ARI RATH PRIZE FOR CRITICAL JOURNALISM

The Mayor of the Federal Capital of Vienna, Michael Häupl, and the Executive City Councillor for Culture, Science and Sport, Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, invite you to a Vienna Lecture one in the

ORF RadioKulturhaus, Large Broadcasting Hall
Argentinierstraße 30a, 1040 Vienna

Registration required:
01 501 70 377 or radiokulturhaus@orf.at

Welcome:
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, City Councillor for Culture, Science and Sport

Laudatio:
Former Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky

Followed by a discussion with:
Prizewinner Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Franz Vranitzky, Gertraud Auer Borea d'Olmo, chairwoman of the prize jury, and Anna Thalhammer, The Press

Moderation
Peter Pelinka, journalist and media consultant

Journalism and displacement
Ari Rath Prize for critical journalism awarded to journalist Alexandra Föderl-Schmid

The „Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism“ was established on the basis of a private initiative to honour the memory of the late Ari Rath, who died in January 2017.
renowned former editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post journalists
and journalists who have rendered outstanding services to critical reporting on flight, expulsion and asylum that is committed to upholding human rights. A
Jury of experts chaired by Gertraud Auer Borea d'Olmo, Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Relations
dialogue and close confidante of Ari Rath, honours Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, who was unanimously elected as the first prize winner at this Vienna lecture in cooperation with the Kreisky Forum.

Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, born in 1971, has been with the Süddeutsche Zeitung since November 2017 and reports on Israel and the Palestinian territories.
areas. Prior to this, she was editor-in-chief and co-editor of Der Standard and the news portal derStandard.at. Föderl-Schmid was honoured with the Kurt Vorhofer Prize and the Constitution Prize. She was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Press Council in Austria.

Ari Rath, Israeli journalist, publicist and peace activist, was born in Vienna in 1925 and had to emigrate in November 1938. Founding member of the kibbutz
Chamadiya in Palestine. From 1958 editor, from 1975 editor-in-chief and publisher of the Jerusalem Post. In 2005 he received the German Federal Cross of Merit, in 2011 the Grand Decoration of Honour of the Republic of Austria. Rath died in Vienna in 2017.