born in 1953 in Vienna, worked as a director for opera and screenplay writher. He staged operas in Berlin, Hamburg, Novi Sad and Vienna. In 1997, during his work as a consultant for the Austrian Federal Ministry for Culture in Tirana, the civil war broke out and he started reporting on the occurrences for the ORF. Since then, he had been reporting for the ORF and Spiegel-TV form the Balkans, Mongolia and from the Middle East. Paul Flieder passed away 2010.