Susanne Scholl (born 19 September 1949) is an Austrian journalist, writer and doyenne of the foreign correspondents of the ORF.

Born in Vienna, Scholl is the daughter of an assimilated Austrian-Jewish medical family, whose tragic fate she dealt with in her novel Elsa's Grandfathers.

Journalistically, she worked for Radio Österreich International (ROI) and the Austria Press Agency, from where she was recruited by Paul Lendvai in 1986 to the pioneering team of the new ORF Eastern Europe editorial department.

[3] The mother of a pair of twins born in 1983 has emerged as a book author - Russian Diary, Moscow Kitchen Talks, Elsa's Grandfathers (novel), Natasha's Winter (stories), Journey to Karaganda (novel), Daughters of War - Survival in Chechnya, Red as Love (poems), Russia with and without a Soul, Russian Winter Journey (poems), Alone at Home, The Queen of Sheba (short story), Waking Dream (novel).

On 29 October 2020, she was awarded the 2020 Ferdinand Berger Prize by the Austrian Documentation Archive at Vienna City Hall.