Armin Wolf
Armin Wolf ( born August 19, 1966 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian journalist and television presenter.
Career
Armin Wolf is deputy editor at the ORF television and moderated the daily news magazine ZiB 2 He is mainly known for his political live interviews, for which he was awarded several times. The FAZ called him in early 2008 ", the Austrian personal union by Claus Kleber and Tom Buhrow ".
The son of a janitor, Works and Christian trade unionist and a food seller in Innsbruck completed a commercial apprenticeship at a commercial college. There he undertook a co-founder of a school newspaper also first tentative steps of journalism. He was on the board of the student union and a member of the JVP, however, he resigned from the age of 18. His JVP membership called Wolf later as a " youthful indiscretion ."
Immediately after graduation Wolf began in 1985 in the Tyrolean regional studio of the ORF as a freelancer in the radio newsroom. In 1988 he moved to Vienna to the radio station OE1, where he worked as a foreign policy journalist for seven years (including 1991/92 as U.S. correspondent in Washington, DC). In 1995 he moved to television as ZiB 2 editor from 1998 to 2001 he was editorial director of ZiB 3, which he also helped develop.
His avocational studies in political science ( with a combination of sociology, education, History and Media Studies as a minor subject ) finished Wolf in 2000 at the University of Vienna with a thesis on the media presentation of policy. In 2005 he earned his doctorate at the University of Innsbruck with a dissertation on prominent career changers in politics, which was published under the title image policy. In 2010 he finished during a nine-month educational leave an executive MBA program at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership with a thesis on young audiences and political information. He is a lecturer in political science at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna, and was from 2005 to 2009 member of the board of the Austrian Society for Political Science.
Since the summer of 2002, Wolf presents the ZiB 2 ( only alternating with Ingrid Thurnher, later with Marie -Claire Zimmermann and since 2010 with Lou Lawrence Dittlbacher ). From 2002 to 2005 he hosted the talk show also said Open, 2005 and 2012, he led the traditional summer talks with the leaders of parliamentary parties.
Hochner - Prize speech in 2006
On 17 May 2006 Wolf received the Robert Hochner Prize for the summer talks in 2005. During the award ceremony in Vienna's Hofburg he criticized the ORF leadership and the political pressure of the then People's Party -led coalition government to the ORF. While the ÖVP near ORF Director-General Monika Lindner criticism decided rejected and Wolf " self-promotion " accused, he received widespread support from numerous colleagues and outside the ORF. That Lindner was not reappointed a few months later than the ORF boss, led some commentators to a broad protest movement (including the Internet petition SOS ORF) back, which had been (co-) triggered by Wolf's speech. Decisive, however, was a new political constellation in the ORF Foundation: Shortly before the upcoming parliamentary elections did not vote the AAF -affiliated foundation boards with their coalition partner ÖVP, but in a rainbow coalition with Social Democrats, the Greens and the FPÖ for Lindner's opposition candidate Alexander Wrabetz.
Journalistic style
Armin Wolf is best known for his live interviews with politicians, in which he " with biting wit and inquisitorial questioning technique abklopft the hollow characteristics of politics." Caused a stir among other things, a ZIB2 interview with the former Austrian Finance Minister Karl- Heinz Grasser, which went to the edge of the crash. The FPÖ party leader Heinz-Christian Strache, he demonstrated in the summer of 2005 conversation to have copied ( The forest transition by Ernst Jünger ) from a right-wing website, the seemingly self-written review of his favorite book.
Wolf has been criticized frequently by members of the ÖVP and the FPÖ (or AAF ) existing federal government Bowl II. Peter West Thaler Wolf counted among the " Old Left cells " that had to eliminate from the ORF. He was also a strained relationship with Werner Mueck, the former editor in chief of the ORF, rumored, who is considered close to the ÖVP.
On 13 February 2009, he went into the social networking platform Twitter. There he asks the readers of his micro - blog, to ask questions and suggestions to his interview partners in the ZIB2.
With a guest appearance on the TV satire series The 4 da Wolf in March 2007 made a trip to the entertainment genre. As a result, the fourth man, who takes the Austrian media concentration on the grain, he plays himself
Private
Armin Wolf lives with his wife Euke Frank, the chief editor of Woman, and her two children in Vienna. From 2001 to 2004 he was married to the ORF - presenter Birgit Fenderl.
Awards
- 2004: Austrian Journalist of the Year
- 2005: Concordia Prize for Freedom of the Press
- 2006: Robert Hochner price
- 2006: Golden Romy Favored Moderator
- 2007: Prof. Claus Gatterer price
- 2007: Golden Romy Favored Moderator
- 2008: Honorary Citizen of the University of Innsbruck
- 2012: Golden Romy Favored Moderator
- 2005: Austrian Yearbook of Policy 2004, pp. 619-668: celebrities career changers as testimonials of politics. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005. ISBN 978-3486578225.
- 2006: Celebrity politics - celebrities career changers in Portrait, (together with Frank Euke ) Czernin Verlag Wien ISBN 978-3707600681
- 2007: Image Policy - Celebrity newcomers as testimonials of the policy, Nomos Baden-Baden ISBN 978-3832928742
- 2012: Why do we need journalists, Picus Verlag, Wien, ISBN 978-3854526971 (eBook ISBN 978-3711751652 )?