Hugo Portisch

Austrian journalist (1927–2021) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hugo Portisch (19 February 1927 – 1 April 2021) was a longstanding, broadly recognized and popular Austrian journalist, as well as a writer.[1][2]

Hugo Portisch, 2009

Awards and honours

  • 2010: Concordia Honorary Award
  • 2012: Julius Raab Medal[3]
  • 2014: renewed Journalist of the Year Award for his life's work[4]
  • 2015: Viktor Frankl Prize[5]
  • 2016: Honorary Citizen of St. Pölten[6]
  • 2018: Honorary Citizen of the City of Vienna[7]
  • 2019: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria[8]


In October 2022, a part of Würzburggasse, a street in Vienna, was renamed in Portisch's honour. The location was chosen as the ORF is headquartered here: Its address thus changed to Hugo-Portisch-Gasse 1.

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