Raimund Loew

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Raimund Löw (born December 18, 1951 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian , journalist and publicist . Among other things, he works as a foreign correspondent for ORF and as a commentator for Falter .

Life

After attending secondary schools in Vienna and Bern , Löw began studying at the University of Lausanne and Vienna . There he devoted himself to studying modern history and political science. After he had actively participated in the student movement as a mandate of the Trotskyist group Revolutionary Marxists (GRM) in the main committee of the Austrian student body , he received his doctorate in philosophy in Vienna in 1977 . He then worked on historical research on contemporary topics and took up teaching activities at various universities.

He worked at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of the Labor Movement. In addition, he gave lectures and contributions at international congresses of historians in Linz , Mexico City and Amsterdam . This was followed by teaching at the universities of Nottingham , Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck until he returned to research. To do this, he went to Amsterdam, Zagreb , Belgrade and Ljubljana . The results of his work were published on radio, television and in various newspapers.

Since the mid-1980s, his focus has been on current journalistic reporting on ORF radio in Vienna, on radio reports from the Middle East, Latin America and various European countries. From 1989 to 1991 he worked as a correspondent for the ORF in Moscow and reported in his current reporting on the reform policy under Mikhail Gorbachev , up to the anti-Gorbachev putsch in 1991. Reports from the Baltic states, which are striving for independence, the Caucasus, Siberia and the Ukraine were his permanent areas of work.

From 1991 to 1997 Löw was the correspondent and office manager of the ORF office in Washington . There he participated in reporting from Washington, reported on the American elections in 1992 and 1996, among other things, and provided current UN reports from New York. During the wars of Yugoslavia , he reported in reports from various American states as well as from Latin America.

After returning to Vienna, he became the chief editor of the Zeit im Bild editorial team at ORF and took a stand in his reports and analyzes on current international issues. From 2003 to 2007 he was head of the Washington office at ORF, and from 2007 to the end of 2014 he was office manager at ORF in Brussels. Löw contributes comments, analyzes and reviews to the Vienna city newspaper “Der Falter” and the “Europäische Rundschau”.

From January 1, 2015 to July 1, 2017, he was head of the ORF correspondents office in Beijing . He designs the weekly podcast “Falter-Radio” for Falter, which is also broadcast on the Free Radios Freirad Innsbruck and Radio AGORA .

Raimund Löw has two sisters, is married and has two daughters.

Awards

Works

  • Otto Bauer and the Russian Revolution , Vienna 1979.
  • The Russian Revolution and the International Labor Movement , in: Theory and Practice of the Revolution, Werner W. Ernst (ed.), 1980.
  • La politique etrangere autrichienne: neutralite ou neutralisme , in: Les Langues Modernes, Paris 1981.
  • Le "miracle" Kreisky, cote cour et cote jardin , in: Profils de la Social-democratie Europeenne, Paris 1982.
  • The disintegration of the “Little International”, nationality conflicts in the labor movement of old Austria 1889-1914 , Vienna 1984.
  • Aspects of internationalism and anti-war politics in the practice of Austrian social democracy 1918-1934 , in: Newer Studies on the Workers' Movement, Vol. II, Helmut Konrad, Wolfgang Maderthaner (Ed.) 1984.
  • General strike and / or disarmament: Two poles in the peace movement of the international labor movement , in: International Conference of Historians of the Labor Movement, 19th Linz Conference, Vienna 1985.
  • Workers' Movement and Contemporary History in Pictures 1867-1938 , Photo Holdings Vienna Archives and Libraries, Vienna 1986.
  • Austromarxism. An autopsy , (together with Siegfried Mattl and Alfred Pfabigan ), Frankfurt 1986.
  • Historiography of the labor movement in France and Great Britain , Vienna 1989.
  • From Kreisky's modernization to counter-reform, 15 years of SP government , in: On the way to the state party, Peter Pelinka , Gerhard Steger (ed.) Vienna 1988.
  • The German Social Democracy in Austria and the Balkan Wars 1912/1913 , in: Internationalism in the Labor Movement 1830-1940, Frits von Holthoon, Marcel van der Linden , (Ed.) 1988.
  • "Separatists", Nationality Conflicts in Social Democracy , in: The First 100 Years, Austrian Social Democracy 1888–1988, ed. Helene Maimann 1988.
  • Revolution from above or the management of disintegration, everyone against everyone - everyone against Moscow , in: Out of the cul-de-sac, a reader on the turnaround in the east, ed. Ernest Hauer and Franz Reithmayr, Vienna 1990.
  • Clinton's America, Scenes of a Political Hunt , in: Hunt for Clinton, Warning Signal for Our Democracies, Peter Pelinka (ed.) 1998.
  • Budusche evropeiskoi identitschnosti , in: Europa v Poiskach Identitschnosti, Veronika Seyr (ed.) Moscow 2000.
  • Fantasy and Power: 1968 and after , Vienna 2006.
  • Lonely world power. The USA on the sidelines , Salzburg 2007.
  • Europe's puller - who really rules in Brussels , (together with Cerstin Gammelin ), Berlin 2014.
  • World power China , together with Kerstin Witt-Löw, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-3452-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raimund Löw new head of the ORF correspondent office in Beijing, Jörg Winter heads the Istanbul branch . APA notification of July 28, 2014, accessed on January 1, 2015.
  2. ↑ ORF: Dr. Raimund Loew . Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  3. ↑ Florian Klenk : The new FALTER podcast with Raimund Löw: Fresh from the editorial office every week. In: Falter . September 5, 2017, accessed February 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ NEW: FALTER radio on FREIRAD. In: Free Radio Innsbruck. February 28, 2018, accessed February 15, 2019 .
  5. ^ Falter radio. In: Radio Agora. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Raimund Löws website , accessed on April 4, 2015.
  7. ↑ Kreisky Prize recipients 2006. Renner Institute , accessed on February 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Austria's journalist of the year chosen . In: orf.at . December 14, 2010, accessed February 15, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Loew, Raimund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loew, Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna