Susanne Scholl (journalist)

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Susanne Scholl (2019)

Susanne Scholl (born September 19, 1949 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist , writer and doyenne of the foreign correspondent of ORF .

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Susanne Scholl, Vienna 2011.

Susanne Scholl is the daughter of an assimilated Austrian-Jewish medical family, whose tragic fate she dealt with in her novel Elsa's grandfathers . Her father came from Pötzleinsdorf , her mother from Leopoldstadt . They met at the “Austrian Center” while emigrating in London. You returned to Vienna in 1947 to help build communism in Austria.

Scholl began her education with a doctoral degree in Slavic Studies in Russia and Rome, which she completed in Rome in 1972. She began her journalistic career as an assistant to the then Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde , Manuel Lucbert . She then worked for Radio Austria International (ROI) and APA , from where Paul Lendvai brought her to the pioneering team of the new ORF Eastern European editorial team in 1986.

In 1989 Scholl went to Bonn as a correspondent for ORF, and in 1991 she moved to Moscow. From 1997 to 2000 she headed the European journal on ORF radio at the Vienna headquarters, before returning to Moscow. Her temporary arrest by the Russian authorities while reporting from Chechnya caused a stir .

The mother of a pair of twins, born in 1983, has emerged as a book author - Russian diary , Moscow kitchen talks , Elsa's grandfathers (novel), Natascha's winter (stories), Journey to Karaganda (novel), Daughters of War - Survival in Chechnya , Red as Love (poems ), Russia with and without a soul , Russian winter trip (poems), Alone at home , The Queen of Sheba (story), Waking Dream (novel).

The platform "Omas gegen rechts" was founded in 2017 by Monika Salzer and her.

The author Emil Scholl was her grandfather.

Publications

  • Russian diary
  • Moscow kitchen talks
  • Elsa's grandfathers (novel),
  • Natascha's winter (short stories)
  • Journey to Karaganda (Roman)
  • Daughters of War - Survival in Chechnya
  • Red like love (poems)
  • Russia with and without a soul
  • Russian winter trip (poems)
  • Home alone
  • The Queen of Sheba (story)
  • Emma is silent. Residenz Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7017-1623-4 .
  • Waiting for Gianni (novel). Residenzverlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7017-1667-8 .
  • Wachtraum (novel), Residenz Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7017-1681-4 .
  • The ladies of the house , Residenz Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7017-1719-4 .

Awards

Scholl was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art and numerous prizes, such as the Axel Corti Prize of Austrian National Education 2007 and the Concordia Prize of the Concordia Press Club . In 2009 she was named Journalist of the Year in the Foreign Policy category . In 2012 she received the Buchliebling Lifetime Award. In November 2012 she received the Golden Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna .

Web links

Commons : Susanne Scholl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The sausage roll at Yom Kippur. Interview by Danielle Spera with Susanne Scholl. In: nu . No. 36, 2/2009, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Derstandard.at: Head of the day: Susanne Scholl: Grandma, who speaks radically against racism and agitation. Retrieved on January 17, 2020
  3. ↑ derStandard.at - Herbert Lackner is the "Journalist of the Year" . APA notification dated December 15, 2009, accessed March 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ Buchliebling Lifetime Award to Susanne Scholl. on ORF from September 26, 2012, accessed on October 6, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Scholl, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna