Education
Leach graduated from the University of Vienna, He studied at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Christian Lerch
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Lerch worked at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City. In 2006 he began working as a radio producer, author and director for radio art/documentaries for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF, the cultural channel Radio Österreich 1 and the German public broadcasting network WDR focusing on political and (popular-)culture topics. In 2009 he produced the radio documentary "Sold/Verkauft!" about four Uighur men who had been sold as suspected terrorists to the Central Intelligence Agency and imprisoned for four years at the prison camp Guantánamo Bay.
The radio documentary was published as an audio book in 2011.
Lerch created a three part series of radio programs on illegal drugs: "Crystal Methodist A homemade drug" (produced by the ORF 2007), "Apocalypse Goa" (a co-production of WDR/ORF 2010) and "Viva Louisiana Muerte.
The drug ballads of northern Mexico" (produced by the WDR/ORF 2012) are documentaries commissioned for broadcast in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Lerch occasionally writes and publishes for newspapers, including Der Standard, Wiener Zeitung and the Russian weekly magazine Ogoniok.
In 2014 Lerch is a fellow at the European Journalism Fellowships at the Freie Universität Berlin, researching surveillance and control of public urban spaces in Germany and in the United States.
Achievements
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Lerch received various awards, including the Award for ORF Journalists, and the Hans NerthRadio Scholarship. In the years 2010 and 2011 Christian Lerch was nominated for the Cable News Network Journalist Award and for the Austrian Journalism Prize, the Doctor Karl Renner Prize In the year 2010 he received the second prize of the FEATUREPREIS Award in Basel, Switzerland.
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Germany
Awards
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German Film Award for Best Screenplay Award in Basel, Switzerland; FIFA World Cup Lerch received various awards, including the Award for ORF Journalists, and the Hans Nerth- Radio Scholarship. In the years 2010 and 2011 Christian Lerch was nominated for the CNN Journalist Award and for the Austrian Journalism Prize, the Dr. Karl Renner Prize In the year 2010 he received the second prize of the FEATUREPREIS Award in Basel, Switzerland.German Film Award for Best Screenplay Award in Basel, Switzerland; FIFA World Cup Lerch received various awards, including the Award for ORF Journalists, and the Hans Nerth- Radio Scholarship. In the years 2010 and 2011 Christian Lerch was nominated for the CNN Journalist Award and for the Austrian Journalism Prize, the Dr. Karl Renner Prize In the year 2010 he received the second prize of the FEATUREPREIS Award in Basel, Switzerland.