Christian Lerch

Christian Lerch (born 1978) is a journalist and radio documentary producer based in Vienna, Austria and Berlin, Germany.

Lerch graduated from the University of Vienna, He studied at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands

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 (pop-)culture topics. In 2009 he produced the radio documentary "Sold/Verkauft!" about four Uighur men who had been sold as suspected terrorists to the CIA 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 Meth. A homemade drug" (produced by the ORF 2007), "Apocalypse Goa" (a co-production of WDR/ORF 2010) and "Viva La Muerte. The drug ballads of northern Mexico" (produced by the WDR/ORF 2012) are documentaries commissioned for broadcast in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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