Gudrun Trausmuth
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Gudrun Trausmuth (née Födermayr; born 10 October 1969) is an Austrian literary scholar and Catholic journalist.
Biography
Trausmuth grew up in the Austrian-Bavarian border region. After graduating from high school in Untergriesbach, Bavaria, she studied German philology and Romance languages at the University of Vienna, with study visits to Angers and Paris. She completed her doctorate ander Werner Welzig at the University of Vienna on sermons portrayed in 19th and 20th century narrative literature. She worked as a translator and from 1998 to 2004 as an educational consultant at the University of Vienna's Catholic Community.
She has been working in radio and print journalism since 2013. Gudrun Trausmuth is an editorial staff member at Radio Maria Austria. Since 2013, she has been publishing in the German weekly newspaper Die Tagespost. From 2016 to 2020, she published the column “BeneDicta” on cultural and socio-political topics on the news portal Kath.net. Since 2020, Trausmuth has been teaching Philosophy of Religion at the European Institute for Religion and Philosophy at the Benedict XVI Philosophical-Theological University in Heiligenkreuz.
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