Gernot Lercher
Gernot Lercher
MY LIFE STORY

Since the 1990s, Gernot Lercher has served as author and director for more than 50 international TV productions which have reached an audience of 20 million people and been shot all around the world.

born 14 February 1966 in Graz, Austria
author and director of documentary films.
1986–1990: journalist for Austrian Radio and Television (ORF)
1990 to 2020: director and scriptwriter (ORF)
Since 2020: Head of Natural History (ORF)

see a selection of his films below

TIMELINE
2020
Head of Natural History (ORF-Universum)
2020
Portugal – Wild Land On The Edge
2017
Universum History: Through the ages at Styria's border
2017
Sister Mary of Nairobi– Life in Africa's Largest Slum
2016
Universum: Europe's Last Nomads

New York Festival Awards 2x World Gold Medal

Nature & Wildlife and  Environment & Ecology

2016
The ones from the jungle

“Prälat -Leopold-Ungar -JournalistInnenpreis”  2016

Anerkennungspreis Kategorie TV

2015
South Styrian Wine Road
2014
Universum XL: Wild Frontiers - Austria´s Borderland
2013
Universum: Magic Mountains – Land of the champions
2012
Wolfgang Fuchs - Globetrotter of Photography
2010
Pathfinder of History
2009
The heartbeat of poverty – 10 years of St. Mary's Ambulance
2009
The Dachstein – Climbing the South Face of Styria's highest mountain
2005,2006
Powder 8 – World Championship in Deep Snow Skiing
2004
The Romans in Austria
2003
The Magic of the Lipizzans
2002
Kalachakra – The Dalai Lama in Graz
2002-2017
Aid under a good star - worldwide
2000
Luxury at High Sea
1999
A Styrian Night
1998
The USS George Washington in the Persian Gulf
1997
Arnold Schwarzenegger – Flashlights of an Outstanding Career
1996,1998,1999
Race Across America
1996
Emperor's Waltz on the Kilimanjaro
1995
Skijumping in New York City
1993
Triathlon in Alaska's Winter
1992
Football in Cameroon