ERHARDT Ágoston

International ecumenical jury 2017

An editor, director, scriptwriter and producer, Ágoston Erhardt (born in 1980) has been working in the Hungarian public television production for the past fourteen years. An M.A. graduate of the Department of Media and Communication of the University of Szeged, he worked as a journalist in parallel with pursuing his studies, and became editor-in-chief of a university newspaper. Before obtaining his degree he began working for Duna TV. Primarily in the area of religion, but also in news broadcasting and various factual genres and cultural programmes. After the transformation of the Hungarian public television in 2010 he worked as chief editor-producer for the Religious Programmes Department of Duna TV. Since 2015 he is chief editor of the Religious Programmes Department of MTVA (Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund). He makes mainly portrait and documentary programmes/films. He was the first awardee to receive the Sinkó Ferenc prize, granted by the Hungarian Catholic Association of the Press.