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Maria-Pia Kothbauer with Rita Kieber-Beck and Emil Brix

Emil Brix (born 1956) is an Austrian

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Life and career

Born 1956 in

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, he studied

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at the

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. Starting in 1982, he worked for the Foreign Service of the Republic of

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. From 1984 to 1986, he was a secretary of the

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(ÖVP), and from 1986 to 1989, he worked in the office of the federal minister for science and research,

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. From 1990 to 1995, he was the

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, and from 1995 to 1999, he was the manager of the Austrian Institute for Culture in

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. Until early 2010, he was the director of the politico-cultural section of the foreign office. Between April 2010 and January 2015, Brix was the Austrian ambassador in London. On 19 January 2015, he assumed office as the Austrian ambassador in

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. Brix is also the representative chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. He became the director of the

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in 2017.

Awards

On 26 January 2009, Brix was awarded the golden medal

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by Bogdan Zdrojewski, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, at the galleries of the International Culture Centre in Kraków. This medal is the highest award in Poland for people who rendered outstanding service to Polish culture in an artistic way or for the preservation of Polish cultural heritage.

List of publications

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, Emil Brix: Projekt Mitteleuropa. 1986 * Emil Brix/Lisa Fischer, Die Frauen der Wiener Moderne (translated as: Women of the Vienna modern spirit). 1994 * Urs Altermatt/Emil Brix, Schweiz und Österreich. Eine Nachbarschaft in Mitteleuropa (translated as: Switzerland and Austria. A Neighbourship in Central Europe). 1996 * Emil Brix / Wolfgang Mantl, Liberalismus. Grundlagen und Perspektiven (translated as: Liberalism. Basics and perspectives). 1996 * Emil Brix, Jürgen Nautz (Hg.): Zwischen Wettbewerb und Protektion. Zur Rolle staatlicher Macht und wettbewerblicher Freiheit in Österreich im 20. Jahrhundert. Passagen Verlag, Wien 1998, * Emil Brix (Hg.): Civil Society in Österreich. Reihe Civil Society der Österreichischen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Passagen Verlag, Wien 1998 * Emil Brix, Sigurd Paul Scheichl (Hg.): Dürfen's denn das? Die fortdauernde Frage zum Jahr 1848. Passagen Verlag, Wien 1999, * Emil Brix, Rudolf Richter (Hg.): Organisierte Privatinteressen. Vereine in Österreich. 1. Auflage. Passagen Verlag, Wien 2000, . * Emil Brix, Manfred Prisching: Persönliches und Gesellschaftliches. Ein Gespräch mit Peter L. Berger. In: Manfred Pritsching (Hg.): Gesellschaft verstehen. Peter L. Berger und die Soziologie der Gegenwart. Passagen Verlag, Wien 2001, , S. 149–163 * Emil Brix, Gerhard Luf, Jürgen Nautz (Hg.): Das Rechtssystem zwischen Staat und Zivilgesellschaft. Zur Rolle gesellschaftlicher Selbstregulierung und vorstaatlicher Schlichtung. Passagen Verlag, Wien 2001, * Emil Brix, Jügen Nautz (Hg.): Universitäten in der Zivilgesellschaft. 1. Auflage. Passagen Verlag, Wien 2002, (Buchvorschau bei Libreka). * Emil Brix, Peter Kampits (Hg.): Zivilgesellschaft zwischen Liberalismus und Kommunitarismus. 1. Auflage. Passagen Verlag, Wien 2003, (Buchvorschau bei Libreka). * Emil Brix/ Ernst Bruckmüller / Hannes Stekl, Memoria Austriae 1 Menschen - Mythen – Zeiten (Memoria Austriae 1 Human – myth – times). 2004 * Emil Brix, Jürgen Nautz, Klaus Thien (Hg.): Zivilcourage. 1. Auflage. Passagen Verlag, Wien 2004, (Buchvorschau bei Libreka). * Emil Brix, Jürgen Nautz (Hg.): Taxes, Civil Society and the State. Steuern, Zivilgesellschaft und Staat. Passagen Verlag, Wien 2006, * Emil Brix, Jürgen Nautz, Klaus Poier (Hg.): Die österreichische Verfassungsdiskussion und die Zivilgesellschaft. 1. Auflage. Passagen Verlag, Wien 2006, (Buchvorschau bei Libreka). * Emil Brix, Jürgen Nautz, Rita Trattnigg, Werner Wutscher (Hg.): State and Civil Society. Passagen Verlag, Wien 2007,

References

External links

Ambassador Dr. Emil Brix
– Director of the Vienna School of International Studies {{DEFAULTSORT:Brix, Emil 1956 births Ambassadors of Austria to the United Kingdom Austrian diplomats Living people