Jury 2006

Andrea Ernst

Andrea Ernst studied social sciences in Vienna. During the 1990s, numerous textbooks and handbooks were published under her name and in collaboration with other authors. She has lived in Germany since 1987 where she started off working as a freelance television scriptwriter for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and for West German Broadcasting (WDR). In 1997 she became editor of the WDR’s cultural programming division and since 2002 has been editor of the WDR’s ARTE editorial team in Cologne, where among other things she is responsible for short films and non-fiction, and documentaries in the field of science and society. Andrea Ernst has been a member of the jury of the Vienna Film Fund since 2005.