{{Short description|Chilean journalist (born 1938)}} {{Infobox person | name = Irene Geis | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Irene Bluthenthal Geis | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1938|02|06|df=yes}} | birth_place = Germany | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Journalist, writer, television presenter, editor | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | alma_mater = University of Chile | spouse = | children = | awards = {{Plainlist| * Lenka Franulic Award<ref name=Mansilla>{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.cl/bnd/628/w3-article-170414.html |title=La copa de vinagre de Irene Geis |trans-title=The Glass of Vinegar by Irene Geis |last=Mansilla |first=Luis Alberto |magazine=Punto Final |location=Santiago |number=382 |page=21 |language=Spanish |date=22 November 1996 |access-date=23 October 2017 |via=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile}}</ref> * 1960s Workshop Award from Casa de las Américas }} }}
'''Irene Bluthenthal Geis''' (born 6 February 1938) is a Chilean journalist, writer, editor, and former television presenter, best known for hosting the program ''Emisión Cero'' on Canal 9 during the 1960s,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Alí-Babá y sus 40 periodistas |trans-title=Ali Baba and His 40 Journalists |last=Puelma Urzúa |first=Hernán |publisher=Editorial Desierto |page=23 |language=Spanish |year=1968}}</ref> and ''Contrapunto'' and ''Aire Libre'' in the early 1970s on the same channel.<ref name=Carrera>{{Cite web |url=http://www.periodismoudec.cl/historia/directores-de-la-carrera/irene-geis/ |title=Irene Geis |publisher=University of Concepción School of Journalism |language=Spanish |access-date=23 October 2017}}</ref>
==Biography== The daughter of German-Jewish parents, Geis was born in Germany and emigrated to Chile with her family in 1939.<ref name=Mansilla/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.simplementeeditores.cl/irene_geis.html |title=Irene Geis |publisher=Simplemente Editores |language=Spanish |access-date=23 October 2017 |archive-date=23 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023032553/http://www.simplementeeditores.cl/irene_geis.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> She returned to Chile to stay in 1977, after leaving for Argentina during the 1973 coup d'état.<ref name=Torquemada>{{Cite news |url=http://www.elclarin.cl/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6397 |title=La Pasión de Torquemada, última novela de Irene Geis |trans-title=The Passion of Torquemada, Latest Novel By Irene Geis |last=Carmona |first=Ernesto |work=Clarín |language=Spanish |date=5 November 2012 |access-date=23 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307125427/http://www.elclarin.cl/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6397 |archive-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://prontus2.lanacion.cl/irene-geis-genial/noticias/2006-01-25/185331.html |title=Irene Geis, Genial |last=Donoso |first=Fernanda |work=La Nación |location=Santiago |language=Spanish |date=26 January 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022060219/http://prontus2.lanacion.cl/irene-geis-genial/noticias/2006-01-25/185331.html |archive-date=22 October 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=23 October 2017 }}</ref>
She studied journalism at the University of Chile, and her career began at the newspaper ''La Tercera''.<ref name=bares>{{Cite web |url=http://www.periodismo.uchile.cl/noticias/2003/50periodismo.html |title=De los bares y la máquina de escribir a la Internet |trans-title=From the Bars and the Typewriter to the Internet |last=Estrada |first=Daniela |publisher=University of Chile School of Journalism |location=Santiago |language=Spanish |date=10 July 2003 |access-date=23 October 2017}}</ref> While working as editor there, she contributed to the magazines ''7 Días'' – between 26 March 1965 and 9 January 1967<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-93382.html |title=Dejó su cargo en la editorial |trans-title=He Left His Position at the Publishing House |website=Memoria Chilena |language=Spanish |access-date=23 October 2017}}</ref> – and ''Pluma y Pincel'', in addition to being director of ''Fortín Mapocho''.<ref name=Torquemada/> During her professional career she has received several honors for her journalistic work, among them the Lenka Franulic Award in 1967<ref name=Mansilla/> and the 1960s Workshop Award from Casa de las Américas the same year.<ref name=Torquemada/>
In the literary field, Geis's first work was published in 1984 under the title ''Exiliario'', a book compiling 11 of her short stories. In 1996 she published her first novel, ''Copa de vinagre'', to mixed reviews.<ref name=Mansilla/>
In the area of teaching, Geis was a professor and director of the journalism school at the University of Concepción in the early 1970s. Beginning in the 1990s she occupied the same position at the Academy of Christian Humanism University. In addition, in 1998 she became a professor at the University of Chile's School of Journalism.<ref name=Carrera/><ref name=bares/>
==Works== ===Fiction=== * ''Exiliario'' (1984) * ''Copa de vinagre'' (1996) * ''Como un pájaro sin luz'' (2004) * ''La pasión de Torquemada'' (2012)
===Academic=== * ''"Los hilos invisibles del deporte": uso ideológico del acontecimiento deportivo en dos diarios de circulación nacional, 1973–1988''
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