Mary Kreutzer was born 1970 in Upper Austria and grew up in Guatemala and Carinthia. She is a political scientist and journalist specializing in antisemitism, women's rights, development politics, and refugees. Her work has been recognized with the Eduard Ploier Radio Award of the Austrian Board of Education,  the European Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Concordia-Publizistikpreis, Category Human Rights. The book "Commodity Woman" was shortlisted for the “Science Book of the year” by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research in 2009. She is chairwoman of the League of Emancipatory Development Cooperation (LeEZA), which organizes projects for women in Iraq and Turkey, and editor of the human rights magazine liga from the Austrian League of Human Rights. Since 2009 she leads "Missing Link", the department for integration and community work of the Caritas in Lower Austria and since 2011 she teaches a course on migration at the University of Applied Sciences in Dornbirn.

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Recent works:

Commodity Woman
On the trails of modern slavery from Africa to Europe
By Mary Kreutzer and Corinna Milborn
Published 2008 by Ecowin Verlag, Salzburg
ISBN: 978-3-902404-57-2240 pages (german)
Information about the book
Buisness with the "Commodity Woman"

Somehow in between
The life of the journalist Karl Pfeifer
Documentary A, H, IL. 2008 (87 min., German with English subtitles)
By Mary Kreutzer, Ingo Lauggas, Maria Pohn-Weidinger and Thomas Schmidinger  (Cut: D.Binder)
Homepage of the filmmakers
Synopsis of the film