Sonja Puntscher Riekmann

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Puntscher Riekmann in 2016

Sonja Puntscher Riekmann (born September 1, 1954 in Bozen ) is an Austrian political scientist and former politician ( Greens ). Puntscher Riekmann was a member of the Austrian National Council in 1994 and Vice Rector of the University of Salzburg from 2003 to 2011 . Sonja Puntscher Riekmann has been Vice President of the European Forum Alpbach since March 20, 2012 .

education

After primary school, Puntscher Riekmann attended grammar school in Bozen and Milan and graduated from high school in 1973. Between 1973 and 1980 she studied German, Romance studies and philosophy at the University of Vienna and received her doctorate in 1980. Between 1982 and 1984 she completed a post-graduate degree in political science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.

job

She then worked as a freelance social scientist and translator from 1984 to 1987 and was active as a research fellow at various social science institutes in Vienna from 1984 to 1994 and as a lecturer at the universities of Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg.

Between 1991 and 1993, Puntscher Riekmann was a research fellow at the European Center for Coordination and Research in Social Sciences and from 1993 a research fellow at the European Center for Welfare Policy and Social Research. From 1995 to 1998, Puntscher Riekmann was a research assistant and deputy head of the Research Center for Socio-Economics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where she qualified as a professor at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Innsbruck in 1997.

Puntscher Riekmann has been Director of the Research Center for Institutional Change and European Integration (IWE) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1998 and was visiting professor at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 2000 to 2001. Since 2002 she has been professor for political theory and the history of ideas taking into account European politics at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Salzburg; in October 2003 she was promoted to Vice Rector for International Relations, Public Relations and Internal Communication at the University of Salzburg.

politics

From 1987 to 1989 she was an academic advisor to the Green Club in Parliament and then from 1989 to 1990 program coordinator of the Green Party. In this function, she was invited to an ORF press hour in September 1990 , where she represented the dire demand for an increase in the mineral oil tax by ATS 14.00 . In fact, this requirement was a cost calculation of Christoph canon preceded after the car - traffic only a fraction of its cost to the economy wearing. A part of these costs should be covered by the tax increase , with simultaneous reimbursement by the tax office (ÖS 12,000, - / Austrian). The concept also included the expansion of public transport and compensation payments for commuters .

“The problem was a rhetorical awkwardness on my part, because when the journalist asked whether it was right for the Greens to charge 24 ATS for a liter of petrol , I first said a succinct 'yes' and only then explained everything else. And of course that was fatal, because there was only that 'yes' left in the reporting. "

- Sonja Puntscher Riekmann

Puntscher Riekmann was a member of the federal executive committee of the Green Alternative Party and on May 20, 1994, replaced Manfred Srb in the National Council. After the National Council election in October 1994 , she left the National Council on November 6, 1994.

Publications

  • Mozart, a bourgeois artist. Studies on the libretti "Le nozze di Figaro", "Don Giovanni" and "Così fan tutte". Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1982, ISBN 3-205-06038-5
  • with Ágnes Heller (ed.): Biopolitics. The Politics of the Body, Race and Nature. Avebury, 1996, ISBN 1-85972-127-3
  • Political theory and practice of European integration and disintegration scenarios. In: Sylvia Pintarits: Power, Democracy and Regions in Europe. Analyzes and scenarios of integration and disintegration. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-89518-087-4
  • The temporary reorganization of Europe. The dispositive of integration. Springer, Vienna / New York 1998, ISBN 3-211-83183-5
  • with Heinrich Neisser (ed.): Europeanization of Austrian politics. Consequences of EU membership. wuv, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85114-680-8
  • with Monika Mokre & Michael Latzer (eds.): The state of Europe. Transformations of statehood from a European perspective. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2004, ISBN 3-593-37632-6
  • with Bedanna Bapuly & Peter Slominski (eds.): Europeanization through law. Between aspiration and reality. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 3-8329-1336-X
  • with Wolfgang Wessels (Ed.): The making of a European constitution. Dynamics and limits of the convention experience. VS, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14970-7
  • with Günter Herzig & Christian Dirninger (eds.): Europa res publica. European Convention and Constitution as a rapprochement towards a European republic? Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-205-77461-2
  • with Michael G. Faure & Helmut Koziol : United Europe - unified law? The standardization of law from a political science, legal economic and private law perspective. Verlag der ÖAW, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7001-6047-2

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ European Forum Alpbach: The association
  2. ^ History . In: Green News Oberpullendorf. 06/2012, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Puntscher Riekmann, Sonja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Greens), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano