ORF presenter, editor, director of documentaries, and protestant theologian. With her contemporary-history, cultural, philosophical, theological, and journalistic works, the presenter of the radio programme Ö1 has enriched Austrian television, radio and culture for many decades. In 2011, her documentary ‚The Life of Ruth Klüger‘ had its premiere at the Vienna International Filmfestival VIENNALE. Since 2013 Renata Schmidtkunz has presented the one-hour Ö1 broadcast series ‚Im Gespräch‘, in which she creates an atmosphere for conversation that conveys exciting facts, controversial interpretations, and new insights about the subjective view of her guests. For her work, Renata Schmidtkunz received numerous awards, as for example with the ‘Frauenring-Preis’ by the Österreichischer Frauenring ‘for extraordinary work based on feminist principles’ in 2011, the ‘Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik’ in 2012, the ‘Axel-Corti-Preis’ for extraordinary work in radio and on television in 2014, and in 2020 with the ‚Radiopreis der Erwachsenenbildung Österreich‘ (‚radio-prize for adult education Austria‘) in the category of education (Eduard-Polier-Preis).