Pia Maria Plechl

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Pia Maria Plechl (born January 24, 1933 in Baden , Lower Austria ; † December 18, 1995 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist and author . Her preferences were the church , art and culture . The Christian intellectual had her most successful journalistic period from around 1980 to 1995.

Life

Pia Maria Plechl was a close relative (daughter?) Of the doctor Bertholda Plechl-Exner (1902–1969), who ran a children's hospital in the state of Lower Austria in Speising in the 13th district of Vienna from 1949, which later moved to Mödling . It was equipped by European Aid in Gothenburg and therefore called the Gothenburg House; it was the most modern children's hospital in Austria at the time. In 2013, Professor Bertholda Plechl was described as the legendary pioneer of the children's department in a text about today's Orthopedic Spital Speising .

Pia Maria Plechl attended the Wenzgasse grammar school in Vienna's 13th district from 1943 to 1951, where she graduated with honors. Plechl completed her journalism studies at the University of Vienna with a dissertation from Hitler's “Mein Kampf” and Stalin's “Questions of Leninism” .

From 1955 to 1958 she worked as a journalist for the Neue Österreich Tageszeitung , a newspaper of the conservative ruling party ÖVP . In 1958, Plechl moved to the film, museums and press department of the Ministry of Education headed by Heinrich Drimmel (ÖVP) for three years . In 1961, at the age of 28, she became editor of the bourgeois daily newspaper Die Presse . From 1982 she worked alongside editor-in-chief Thomas Chorherr , who became editor of the paper in March 1995, as deputy editor-in-chief.

In addition to her journalistic work, she wrote repeatedly well-selling non-fiction books.

From 1992 onwards, after former Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger, she was President of the Austrian Society of the Holy Land, which runs the Austrian Hospice for the Holy Family in Jerusalem .

One week before Christmas 1995, Pia Maria Plechl committed suicide at the age of 62. She died ... in great loneliness , according to the obituary in the magazine of the hospice society. She was buried on January 9, 1996 in the Hietzingen cemetery . Like Bertholda Plechl-Exner, Pia's father Dr. Otto Plechl ( registered in Lehmann in 1942 : Vienna 13., Lainzer Straße 161; † 1967, 56 years old) was buried in the same grave as Pia Maria.

Awards

Publications

literature

  • Ingeborg Schödl: God's strong daughters. 12 women in today's church , Verlag St. Gabriel, Mödling 1998, ISBN 3-85264-566-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Orthopädisches Spital Speising on the website of the Vienna City Administration, accessed November 14, 2013
  2. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association
  3. ↑ Hospice Notes No. 18, May 1996, p. 4 (PDF; 2.5 MB)
  4. ↑ Search for grave sites at www.friedhoefewien.at
  5. ↑ a b magwien.gv.at - Archive report of the town hall correspondence: Hietzing: New way names remember authors , May 5, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Plechl, Pia Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1995
Place of death Vienna