Gerald Lehner (Journalist)

Gerald Lehner ( born November 12, 1963 in Bad Gastein) is an Austrian journalist, author, filmmaker and photographer.

Gerald Lehner studied political science, communication and education in Salzburg; after completing his training as a mechanical engineer. He is a biographer of the Austro-American philosopher Leopold Kohr. Since 1986, Lehner works full-time as a radio and television reporter and since 2002 as editor of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ( ORF). Emigration research in the U.S. and Canada. Contributions to international newspapers and magazines; inter alia profile, Der Standard, Die Zeit and Der Spiegel. Reports from Kurdistan, the Himalayas, North America, West Africa and the Arctic Siberia. Writer and filmmaker; longer productions for television. Consultant and performer in the British television film Climbing for the Fatherland (directed by Kevin Sim, Audrey Salkeld ); among other things, with Reinhold Messner, Joe Simpson, Heinz Zak, Heinrich Harrer.

Lehner's nominations at film festivals:

Trent / Trento ( Italy ) for the TV movie How skiing has come to America and Avignon ( France), New York City, Port Townsend / Seattle ( Washington State ), Eugene ( Oregon) and Anchorage ( Alaska) - for documentation Jazz on a winters day (2007) - together with the Austrian filmmaker Sven Jansel.

His passion as a climber realized Lehner earlier also - as technicians and teachers - in Nepal for development aid organization " Eco Himal ". He is a volunteer mountain rescue teams and specialist consultant for public relations of the Federal Association of the Austrian Mountain Rescue Service.

Publications

  • The biography of the philosopher and economist Leopold Kohr. Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize. Deuticke, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-216-30107-9.
  • Egon Ranshofen - Wertheimer and Leopold Kohr. The Washington Post against the Nazis. In: Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance. Yearbook 1995.
  • Between Hitler and Himalaya. The lapses in memory of Heinrich Harrer. Czernin, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7076-0216-8. ( Review by Horst Christoph in the news magazine "profil" )
Joe Simpson (mountaineer) Right Livelihood Award Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Integrated Authority File
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