber awarded the Republic's gold medal of merit. In: ots.at. Retrieved March 14, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schöber, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian managing director of the TV channel ORF III
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr , Upper Austria