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Susanne Scholl (born 19 September 1949) is an Austrian journalist, writer and doyenne of the foreign correspondents of the ORF.
Susanne Scholl | |
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| Susanne Scholl in 2019 | |
| Born | 19 September 1949 Vienna, Austria |
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Susanne Scholl (born 19 September 1949) is an Austrian journalist, writer and doyenne of the foreign correspondents of the ORF.
Born in Vienna, 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 had met at the "Austrian Center" in emigration in London, and returned to Vienna in 1947 to help build communism in Austria. [1]
Scholl embarked on her educational path with doctoral studies in Slavic Studies in Russia and Rome, which she completed in Rome in 1972. Journalistically, she worked for Radio Österreich International (ROI) and the Austria Press Agency, from where she was recruited by Paul Lendvai in 1986 to the pioneering team of the new ORF Eastern Europe editorial department. [2]
In 1989, Scholl went to Bonn as a correspondent for the ORF, and in 1991 she moved to Moscow. From 1997 to 2000, she headed the Europajournal on ORF radio at the Vienna headquarters, before returning to Moscow. Her temporary arrest by the Russian authorities while reporting from Chechnya caused a sensation. [3]
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), Natasha'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 Journey (poems), Alone at Home, The Queen of Sheba (short story), Waking Dream (novel).
Together with Monika Salzer, she founded the platform Omas gegen Rechts. [4]
The author Emil Scholl was her grandfather.
Scholl was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art and numerous prizes, such as the Axel Corti Prize of the Austrian National Education in 2007 and the Concordia Prize of the Presseclub Concordia. In 2009 she was Journalist of the Year in the category Foreign Policy. [6] In 2012, she was awarded the Buchliebling Lifetime Award. [7] In November 2012, she received the Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien . On 29 October 2020, she was awarded the 2020 Ferdinand Berger Prize by the Austrian Documentation Archive at Vienna City Hall. [8] In 2021, she was awarded the Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism . [9]
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