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Franziska Chariah – Lockenhauserin works for the UNO in New York


“It felt like home for me from day one,” says Franziska Chariah, who is probably better known in Lockenhaus by her maiden name Schmidt. She has been living in New York for five years and has been working there at the United Nations Organization (UNO) since October 2020.

Twice at home. New York became Franziska Chariah’s second home, but she always likes to come to Lockenhaus, especially to her family – in the picture sister Magdalena and Mama Christine.

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But her adventure began in 2017, when she decided at the age of 21 to go to New York as an au pair. “After two months I met my current husband,” she says. After a brief return to Austria in September 2018, she moved across the pond again in early 2019 to see her boyfriend again. “I got a marriage proposal and stayed the same.”

She found the job at the UN through a job advertisement on the Internet. Now she works at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations as an administrative assistant for several diplomats.

“There are also a lot of representative visits from Vienna and we do a lot of events,” says Chariah, who also met ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen at work during their visits to New York.

“I’m proud and thankful every day that I’m part of the team,” she says. “What I miss from home is the friendliness. Many believe that Americans are nicer. But every day I get to be in a metropolis where others fly to on vacation.”

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