The Apprentice in Austria? - How freedom of speech clashes with right to privacy and honor in film and politics

17.02.2025

At the end of 2024, the movie “The Apprentice“, a biopic about Donald Trump, is all over theaters, which might be a result of the recent political events that emerged around American presidential election. Even though the motion picture was released on 11th of October and thus almost a month before election day, the timing most likely wasn´t picked coincidentally. The plot focuses on a period of Donald Trump’s career as a businessman during the 1970s and 80s, and shares depictions of intimate insights in his way of doing business, his treatment of women and his private life. Having seen this movie, the first question that arose, would a similar movie about an Austrian politician be legal? Do public figures have different protection of their personal rights in Austria?

Author: Sebastian Schwarz

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