Christian Lerch (journalist)

Christian Lerch (* 1978 ) is a journalist and feature writer.

Christian Lerch at the Prix ​​Europa award ceremony , October 20, 2017

Life

Lerch writes and produces radio features etc. a. for ORF Radio Austria 1 , WDR 3 , Deutschlandradio Kultur and Deutschlandfunk .

In 2013 Christian Lerch was presented with the topic “The 1000 eyes of the city. Control and surveillance of a metropolis “ Fellow at the European Journalism Fellowship of the FU Berlin .

Growing up in the Lake Constance city of Bregenz , Christian Lerch began to research and work for an oral history project at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City after studying political science at the University of Vienna and the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam . Back in Europe, he began to write and produce radio features as a freelance writer for the Radio Austria 1 series Hörbilder .

Its radio feature Sold! ( ORF / SWR / WDR ) about four Uyghur men who were sold to the CIA as alleged terrorists and imprisoned for four years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp , was awarded the feature prize of the Radio Basel Foundation in 2010 and published as an audio book.

Lerch writes for the Austrian newspapers Der Standard and Wiener Zeitung as well as for the Russian weekly magazine Ogonjok .

He is co-founder of the Vienna media office and in 2010 was co-editor of kaptransmissions of the multimedia web journal for the soccer World Cup in South Africa . Lerch lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.

Together with the award-winning radio play director Matthias Kapohl , Lerch produced “Bi-Normal” in 2015, one of the first binaural radio features for WDR and ORF . Using binaural technology, they were able to transfer audio into 3D space in order to create a crossover of radio play and feature in this way .

Lerch concluded his drug trilogy in autumn 2016 with the feature # illegaledrogentöten ( Deutschlandradio Kultur / ORF ). A television series that explores the effects of global anti-drug policy on countries that consume, transit and produce illegal drugs. For the first time, social media comments were included live in a broadcast in a radio feature.

For the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien , Lerch conceived and curated the podcast "six seasons", in which six pictures from the famous collection of paintings serve as raw material for fictional auditory storytelling (with Ann Cotten , Mark von Schlegell, Hanno Millesi , Yasaman Hasani, among others ). The podcast is about art communication and perception in the permanent exhibition of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien .

Awards

The radio feature # illegaledrogentöten was awarded the silver award at the international New York Festivals for the best radio programs in 2017.

For "Papa, we are in Syria" ( RBB / WDR ), Christian Lerch was awarded the European media prize Prix ​​Europa for the best European radio documentary 2017 in Berlin . The radio feature accompanies a father in search of his two sons who have joined the so-called Islamic State / DAESH in Syria .

• 2006 Hans Nerth - Scholarship for feature authors
• 2008 Åke Blomstroem Award from the European Broadcasting Union EBU
• 2010 nomination for the CNN Journalist Award
• 2010 nomination for the Dr.-Karl-Renner-Publizistikpreis
• 2010 Award for features from the Radio Basel Foundation
• 2011 nomination for the CNN Journalist Award
• 2011 nomination for the Dr.-Karl-Renner-Publizistikpreis
• 2014 Prix ​​Europa Investigative Radio Journalism 4th Prize
• 2017 Best audio documentation DOKKA (International Documentary Festival Karlsruhe)
• 2017 Prix ​​Europa Best European Radio Documentation 2017

Works

• Sold! ( Audio book ). Merian Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-85616-451-5 .
• Shine and ruin. The uncanny boom of the crystalline. Essay volume edited by Vitus H. Weh. Folio Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-85256-479-1 .
• Bi-normal. Bipolar border areas ( radio feature )
• Killing illegal drugs ( radio feature ), DLR / ORF, 2016
• Redeemer of the art market ( radio feature ), ORF / BR , 2018
• Anthropogen Schwarz ( radio feature ), DLF , 2019

Web links

• Multimedia Dossier Illegal Drugs Killing
• Deutschlandradio Wissen Contribution: Narco Corridos
• "Viva La Muerte" North Mexican drug ballads
• Feature Viva La Muerte on MDR
• Narcocorridos Feature Download on Swiss Radio 2 Kultur
• Prix ​​Europa 2014
• Bi-normal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sarah Murrenhoff: What racism has to do with each and every one of us. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur Magazin. Deutschlandfunk, December 1, 2019, accessed on December 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ name> it positive media ( memento of the original dated December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ kaptransmissions
4. ↑ Bipolar Boundaries - November 16, 2015 : Bi-Normal, by Christian Lerch and Irina Balzer ( Memento from November 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), feature
5. ^ Matthias Horn: Interview with Christian Lerch. Deutschlandradio Kultur, September 1, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. November 28, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 . 
7. ↑ World Best Radio Programs 2017. New York Festivals International Awards Group, June 21, 2017, accessed June 29, 2017 . 
8. ↑ PRIX EUROPA - Winners 2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; accessed on November 2, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Christian Lerch: "Papa, we are in Syria". January 1, 2017, accessed November 2, 2017 . 
10. ^ Hans Nerth - Grant for feature authors
11. ↑ Åke Blomstroem Award ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Winner audio documentation. In: press release. Südwestrundfunk SWR 2, June 7, 2017, accessed on June 29, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Cultural radio feature "Papa, we are in Syria" by Christian Lerch receives Prix Europa. Retrieved November 2, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Sold!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Splendor and corruption. The uncanny boom of the crystalline.
16. ↑ Das radiophone Klanglaboratorium , Radiofeature
17. ↑ Killing illegal drugs. Cocaine: Cultivation, Smuggling, and Profit. Alternatives to the failed prohibition war. Feature by Christian Lerch (DLR Kultur / ORF 2016)
18. ↑ oe1.orf.at: Treasures in the Geneva bonded warehouse | SA | 14 04 2018 | 9:05. Retrieved December 23, 2019 . 
19. ^ Anthropogenic Black. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur Feature. Deutschlandfunk, December 3, 2019, accessed on December 23, 2019 .