Sibylle Hamann
Sibylle Hamann (born August 14, 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician ( Die Grünen ) and former journalist . She has been a member of the Austrian National Council since October 23, 2019 .
Life
She grew up in Vienna, where she also completed her school education. Her parents are the historian Günther Hamann (1924–1994) and his wife Brigitte Hamann (1940–2016), well-known author and historian. In 1984 she began studying political science with a combination of history , ethnology , and Russian at the University of Vienna and the Free University of Berlin , which she completed in 1989 with a research stay at Beida University in Beijing with a thesis on women's work and economic reforms in the PRC .
She then started working as a journalist for the daily newspaper Kurier , where from 1990 to 1994 she reported on the upheavals in the Soviet Union, the Caucasus and the Middle East, the end of apartheid in South Africa and the Civil War in Rwanda. In 1995 she switched to the news magazine Profil as editor , where she reported background reports on Africa, in particular the civil wars in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire ). From 1999 to 2001 she was a freelance correspondent in New York , from where she made extensive trips through the USA and the countries of the Caribbean and reported on them. In 2001 she returned to Profile in Vienna and reported for the magazine on the US war in Afghanistan against the Taliban. In 2004 she went back to New York as a correspondent for a year. Since 2006 she has been living in Vienna again and as a freelance journalist writes a regular column in the bourgeois-liberal daily newspaper Die Presse , for the Vienna weekly newspaper Falter , as well as guest articles for the German feminist magazine Emma and for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . In 2006/07 she worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Vienna, as holder of the Theodor Herzl lectureship, then as a lecturer at the journalism course at FHWien . She is known to the television audience primarily as a studio guest on ORF discussion programs . In the Burgtheater she acted as a moderator in the project Die letzte Zeugen by Doron Rabinovici and Matthias Hartmann , which was seen from 2013 to 2015.
Hamann lives in Vienna and is the mother of two children.
In July 2019, she announced that she wanted to run for the Green Party in the 2019 National Council election.
Awards
- 2007 media lioness
- 2014 Kurt Vorhofer Prize
- 2016 Women's Ring Prize
- 2016 media lioness in gold
- 2016 Prälat-Leopold-Ungar-Journalist-Award in the category print
Publications (selection)
- Dilettantes out and about, journalism all over the world. Edited by Wolfgang R. Langenbucher , Picus, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85452-620-9 .
- with Eva Linsinger : White Book Women / Black Book Men . Why we need a new gender contract. Deuticke in Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-552-06073-9 .
- Clean services, a report . Residence, St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7017-3258-6 .
- Am i too impatient? Four years with my Syrian friend Fatima. Falter Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3854396383 .
- Adelheid Popp : youth of a worker. Edited by Sibylle Hamann. With essays by SH and Katharina Prager. Vienna: Picus 2019, ISBN 978-3-7117-2087-0
Web links
- Sibylle Hamann's website
- Literature by and about Sibylle Hamann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sibylle Hamann on the website of the Austrian Parliament
- Sibylle Hamann on www.meineabektiven.at
Individual evidence
- ^ Sibylle Hamann: Women's work and economic reforms in the PR China . 1978-1988. Vienna 1989 ( Austrian Library Association - Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 193 pages).
- ^ Theodor Herzl lectureship for the poetics of journalism. Institute for Journalism at the University of Vienna,
- ^ Sibylle Hamann. perlentaucher.de, accessed on May 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Sibylle Hamann and Alma Zadic want to run for Greens. In: The Standard. July 2, 2019, accessed July 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Journalist Awards: Media Lion - Winner . Retrieved September 9, 2015.
- ↑ Women's Ring Prize for Sibylle Hamann, Gabriella Hauch and Ulli Weish . Frauenring.at, April 6, 2016; Retrieved June 26, 2016.
- ↑ Media lion in gold to Sibylle Hamann . derStandard.at, November 8, 2016; Retrieved November 9, 2016.
- ^ Prelate Hungarian Awards: Sibylle Hamann honored again . derStandard.at, November 10, 2016; accessed on November 10, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hamann, Sibylle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian journalist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |