Armin Thurnher (born 21 February 1949) is an Austrian journalist. He is publisher and editor-in-chief of the Viennese city newspaper ''
Falter
''Falter'' ( en, italic=yes, Butterfly) is a weekly Austrian news magazine published in Vienna.
History and profile
Established in 1977, ''Falter'' is published weekly on Wednesdays. The magazine was founded by Walter Martin Kienreich. The pu ...
''.
Life
Thurnher was born in
Bregenz. After studying
Anglistics
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and American studies (1967/68) at the
Wagner College in New York and
Germanistics and
theatre studies in Vienna from 1968 - which he did not complete - Thurnher became a member of the editorial collective of ''
Falter
''Falter'' ( en, italic=yes, Butterfly) is a weekly Austrian news magazine published in Vienna.
History and profile
Established in 1977, ''Falter'' is published weekly on Wednesdays. The magazine was founded by Walter Martin Kienreich. The pu ...
'' in 1977, member of the editorial collective of the Viennese city newspaper ''
Falter
''Falter'' ( en, italic=yes, Butterfly) is a weekly Austrian news magazine published in Vienna.
History and profile
Established in 1977, ''Falter'' is published weekly on Wednesdays. The magazine was founded by Walter Martin Kienreich. The pu ...
'' founded and published by and (since June 2012) continues to be its publisher as well as its editor-in-chief alongside . He is also co-owner of the Falter publishing house. Since 1970 he has been active as a freelance author, actor and stage musician at the theatre; in 1972 he wrote the play ''Stoned Vienna'' together with . In the 1980s, he was the correspondent in Vienna for the cultural magazine . In the 1990s, he worked for the weekly newspapers ''
Die Zeit
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History
The ...
'' and ''
Die Woche''. His columns appeared among others in the daily newspapers ''AZ'', ''
Die Presse'' and ''
Kleine Zeitung''. He also sits on the board of
open television Okto, where he is also one of the presenters of the ''Das Medienquartett'' programme.
Thurnher is a critic of the Austrian print media landscape, which is dominated by the ''
Kronen Zeitung'' and the glossy magazines of the
NEWS group
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. He concluded his editorials in the ''Falter'', every week for twenty years, in the style of
Cato's ''
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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'' with the sentence: ''For the rest, I am of the opinion that the Mediamil complex must be smashed''. ''Mediamil'' is a word combination created by Thurnher from ' and the magazines ''
Format
Format may refer to:
Printing and visual media
* Text formatting, the typesetting of text elements
* Paper formats, or paper size standards
* Newspaper format, the size of the paper page
Computing
* File format, particular way that informatio ...
'' and ''
Profil'' from the NEWS group.
In August 2014, Thurnher discontinued the habit of the ''last sentence'', which had been cultivated over decades and had become dear to his readers. The word formation ''Feschismus'', a
portmanteau from
Fascism and fesch, also goes back to Thurnher.
Works
* ''Schwarze Zwerge. Österreichs Medienlandschaft und ihre Bewohner.'' Sonderzahl, Vienna 1992, .
* ''Franz Vranitzky im Gespräch mit Armin Thurnher.'' Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt 1992, .
* ''Österreich neu. Der Report an den Kanzler. Zwölf Provokationen zu Themen der Zeit.'' Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, .
* Aufgezeichnet:
Leon Zelman
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* Province of León, Spain
* Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...
: ''Ein Leben nach dem Ãœberleben''. Kremayr und Scheriau, Vienna 1995, .
* ''Das Trauma, ein Leben. Österreichische Einzelheiten.'' Zsolnay, Vienna 1999, .
* ''Heimniederlage. Nachrichten aus dem neuen Österreich.'' Zsolnay, Vienna 2000, .
* ''Wie werde ich Magazin-Journalist?'' In Reinhard Christl, Silke Rudorfer (ed.): Wie werde ich Journalist/in? Wege in den Traumberuf.
LIT Verlag, Vienna 2007, , pp. 161 ff.
* ''Die Wege entstehen im Gehen. Alfred Gusenbauer im Gespräch mit Katharina Krawagna-Pfeifer und Armin Thurnher.'' Czernin, Vienna 2008, .
* ''Der Übergänger.'' Roman, Zsolnay, Vienna 2009, .
* ''Thurnher auf Rezept. Die besten Kochideen aus Visa Magazin, Magazin Complete und Falter.'' ''Falter'', Vienna 2010, .
* ''Republik ohne Würde.'' Zsolnay, Vienna 2013, .
* ''Ach, Österreich!'' Europäische Lektionen aus der Alpenrepublik. Zsolnay, Vienna 2016, .
* ''Fähre nach Manhattan: Mein Jahr in Amerika.'' Zsolnay, Vienna 2019, .
Awards
* 1991:
Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik Preis may refer to:
* Alfred Preis (1911–1993), Austrian architect
* Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007), German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer
* Mary Louise Preis (b. 1941), US politician
* Phil Preis (born 1950), ...
* 1999:
Ehrenpreis des Vorarlberger Buchhandels Ehrenpreis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Leon Ehrenpreis (1930–2010), American mathematician
** Ehrenpreis conjecture
**Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem
*Mordecai Ehrenpreis
Mordecai Ehrenpreis (25 June 1869 – 26 Februa ...
* 1999:
Bruno-Kreisky-Preis für das politische Buch (Hauptpreis) für ''Das Trauma, ein Leben. Österreichische Einzelheiten''
* 2000: Silbernes Ehrenzeichen der Stadt Wien
* 2001:
Kurt-Vorhofer-Preis für Publizistik
* 2002:
Dr.-Karl-Renner-Publizistikpreis
* 2005: , Kategorie Pressefreiheit
iener Stadtzeitung ''Falter''* 2010:
* 2013:
Otto-Brenner-Preis, Kategorie "Spezial"
* 2016: Bruno-Kreisky-Preis für das politische Buch, Preis für das publizistische Gesamtwerk.
''orf.at - Milanovic erhält Kreisky-Preis für das Politische Buch 2016''
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References
Further reading
* : ''Skeptischer Patriot''. In '' Börsenblatt'' 173 (2006) 37, .
External links
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Ausgewählte FALTER-Artikel von Armin Thurnher
Radio-Portrit of Armin Thurnher
in the Ö1 broadcast series "Chronisten, Reporter, Aufklärer" aus dem Jahr 2002
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Austrian editors
Austrian columnists
20th-century Austrian journalists
21st-century Austrian journalists
Opinion journalists
1949 births
Living people
People from Bregenz