Webhofer, Temel-Stiller, Marlovits, Lahnsteiner, Zeinlinger and Williwald
Vienna (OTS) – Other important personnel decisions at ORF:
ORF General Director Roland Weißmann has appointed Klaus Webhofer (domestic policy), Kristina Temel-Stiller (economics), Johannes Marlovits (foreign policy and EU), Claudia Lahnsteiner (chronicle), Daniel Zeinlinger (weather) and Christian Williwald (Ö1 Information) as department heads. Department heads within ORF Information as well as Peter Unger (domestic policy), Hanna Sommersacher (economics), Karin Koller (foreign policy and EU), Barbara Gansfuss-Kojetinsky (chronicle) and Nicola Biermair (weather) were appointed as their deputies.
All of those mentioned will be heading multimedia departments for the first time. The new department heads will take office on February 15, 2024.
For ORF General Director Mag. Roland Weissmann, “With the department heads now appointed in the respective departments, the who’s who of local journalism is responsible for the ORF’s daily information output. The multimedia ORF newsroom is now set up in terms of technology and personnel in the way that our audience can expect from an ORF for everyone.”
Mag. Klaus Webhofer, 56
Born in Merano, South Tyrol, Klaus Webhofer has been working for ORF since 1991, initially at RÖI, then in 1995 he moved to radio information and from there was sent to Bonn as an ORF correspondent. In 1998 Webhofer returned to radio as a domestic policy editor. Since 2007 he has also been responsible for the program and presenter of “Klartext” at the ORF RadioKulturhaus. From 2016 to 2017 and from 2020 to 2021, Webhofer was a moderator, planner and CvD at the Ö1-Journalen, and since November 2021 he has been interim head of internal policy at Radio Information. Klaus Webhofer, who is also a regular interviewer for the Ö1 Saturday series “Im Journal zu Gast”, was awarded the Robert Hochner Prize in 2011.
Mag. Kristina Temel-Stiller, 43
The Salzburg native began her ORF career in 2001 in the “ZIB Nachtjournal”. After two years at the ZIB news desk, she began working as an editor and reporter for the ZIB in 2005, including for the economics department. From 2010 to 2013, Stiller was an ORF correspondent in France, and in 2015 she reported on the terrorist attacks there. After two maternity leaves, she returned to TV Information as a business editor in 2019. Since 2021, she has been a member of the ZIB analysis team, where she also took on tasks as deputy business department head.
Allowed. Johannes Marlovits, 53
The Burgenland native began his journalistic career in 1996 as an editor and presenter at ORF Lower Austria. In 1999 he moved to Ö3 as an editor and presenter, and from 2002 to 2004 he was a correspondent in the ORF Washington office. After his return, he worked in the TV foreign editorial team until 2007, when he became deputy head of ZIB 2. From 2010 to 2013 he was a correspondent again – this time in Berlin. Marlovits moderated various editions of ZIB until 2018, before presenting ZIB 1 until 2020. From May 2020 he was the deputy head of the TV foreign policy department and since November 2021 he has been the interim head.
Mag. Claudia Lahnsteiner, 52
Born in Bad Goisern, she began her ORF career in 1992 in the office of the then Upper Austrian regional director Hannes Leopoldseder. In 1995 she came to the ORF center in Vienna as assistant to the then ORF press spokeswoman Brigitte Wolf, before moving to the editorial team of the current service for television and radio in 1997. From 2002 to 2015, Lahnsteiner was head of operations and editor at hit radio Ö3 before taking over as office manager in the TV program management. From 2019, Lahnsteiner was head of the TV chronicle department and deputy editor-in-chief.
Mag. Daniel Zeinlinger, 45
The Lower Austrian and studied meteorologist specializing in synoptic meteorology (weather forecast) completed internships at Austrocontrol and ZAMG in the mid and late 1990s. After a stopover at the Institute of Meteorology at the University of Vienna, Zeinlinger began his ORF career in 2002 as a weather editor in radio information, including multimedia work for radio and text media. He was also responsible for the development and co-development of meteorological applications for editorial use in cooperation with other specialist departments. Zeinlinger has been interim head of the weather department at Radio Information since 2022.
Mag. Christian Williwald, 54
The Viennese began his journalistic career in 1991 at the Austria Press Agency in the areas of domestic policy, foreign policy, sports, chronicles and online services. After working in the ORF sports department in 1990, Williwald returned to the ORF in 1996, initially as a current affairs editor in the Vienna regional studio. In 2001 he moved to Ö3, including as head of the service. He then worked in the radio business department until 2010, including as deputy department head. He then moved to Ö1 Information as a moderator and boss, which he has managed on an interim basis since 2023.