From January 12, 2025, Sunday evening offers space for “The Conversation” with Susanne Schnabl. This is the title of the new talk at 10:10 p.m. on ORF 2 and on ORF ON. But it’s not just the name and hostess that are new, the number of guests sitting around a table will also vary in the future. As part of a press conference on December 19, 2024 in the ORF info studio, the responsible editor-in-chief Johannes Bruckenberger, the interim head of the ORF discussion programs Eva Karabeg and Susanne Schnabl gave initial insights into the new program.
“The Conversation is intended to offer relevant topics with the most exciting guests. With the new show, we want to strengthen our position as the number 1 talk format and provide public service added value and conversation value. Ideally, our audience gets answers, classification and perspectives,” says Johannes Bruckenberger, the editor-in-chief responsible for the information broadcasts. The new Sunday evening talk is moderated by Susanne Schnabl. “In Susanne Schnabl we have found the best personality for this culture of conversation in the truest sense of the word, who has not only been awarded the highest domestic journalism awards, has conducted the most important live political programs with ‘Summer Talks’ and TV confrontations, but also with her Book ‘We have to talk. “Why we need a new culture of debate” who is an expert in the field of conversation,” says Bruckenberger.
For Schnabl, “The Conversation” represents a new challenge after twelve years of “Report”: “Being and staying in conversation is the glue that holds our society together in all its diversity and diversity. I am therefore looking forward to a new conversation format that gives space and time to the big, pressing questions. Because asking, inquiring, questioning political decisions, changing your perspective and broadening your perspective is what makes a good conversation so appealing. I’m looking forward to this challenge.”
Dr. Susanne Schnabl was born in Klagenfurt in 1980. The doctor of philology gained her first journalistic experience in print and radio during her studies. She has been working for the ORF since 2002, where she worked in many different areas such as the Ö1 domestic policy editorial team, the “Zeit im Bild” domestic policy editorial team and as an interviewer for the “Press Hour”. In 2016 and 2023, Schnabl moderated the ORF “Summer Talks”, in 2022 she conducted the interviews with the federal presidential candidates together with Armin Wolf, asked Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen “20 questions” together with Hanno Settele on the occasion of his second term in office and led the TV confrontations in 2024 ( together with Alexandra Maritza Wachter) on the National Council election as well as ongoing discussion programs by the top candidates and top candidates before state elections. She made her debut as a “Report” presenter on December 4, 2012. She has already received numerous awards for her work, including the State Prize for Educational Journalism, the Robert Hochner Prize and the Walther Rode Prize as part of the “Report” -Editor awarded. Her book “We have to talk” was published in 2018. Why we need a new culture of debate” as a contribution and appeal for a critical public capable of discourse. Susanne Schnabl is married to the ORF journalist (Ö3) Thomas Wunderlich and is the mother of a son and a daughter.
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