Petra Thorbrietz

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Petra Thorbrietz (* 1954 in Munich ) is a German journalist and author .

Live and act

Petra Thorbrietz studied communication science , political science , sociology and history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1980 she obtained her master's degree and an editor's degree from the German School of Journalism . From 1980 to 1983 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Communication Science at the University of Munich, where she worked on networked thinking in journalism in 1984 . Journalistic communication deficits using the example of ecology and environmental protection for Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate .

She then worked as a freelance journalist for radio and television. Among other things, she was editor of the magazines “ natur ” and “ Wochenpost ” as well as director and screenwriter for ORF and the Hungarian TV station MTV . From 1993 she was head of department and from 1996 reporter at the magazine Die Woche , to whose founding editorial team she was part.

Petra Thorbrietz was a lecturer at the universities of Vienna , Leipzig and Graz . She also worked as an author for the magazines Geo , Focus-Schule and Chrismon as well as the Greenpeace magazine . For “Focus online” she wrote the column Petra Thorbrietz 'Last Questions .

In 2004 her husband János Pásztory died of cancer. One year later she ended her professional career as deputy editor-in-chief of the Focus-Schule magazine. For two years she researched technical, social and religious problems in connection with death and spoke to doctors, relatives and theologians about this topic. This resulted in her book Life to the End. Saying goodbye and dying with dignity .

Petra Thorbrietz lives in Munich.

Awards

  • Scholarship from the Karl Gerold Foundation of the Frankfurter Rundschau
  • 1991: Austrian State Prize for Science and Research as director of the film trilogy Magic of the Drops
  • 1996: Prize of the Schader Foundation for the editorial concept of a series of articles on the subject of traffic in the magazine "Die Woche"
  • 2004: Ludwig Demling Media Prize for gut health
  • 2006: Media Prize of the Call Sign Health Foundation
  • 2006: Lung Cancer Journalism Award

Fonts

  • Networked thinking in journalism. Dissertation. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1986, ISBN 3-484-34021-5 .
  • with Imme Sanwald: Our soil - our life. Moewig, Rastatt 1988, ISBN 3-8118-3332-4 .
  • with Ingrid Reinecke: lies, lobbies, food. Kunstmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88897-180-2 .
  • Course book healthy child nutrition. Zabert Sandmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-89883-035-7 .
  • Health from the gut. Discover, protect and heal the source of wellbeing. Zabert Sandmann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89883-050-0 .
  • Identity in the digital age. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-09479-1 .
  • Concentration. How parents can support their child. dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34445-6 .
  • Life to the end. Saying goodbye and dying with dignity. 3. Edition. Zabert Sandmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89883-186-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 112 days , Focus online from September 10, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Thorbrietz, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich