2024-01-02 16:57:45
The Axel Corti Prize winner has, among other things, campaigned for feminist issues – ORF boss Weißmann: “Formative personality”.
The Viennese journalist and author Trautl Brandstaller is dead. She died on New Year’s Day at the age of 84, it was announced on Tuesday. “With her, Austria is losing one of the most renowned journalists of the Second Republic,” said long-time ORF information director Johannes Kunz in an obituary. Over the course of her career, Brandstaller worked for Styria Verlag, “profil” and, above all, ORF.
Brandstaller, who was born in Vienna on April 30, 1939, started her journalistic career at the Kathpress news agency before taking over the management of Styria Verlag in Vienna following a stint at the weekly newspaper “Die Furche”. After initially working for the ORF, the journalist came to “profil” before the ORF became her professional home in 1975. Here she produced numerous documentaries and moderated programs such as “Prisma” and “Club 2”. “With Trautl Brandstaller, the ORF is losing an influential personality and one of the first female journalists in management positions that were still largely dominated by men,” said ORF boss Roland Weißmann.
Brandstaller has also published several books, including “Insights. Prospects – The Salzkammergut between the factual and the anecdotal” at the end of last year on the occasion of the European Capital of Culture 2024. She was awarded the Axel Corti Prize in 2008 for her commitment to feminist issues, but also the Dr. She was awarded the Karl Renner Journalism Prize (1968) and the Austrian Adult Education Television Prize (1981 and 1986).
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