Armin Wolf has been Deputy Editor-in-Chief of ORF’s TV news department since 2010 and, since 2002, anchor of its flagship news magazine ZiB 2 (approx. 25% market share, 600,000 daily viewers).
Politico Europe called him „one of Europe’s most skilled (and feared) political journalists“ and he was honored as European Journalist of the Year at the Prix Europa in 2019.
Born in Innsbruck in 1966, Armin Wolf began his career at ORF’s local studio in Tyrol as a radio reporter after graduating from an economics-focused high school in Innsbruck. From 1988 to 1994, he worked as a foreign affairs reporter for ORF Radio in Vienna, primarily covering the events of 1989 and its aftermath in Eastern Europe. In 1991-92, he was assigned to ORF’s Washington bureau. In 1995, he moved from radio to ORF‘s TV News Department, initially as a national affairs reporter. From 1998 to 2001 he served as managing editor of the newly launched midnight news program ZiB 3, before returning to ZiB 2 as its anchor.
Together with political scientist Peter Filzmaier, Armin presents the popular podcast The Professor and the Wolf and he is a regular host of In Conversation (Im Gespräch) on Ö1 radio.
Over the past three decades Armin has interviewed four Austrian federal presidents, eleven chancellors and nine foreign ministers, as well as numerous international leaders, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tabo Mbeki, Jean-Claude Juncker, Olaf Scholz, and Vladimir Putin.
He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Innsbruck, a master’s degree from the University of Vienna, and an MBA from Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin. He has lectured at various universities and has (co-)authored five books, most recently an introduction to Austria‘s political system and a journalism textbook.
Armin is the recipient of the prestigious Axel Corti Prize and Robert Hochner Prize (Austria), the Leuchtturm Prize awarded by Germany‘s Association of Investigative Journalists (Netzwerk Recherche) and the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Special Prize (Germany). In 2018 he received a Special Award at the Grimme-Prize (Germany) for his „outstanding contribution to television“. In 2004, 2018 and 2020 he was honored as Austria’s Journalist of the Year.