Since 1990, Michael has produced over 45 documentaries, TV doc series and feature films, among them internationally successful and highly-awarded films, such as Luna Papa (Bakhtiar Khoudojnazarov), Bella Martha (Sandra Nettelbeck), The Venice Syndrome (Andreas Pichler), Everyday Rebellion (The Riahi Brothers) and A Good American (Friedrich Moser, Executive Producer Oliver Stone). He wrote the scripts for several documentaries (i.e. Food Design, Hot Spot, BEER!, ÒRAIN – Beethoven), and directed TV documentaries such as the Vienna episode of the TV-series Food Markets. In the Belly of the Cities, which has been sold worldwide. From 2009–2020 Michael worked as a tutor and adviser for the European MEDIA training program for script development SOURCES 2.
Since 2018 he has concentrated almost exclusively on his work as a director and writer for his own documentaries (i.e. most recently ÒRAIN – Beethoven for WDR, ARTE, BBC etc.). He is currently preparing to shoot his feature documentary, Forbidden Music (CAN, ITA, AUT). His awards include the Theodor Koerner Award for Literature (1987) and the Austrian Film Award for Best Documentary (2013). Michael lives in Vienna, and is a member of the European Film Academy and the Austrian Film Academy.
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