Pia Maria Plechl
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
- 1974 State Prize for Science Journalism
- 1993 Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna
- 1994 Bene Merito medal from the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Pia-Maria-Plechl-Weg in Vienna- Hietzing
Publications
- A good country. Sunday trips through Inner Austria. Hunna, Vienna 1966.
- with Klaus Brantl: Festive Vienna. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1966.
- Cross and asculapius. Dr. med. Anna Dengel and the Medical Mission Sisters. Herold, Vienna Munich 1967.
- Diplomatic Academy Vienna . Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Ed.), Vienna 1968.
- The Marchfeld . Herold, Vienna 1969.
- "In honor of God, a father ours pett". Image strength, pillars of light and other monuments of popular piety in Lower Austria . Herold, Vienna Munich 1971.
- Land of Mountains. The most beautiful mountain passes and high roads in Austria. Molden, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-217-00493-0 .
- Baden near Vienna . Herold, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7008-0124-6 .
- "To find Austria ..." On the trail of history. Styria, Graz Vienna Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-222-10969-9 .
- Dream roads through Austria. 5th edition, Molden, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-217-00837-5 .
- Pilgrimage sites in Lower Austria. Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85326-445-X .
- Dream castles. The palaces and castles of Austria. 2nd edition, Molden, Vienna Innsbruck 1986, ISBN 3-206-00008-4 .
- Pilgrimage in Austria. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-8000-3265-1 .
- with Hella Planter: Impressions from Vienna. Pinguin-Verlag, Innsbruck 1991, ISBN 3-7016-2351-1 .
- with Hella Planter: Austria. Landscape, art and culture. Pinguin-Verlag, Innsbruck 1993, ISBN 3-7016-2411-9 .
- Lower Austria. 2nd edition, Pinguin-Verlag, Innsbruck 1999, ISBN 3-7016-2432-1 .
- With a mop of hair and box cord. Roberto de Nobili . Verlag St. Gabriel, Mödling 1977, ISBN 3-85264-108-X , ISBN 3-87787-096-1 .
- The nun with the stethoscope. Anna Dengel . Verlag St. Gabriel, Mödling 1981, ISBN 3-87787-145-3 , ISBN 3-85264-173-8 .
- Paul. Verlag St. Gabriel, Mödling, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-85264-256-6 .
- The doctor in the habit. Anna Dengel . St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-74620-207-8 .
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
- Entry on Pia Maria Plechl in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- ORF audio portrait Pia Maria Plechl
Individual evidence
- ^ Orthopädisches Spital Speising on the website of the Vienna City Administration, accessed November 14, 2013
- ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association
- ↑ Hospice Notes No. 18, May 1996, p. 4 (PDF; 2.5 MB)
- ↑ Search for grave sites at www.friedhoefewien.at
- ↑ a b magwien.gv.at - Archive report of the town hall correspondence: Hietzing: New way names remember authors , May 5, 2003
personal data | |
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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 |