Brucknerfest ::: Festredner ::: Brucknerhaus Linz / Austria

Keynote speakers of the Brucknerfest from 1977 to 2010

Elfriede Hammerl is keynote speaker at the

Brucknerfest Linz 2010

Biography:

Elfriede Hammerl was born in 1945 in the Austrian province of Styria, grew up in Vienna and now lives in the nearby town of Gumpoldskirchen. She has a daughter (born in 1982). Elfriede Hammerl studied German language & literature, theater and art history at the University of Vienna. While still an undergraduate, she began working for the Austrian newspaper Neues Österreich, and ultimately chose to forsake academia to pursue a career in journalism.

From 1970 to 1977, Elfriede Hammerl was an editor and columnist at Kurier, a leading Viennese daily, where she became the first columnist at any Austrian paper to write about the situation of women from a feminist perspective.

She has been a freelance author since 1977. Her long list of publications includes books (novels, short stories, essays), screenplays and works for the theater. Since 1984, Elfriede Hammerl has written a column focusing on women’s issues, social welfare policymaking and education for the Austrian newsweekly profil. From 1985 to 1995, she was also a columnist for the German magazine stern.

Elfriede Hammerl was a co-initiator of Austria's referendum on women’s issues in April 1997, ran for a seat in Parliament on the Liberal Forum ticket in 1999, and was a member of the University of Innsbruck’s Advisory Board from 2000 to 2002. She has been honored with the Journalism Prize of the City of Vienna (1999), the Women’s Prize of the City of Vienna (2002) and the Concordia Prize in the Human Rights category (2003).

Pictures of the keynote speakers from 1977 to 2009