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Gero von Boehm (born 20 April 1954 in Hanover; full name Kurt-Gero von Boehm-Bezing) is a German director, journalist and television presenter.




Life


Gero von Boehm grew up in Heidelberg and studied law and social studies at the Heidelberg University and in New York City. When he was 20 years old he started writing articles for the weekly paper Die Zeit and others. Later he had been working for the radio station of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the Südwestfunk and the Deutschlandfunk. He filmed his first documentary for television in 1975. In 1978 he founded the film production company interscience film along with his wife Christiane, who is in charge of finances, production and administration.
In addition to his television projects Gero von Boehm kept interviewing great personalities for his series Wortwechsel for Südwestfunk. Among them were the historian Golo Mann (1989) and banker Alfred Herrhausen (1989). From 2002 to 2010 he presented the show Gero von Boehm meets... on German broadcaster 3sat. In 2011 he founded the film production company LUPA Film.
Gero von Boehm has three children and lives in Berlin and France.




Filmography


More than 100 documentaries for ARD, ZDF, ARTE, France 3, RAI, Sundance Channel (selection):




Books


Odyssee 3000 – Reisen in die Zukunft, Munich: C. Bertelsmann, 1998, ISBN 3-570-00268-3.
Das Haus des Malers. Balthus im Grand Chalet, Fotografien von Kishin Shinoyama. Mit einem Vorwort von Gero von Boehm. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2000, ISBN 3-88814-618-6.
Conversations with I.M. Pei. Light is the Key, Munich: Prestel, 2000, ISBN 3-7913-2176-5.
Mythos Kennedy, Munich: Collection Rolf Heyne, 2003, ISBN 3-89910-214-2.
Wer war Albert Einstein? E=mc², Munich: Collection Rolf Heyne, 2005, ISBN 3-89910-251-7.
Unterwegs in der Weltgeschichte – mit Hape Kerkeling. Hörbuch. Munich: Random House, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8371-0773-9.
Begegnungen. Menschenbilder aus drei Jahrzehnten, Munich: Collection Rolf Heyne, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89910-443-1.
Nahaufnahmen. Fünfzig Gespräche mit dem Leben, Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-549-07476-3.




Awards


1980 Wilhelmine-Lübke-Preis
1991 Television Award by Hartmannbund
1993 Bavarian TV Award
1993 Award by the Eduard Rhein Foundation (with Ernst Waldemar Bauer)
2016 Bert-Donnepp-Award
2017 Steiger Award
2019 Bavarian TV Award in the category culture and education as producer and director for Exodus? A history of the Jews in Europe
Chevalier des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic
Gero von Boehm is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in New York.




References






External links


Gero von Boehm at IMDb
Literature by and about Gero von Boehm in the German National Library catalogue
production company by Gero von Boehm
portrait of Gero von Boehm

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