ARI RATH PRIZE FOR CRITICAL JOURNALISM

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ARI RATH PRIZE FOR CRITICAL JOURNALISM
Flight - Expulsion - Asylum

Greeting: Franz Vranitzky, Former Federal Chancellor, Founding and Honorary President of the Kreisky Forum
Jury's Reasoning: Gertraud Borea d'Olmo, Secretary General of the Kreisky Forum

Prize winner Irene Brickner, The Standard
Introducer: Rubina Möhring, Reporters Without Borders

Prize of honour: Anneliese Rohrer, Journalist
Laudator Oliver Rathkolb, Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna

Moderation Birgit Fenderl, ORF

Reading from Ari Rath's book „Ari heißt Löwe. Memories“: Elisabeth Orth, actress
Vocals: Shmuel Barzilai, Senior Cantor of the Jewish Community of Vienna in Vienna

The „Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism“ was established on the basis of a private initiative to honour journalists, in the spirit of the renowned former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post who passed away in January 2017, who have earned distinction in their work for reporting on flight, displacement, and asylum in a critical manner 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 Dialogue and close confidant of Ari Rath, has unanimously nominated Irene Brickner for this year's „Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism“.

The „Ari Rath Honorary Award“ was unanimously awarded to Dr Anneliese Rohrer.

With the kind support of WIEN ENERGIE

Irene Brickner studied political science and sociology at the University of Vienna. She has worked for the daily newspaper Neue AZ, the NÖN and the ORF, among others. She has worked as a freelancer for profil and Falter.
Irene Brickner has been an editor and commentator in the Chronicle/Panorama section since 2005, and has also been chief editor at Der Standard since 2018. She often comments on human rights issues and mainly covers asylum and immigration law issues, gender equality policy and environmental topics in her reports.
In her articles, Brickner shines the spotlight on the dark side, on those people in Austria who are disadvantaged in our society. In her work, she is committed to integration and to amending the Aliens Act.
Irene Brickner has received numerous awards, including the Dr Karl Renner Journalism Prize in the online category for „Brickner's Blog“ on derStandard.at. In 2007, together with Johanna Ruzicka, she published the book „Heiße Zeiten: 50 Antworten auf brennende Fragen zum Klimawandel“. In 2012, her "Schwarzbuch Menschenrechte" was published by Residenz Verlag.

Anneliese Rohrer has been commenting on Austrian domestic politics for 45 years. After studying history in Vienna, she spent three years as a university assistant in Auckland. Back in Austria, she started working for the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse in 1974. In 1987, she became head of the domestic policy department. In 2001, during the Schüssel I government, she was transferred to the foreign policy department by the then editor-in-chief of Die Presse, Andreas Unterberger, which she headed until her compulsory retirement after reaching the statutory retirement age in 2005. In 2005, the book „Charakter Fehler. Die Österreicher und ihre Politiker“ was published in 2005, followed by the book „Ende des Gehorsams“ in 2011.
From 2005 to 2009, she wrote weekly for the Kurier. Rohrer has been a columnist for the daily newspaper Die Presse since 2009. She collaborated with her daughter on the documentary films „Fatal Promises“ (human trafficking, 2013) and „Back to the Fatherland“ (young Israelis in Vienna and Berlin, 2018). She also taught journalism at the Vienna University of Applied Sciences from 2005 to 2012. Rohrer also became known to a wider public through her regular
Participation in discussion programmes on Austrian television and the radio station Ö1.

Members of the jury:

Gertraud Borea d'Olmo, Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum
Fritz Hausjell, media historian, Institute for Journalism Studies, University of Vienna
Rubina Möhring, President of Reporters Without Borders
Oliver Rathkolb, historian, Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna

Previous award winners:

2018: Dr Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, former publisher and editor-in-chief of Der Standard, correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Israel since 2017

2019: Silvana Meixner, Heimat-Fremde-Heimat, ORF, Award of Honour: Helmut Brandstätter, Kurier