Anneliese Rohrer

She grew up as the middle of three daughters with her mother, who had taken over a furniture store in Klagenfurt, without a father – the National Socialists had fallen in Yugoslavia in 1944 – in Carinthia.

When she later returned to Austria, she studied law at the University of Vienna, but then switched to history and Doctorate (PhD) in 1971 Dr. phil.

After differences with the then editor-in-chief Andreas Unterberger, she moved to the foreign policy department in 2001, which she headed until her forced retirement from the newspaper in 2004.

[2] In addition, she teaches journalism at the Fachhochschule Wien and sits on the advisory board of the monthly magazine Datum.

Rohrer also became known to a wider public through her regular participation in discussion programs on Austrian television and the radio station Ö1.