Waltraud Langer

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Waltraud Langer (* 1961 ) is an Austrian journalist , former television presenter and editor-in-chief of ORF-TV Magazine.

Life

After graduating from high school in Salzburg, she studied economics at the University of Vienna , which she completed with the academic degree Magister . She improved her language skills in English and French through stays abroad and subsequently completed internships with the Salzburger Nachrichten and the magazine profil . After completing a one-year university course in business journalism, she first worked for ORF radio in domestic politics and in the business department. Between 1992 and 1994 she was ORF foreign correspondent in Brussels during the EU accession negotiations. After her return, Waltraud Langer became editor of the TV business editorial team, producing articles for ZIB and the business magazine Euro Austria .

In 2000, Langer was the moderator and designer of the stock exchange news in the "ZIB" at 1:00 pm and a short time later rose to head of the business department of the "ZIB 1". A year later she took over this position for all issues of the "ZIB". From 2003 she moderated the press hour as one of several moderators , and from 2005 to 2007 the discussion program Offen Said . From 2007 to 2010 she was the head of information at ORF1 and deputy ZiB editor-in-chief. Since 2010 she has been editor-in-chief of the main department for magazines and service programs.

In addition to her work at ORF, Langer published several publications, including the 1998 René Marcic Prize for the non-fiction book “Vom Schilling zum Euro” . She was also awarded the Horst Knapp Prize and was “Business Journalist of the Year 2006”.

Waltraud Langer and Franz Hlavac introduced the stock exchange program in the ZiB at 1 p.m. in 2000 and was the first presenter of the program. As ORF1 info boss, she started the ZiB20 in ORF1 in 2007. Your ORF1 format, in which first-time voters discussed with top politicians, existed before the 2008 National Council election (“Wahl´08 - your question”) and before the 2010 federal presidential election (“Wahl´10 - my question”). The first broadcast in which the audience could be part of a discussion program from home via a facewall ran as “contra - der talk” in 2011 on ORF1 and was developed by Langer together with Angelika Simma. Langer's idea of ​​accompanying young people over a longer period of time was implemented by Sabina Zwitter in "Heimat Fremde Heimat" and by Christoph Feurstein in the program "Thema" under the title "Schule fürs Leben - das Experiment" 2014. The series in "Topic" was u. a. Awarded the Cannes Corporate Media and TV Awards, and a sequel in 2019.

From 2009 to 2012, Langer held the course “Dealing with the Media in Crisis” at the Juridicum in Vienna, and at ORF she gave several interview seminars as part of the Human Resources department. Langer is a regular assessor at ORF hearings and has been a mentor on several occasions as part of the ORF mentor program. From 1996 to 1998 she was President of the Europa Journalisten Österreich.

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SURNAME Langer, Waltraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian TV presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna