Trautl Brandstaller

Trautl Brandstaller (often also called Traudl Brandstaller; born April 30, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist , writer and television editor.

Life

education

She put her 1957 graduation at a grammar school from, studied subsequently law at the University of Vienna and French language on affiliated Dolmetsch -Institut and graduated in 1962 with a doctorate to Dr. iur. from. She then continued her French studies at the Sorbonne in Paris . After passing the academic translator examination in 1963, from 1964 to 1966 a postgraduate study of political science at the Institute for Advanced Studies followed .

work life

Her journalistic career began in 1963 when she worked for the Kathpress news agency for about a year . In 1967 she wrote for the weekly newspaper Die Furche and in 1968 was appointed vice-president of the Working Group of Catholic Journalists and Publicists, which was a division of Catholic Action . In the same year she took over the management of the Vienna representative office of Styria Verlag , which she held until 1970. At the same time she also worked for the new FORVM and was briefly chairwoman of the association of editors and employees. In 1972 she worked as an editor for the ORF political magazine Querschnitte . In the founding years of the weekly magazine profil , she switched to its internal political editorial department and stayed there until 1974. In that year she was responsible for drafting the first report on the situation of women in Austria.

In 1975 she got a permanent job at ORF television, for which she produced her first documentaries , including the television documentary Fremde in der Heimat ( award 1976), in which Brandstaller put Austria's minority policy to the test. From 1976 to 1984 she was put in charge of the TV magazine Prisma , which thematized the emancipation of women and provided important impetus for women’s policy. a. with the TV report about Rosa Jochmann (award 1981). During this phase she was also a regular presenter of the discussion program Club 2 . Between 1986 and 1992 she was head of the ORF main department “Society, Youth and Family”. She became known with television documentaries such as Jews in Vienna Today (Award 1986) and with portraits of famous personalities (including Simone de Beauvoir , Marion Dönhoff , Václav Havel and Richard von Weizsäcker ) as part of the Ö1 series Diagonal - Radio for Contemporaries . Another of her TV works is the three-part TV series Danube Downward - A Journey into Unknown Europe.

Brandstaller, who continues to work as a freelance publicist and journalist, published numerous political and historical articles in the daily newspapers Der Standard and Die Presse , as well as in the Europäische Rundschau .

Together with media scientist Peter Diem , she represents the pro Austria citizens' initiative . This supports all efforts that are suitable to maintain and promote the Austrian identity in a united Europe and thus to contribute to the creation of an open society in the spirit of Karl Popper . At the same time, the initiative tries to force the establishment of a house of the history of the Republic of Austria .

Private life

Brandstaller has been married to the lawyer SPÖ federal politician Heinrich Keller (* 1940) since 1978 . They have a daughter (* 1981).

Awards

• 1968: Dr. Karl Renner Journalism Prize .
• 1976: Dr.-Karl-Renner-Publizistikpreis for the television documentary Fremde in der Heimat.
• 1981: Austrian Adult Education Award for the television documentary Rosa Jochmann - a piece of contemporary history.
• 1986: Austrian Adult Education TV Prize for the TV documentary Jews Today in Vienna.
• 1993: Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism .
• 2008: Axel Corti Prize for particularly valuable adult education achievements on television: "Among other things for her almost legendary commitment to feminist issues, which she represented in the 1970s with" Prisma "as the first women's magazine in German-speaking countries".
• 2011: Golden doctoral degree from the University of Vienna .

Publications

• with Michel van der Plas: These Dutch Catholics. Styria , Graz 1969.
• The plowed furrow. Europa Verlag , Zurich 1969.
• Women in Austria. Balance sheet and outlook. Zsolnay , Vienna 1981.
• as publisher: Austria 2½. Impetus for structural reform. Deuticke , Vienna 1996, ISBN 978-3-21630-207-6 .
• The Danube flows to the west. Molden, Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-85485-067-0 .
• The new power of women. Victory of emancipation or a crisis of the male elite? ( Angela Merkel , Ségolène Royal and Hillary Clinton : portraying three women at the top of power.) Styria premium, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-22213-223-0 .
• with Barbara Sternthal (both as editors): Alfred Hrdlicka . A homage. Residence , St. Pölten 2008, ISBN 978-3-70173-087-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Trautl Brandstaller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry to Dr. Trautl Brandstaller in the Austria Forum
• Curriculum vitae Brandstaller Trautl In: GLOBArt, 2005.
• Gabi Horak: "I didn't want to be a lady". Interview with Trautl Brandstaller in: an.schlag , 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Trautl Brandstaller. Entry in the personal database of the radio award for adult education and the television award for adult education, status 2008. Accessed on August 7, 2012.
2. ↑ Television award for adult education presented for the 40th time.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: News from the Arge Bildungshäuser Österreich, May 29, 2008. Retrieved on August 7, 2012.  
3. ↑ Corti Prize to Trautl Brandstaller. In: DiePresse.com , April 2, 2008. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
4. ↑ Doctoral degree for the Federal President: "In addition to Fischer, the journalist and writer Traudl Brandstaller [...] received an award." In: wien. ORF .at, 2011. Retrieved on August 7, 2012.