Regina Strassegger

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Regina Strassegger (* 1955 ) is an Austrian journalist for Austrian Broadcasting Corporation .

Life

After completing his undergraduate studies in contemporary history at the University of Graz , Strassegger took a research grant to southern Africa in 1980. This was followed by three years of development project work in Namibia, including post-graduate studies in Edinburgh in 1983/84. After being refused entry by the South African apartheid regime in 1985, she started her dissertation “The History of Ovambo Migrant Workers During the German Colonial Era” at the universities of Graz and Joensuu in Finland.

Between 1989 and 2013 Regina Strassegger worked as a documentary filmmaker for Austrian Broadcasting, and in the meantime as an election observer for the UN , OSCE and as a consultant for the Austrian Office for Foreign Affairs and the Institute for International Cooperation / Horizon 3000 in Cambodia, Namibia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Africa , Mozambique and Montenegro. From 2001 to 2003 she was in charge of the project for the 2003 Cultural Capital Graz Inge Morath Grenz.Räume.

Since January 2014 she has been working as a freelance journalist, author and project developer.

Documentaries (selection)

  • Chaos in the Caucasus, Georgia, 1992;
  • War or Peace in the Khmer Country, Cambodia, 1993;
  • Peace on Call, Macedonia, 1993;
  • “We need a good order here”, Ukraine, 1993;
  • No work in Europe, Austria, Germany, Sweden, 1994;
  • The General and His Brother, South Africa, 1994;
  • “Enough we go”, Austria, Sweden, Russia, 1995;
  • “I am a Herero-German”, Namibia, 1995;
  • Maforga. The Barons' Farm, Mozambique, Germany, 1995;
  • Shadows in Paradise, Dominican Republic, Austria, 1996;
  • Long ways, Nepal, 1996;
  • Illusionless, Germany East, 1996;
  • “Sad but true”, Austria, 1997;
  • Simply heavenly, Austria, France, 1997;
  • The Unyielding, Austria, 1998;
  • On the Wild Tracks, Oman, 1998;
  • “Go Africa, go”, South Africa, Mozambique, 1998;
  • “Who sows violence ...”, Macedonia, Kosovo, 1999;
  • Between Christos and Allah, Russia, 2000;
  • Decision in Montenegro, Montenegro, 2000;
  • “The synagogue was my home”, Austria, Israel, USA, 2000; Passion Balkans, Bosnia, Macedonia, 2001;
  • Inge Morath - Grenz.Räume, USA, Slovenia, Austria, 2002;
  • Bishop Against Bombs, USA, Iraq, 2003;
  • Nelson Mandela. Freedom fighter, icon, reconciler, between vision and reality, South Africa, 2004/2008;
  • A Pope separates the ghosts, Poland, Italy, Austria, Cuba, Israel / Palestine, 2005;
  • LICHTBLICKE, portraits of people who converted their fate - Austria, USA, Egypt, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, 2005;
  • “Without my pictures I would be dead”, Finland, Hungary, Italy, 2007;
  • “God with Us”, Georgia, Russia, 2008;
  • Carl Djerassi. Formulas of Life, USA, Austria, 2008;
  • West-Eastern Divan Stories, Austria, Turkey, Egypt, 2009;
  • For God's sake, South Africa, 2009;
  • Katharsis Now, Greece 2010;
  • Grenz.Welten, Austria, Israel / Palestine, 2011;
  • Prayers for Freedom, Egypt, 2011;
  • Help in the Ring of Fire, Indonesia, 2012;
  • Mali desert (s) zone, 2013;
  • The Betrayed Prayers, Egypt, 2013;
  • Nelson Mandela. A life for freedom. Obituary, 2013

Publications

  • World-class notes. In: Wolfgang Mantl (ed.), Lebenszeugnisse, Böhlau, 2015.
  • Moments in the flow of time. In: Karl Acham (ed.), Art and Humanities in Graz, Böhlau, 2009;
  • Beyond 1001 nights. In the footsteps of Baron von Hammer Purgstall. In: Gerfried Sperl, Michael Steiner (eds.), WAS. The East is Coming, Leykam, 2006;
  • Inge Morath. Last trip, Prestel Munich, London, Berlin, 2002 (German / English);
  • The history of the Ovambo migrant workers in the diamond fields of German South West Africa, In: Basler Afrika Bibliographie, 1990;
  • The Pope as chosen. In: Michael Fleischhacker, Thomas Götz (eds.), Der Wasserträger Gottes, Small Edition, 1998;

Awards

  • Journalist award in the field of development cooperation of the state of Styria, recognition award for the journalist team of the "Courage" (1991)
  • Prize of the State of Styria for special journalistic achievements, 1992
  • Recognition award in the documentation category of the Kathmandu Film Festival, 1999
  • Prize of the State of Styria for reporting from the "Third World", 2002
  • Award of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York for Inge Morath. Last Journey, 2003;
  • Prelate Leopold Hungarian Journalist Award , 2004
  • Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Styria , 2005;
  • European CIVIS Media Prize for Integration, “Best of Three” final, 2008
  • Large Josef Krainer Prize , 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.europa.steiermark.at/cms/ziel/3083838/DE/
  2. ↑ http://www.kommunikation.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/10010414/374565/
  3. ^ "Prälat-Leopold-Ungar-Medienpreis" announced for the second time. In: derStandard.at. September 30, 2005, accessed December 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7899/1178841
  5. ↑ http://www.verwaltung.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/12232107/116057085/_1
  6. ↑ http://www.kleinezeitung.at/s/steiermark/graz/4686689/Grosser-JosefKrainerPreis_Gregor-Seberg-und-Regina-Strassegger
personal data
SURNAME Strassegger, Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955