Career

Since April 2007
Anchor for the ORF Report Magazine „ Thema“

January 2007
Documentay about Natascha Kampusch as part of a THEMA Special Edition broadcast

December 2006
Second exclusive interview with Natascha Kampusch

September 2006
Exclusive interview with Natascha Kampusch

August 2006
Natascha Kampusch – Exclusive interview with her mother Brigitta Sirney

Summer 2006
Lecturer at the Professional School of Journalism in Vienna

April 2006
Documentary in remembrance of the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl

Dezember 2005
45 minute dramatized documentary about the terrorist attacks on OPEC in 1975

September 2005
Anchor of the three-part Series MYSTERY for ORF 2

2005
Since January again co-creative director and reporter for “Thema”

October 2002 - November 2004
Presenter for the ORF-broadcast “25 – das Magazin”

November 2002
Report about the execution of Robert Wlliam Jones, husband of Gerti Jones of Salzburg, at the high security prison in Potosi, US State of Missouri. This report was created for “Thema” and for “25- das Magazin”. Christoph Feurstein accompanied Gerti Jones for three years, from her wedding to Billy Jones to his execution. He witnessed the execution.

Dezember December 2001
Presentation of “Thema-Spezial” (special edition “Thema”) from New York, a broadcast dedicated to the events of September 11th.

2001
Official replacement for Barbara van Melle as anchor of “Thema”. He hosted the broadcast for the first time on February 5th 2001.

1999
Mr. Feurstein uncovers the sexual abuse of a severely mentally and physically disabled man by a priest at the House of Mercy, a catholic nursing home.

1997 - 2000
Editor and creator for “Thema”, the ORF’s socio-politic Broadcast. Media trainer for social workers, lectures on the subject of “Journalism and Social Work”.
Medientraining für Sozialarbeiter, Vorträge zum Thema "Journalismus und Sozialarbeit".

1996
Director for the ORF–youth broadcast “nitebox”; socio-politic contributions and documentaries for “nitebox”; production and creative direction of “City Guide” segments -- 30-minute documentaries about European capitals.

1995
Documentaries for the ORF broadcast series "e-motion". Idea, scrit and production for the series "Rollentausch" (Role Swap) in cooperation with Robert Altenburger.

1994
Segments and docummentaries for the ORF-youth program "X-Large"

1990 - 1995
Studies in German and Theatre History at the University of Vienna

1992 - 1994
Assistant Director for the theatre company "W.U.T."

1982 - 1990
Humanistic Gymnasium (High school with focus on old languages: Greek and Latin) in Bregenz

1978 - 1982
Elementary School in the village of Vandans

May 8th 1972
Born in Schruns, Montafon Valley (West-Austrian Province of Vorarlberg)