Sigrid Leitner

Sigrid Leitner was born in 1970 and is the daughter of Alfons Leitner, the village chronicler of Villnöss. She studied journalism and languages in Vienna and Trento. She then worked for ten years for a South Tyrolean business association in Bolzano, coordinating and editing its periodical. She also completed practical training in public relations and journalism. Her professional career additionally included teaching at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at Cologne University of Applied Sciences.