Viola Falkenberg

Viola Falkenberg (* 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist , author and lecturer .

Life

Falkenberg grew up in Hamburg . She volunteered at the Harburg advertisements and news in Hamburg and completed the "Journalist advanced training course" at the Free University of Berlin .

As a freelance journalist , she worked with a focus on economic and social policy for newspapers (from the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt to the daily newspaper ), specialist magazines (from “Der Kassenarzt” to VDI nachrichten ) and public radio editors (including Bayerischer Rundfunk , Norddeutscher Rundfunk , RIAS Berlin , Südwestfunk ) and as an editor at the specialist information service “Work & Ecology” in Frankfurt.

Falkenberg works nationwide as a lecturer for press work .

In 2004 she founded the Viola Falkenberg Verlag in Bremen, which publishes books on the subject of public relations , and in 2008 the "Academy for Press Work - Pressada", in which she offers writing and media training and training in press work. In 2016 she put infopoint-bremen.de online with multilingual media offers for refugees. In the same year she was nominated for the diversity idea of ​​the year with the idea of ​​"Bremer Medienscout".

Memberships

• Deputy Chairwoman of the Broadcasting Council of Radio Bremen 2020–2021
• Chair of the Radio Committee 2004–2008
• Member of the Broadcasting Council 2000–2009, 2018–2021
• German Society for Media and Communication Studies (DGPuK)

Publications (selection)

• Viola Falkenberg: The small AZ of press work. Manual and lexicon of the 100 most important technical terms with work steps and mnemonics , Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-937822-45-7
• Viola Falkenberg: Write press releases. In 10 steps to a professional press text , FAZ Institute Frankfurt, 7th completely revised and updated edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-95601-021-7
• Viola Falkenberg: In the jungle of laws. Press and public relations guidelines , Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-937822-59-3 .
• Viola Falkenberg: Mastering Interviews , FAZ Institute, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-927282-80-4 (Korean edition: 2001)
• Viola Falkenberg: Evaluation of the quality of press work, http://www.akademie-pressektiven.de/images/evaluation_der_qualitaet_von_pressarbeit.pdf from September 2001.
• Viola Falkenberg: Letters, Faxes, E-Mails , Haufe, 2003 (Finnish edition: 2005, Russian edition: 2006)

Web links

• Literature by and about Viola Falkenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Viola Falkenberg Verlag
• Website of the Academy for Press Relations - Pressada
• infopoint-bremen.de with media offers for refugees

Individual evidence

1. ^ Viola Falkenberg elected deputy chairwoman - Broadcasting Council. Accessed July 1, 2020 (German).