Gero von Boehm | |
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 von Boehm in 2016 | |
| Born | 20 April 1954 |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation(s) | Director, journalist and television presenter |
Gero von Boehm (born 20 April 1954 in Hanover; full name Kurt-Gero von Boehm-Bezing) is a German director, journalist and television presenter.
Gero von Boehm grew up in Heidelberg [1] 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. [2] In 2011 he founded the film production company LUPA Film.
Gero von Boehm has three children and lives in Berlin and France.
More than 100 documentaries for ARD, ZDF, ARTE, France 3, RAI, Sundance Channel (selection):
Gero von Boehm is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in New York.
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