Christoph Jorg
Commissioning Editor, ARTE France
30 Minutes with Christoph Jorg, ARTE France
Programmers Show & Tell: History

Christoph Jörg is a senior commissioning executive in the Arte France Specialist Factual department handling History, Science, Religion and Sport ideas. He is in charge of international development and international coproductions.

Before he worked in the Thematic Evening Department of Arte France and ZDF/ Arte. He was supervising more than 200 thematic evenings on various topics, a series of factual entertainment programs and Specials.

He was previously working as a journalist for different german newspapers and as news reporter for ZDF.

He won numerous awards for the films he commissioned and works currently as a consultant, teacher and professional support for various international media programmes.

He is board member of "Steps International", a non profit organization which opens up new ways of commissioning and making films around the world. "Steps international" was set up in 2004 as an extension of the work of "Steps for the future" and is currently developing a ten part series on Democracy.