Alexander Geringer
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April 17, 1966 Ottakring, Vienna, Austria |
| Occupation | magazine publisher, creative director, journalist |
| Known for | founder of Aheadmedia, co-founder of Wallpaper*, launched H.O.M.E. magazine in Germany, Austria and across CEE |
Alexander Geringer (born April 17, 1966) is an Austrian journalist, creative director and magazine publisher. He is the founder and owner of Austrian magazine publishing house Ahead Media.
Alexander Geringer was born and raised in the Ottakring district of Vienna, Austria. As a high school student at the municipal science-oriented upper school Bundesrealgymnasium Schuhmeierplatz (BRG XVI), he led his school’s team to victory at the Vienna High School Chess Tournament in 1979. He was also active in school politics and in 1983 as school spokesman joined the Vienna municipal school advisory council.
In 1982, Geringer co-organized with two other schools the first-ever music festival that was held on Vienna’s Danube Island. Held on June 19, 1982, some 3000 guests experienced the performances of local cult bands such as , , Rosachrom and . The event set a precedent: a year later, the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) hosted the first Danube Island festival (Donauinselfest), which now attracts millions.
Geringer began his journalistic career in 1982 while still in high school at the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) as a designer and radio moderator for programs such as ZickZack, Music Box and Radiothek. During this time, ZickZack was awarded the “Golden Microphone” issued by Hörzu magazine.
In 1984, he began studies in business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, yet soon abandoned this to work as a freelance journalist for ORF as well as for various magazines. In 1985 he uncovered a scandal involving the illegal sale of aborted fetuses and brain tissue by the pathology departments of several Vienna hospitals. For years, the German pharmaceutical company B. Braun Melsungen had been purchasing brain tissue derived from corpses directly from department assistants. Working undercover, Geringer also succeeded in purchased brain tissue and aborted embryos. The breaking story was first published in the Austrian news magazine Ikarus, and a year later made the cover of the legendary German magazine Konkret. The scandal gained the attention of numerous European television stations and newspapers such as El Pais, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Der Spiegel. (The company was later involved in an even further-reaching scandal involving contaminated brain tissue used in one of its products, Lyodura.)
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