Personal Awards 
✧ Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (2016)
✧ Decoration Of Merit in Gold to the State of Vienna (2012)
✧ Austrian State Award for Film Commercials (2008)
✧ Austrian People's Education TV Award (2001)
✧ Golden Romy for the most successful feature (2000, 1999, 1996)
✧ Erich Neuberg Director's Award (1999)

Miscellaneous 
/ founding & board member of the Austrian Film Academy (2009-19)
/ member of the development team, degree program "Film, TV & Media Production", University of Applied Sciences, Vienna (2011)
/ lecturer on "Film & Music", University For Music And Performing Arts, Vienna (1996–2002) 
/ founder, songwriter, bass player of the rock band Wiener Wunder (2 Gold Records, music for the feature films Müllers Büro and Muttertag, since 1980)
/ stage director, e.g. Zappzarapp (1987)
/ journalist for the "Neue AZ" (1982-86)

Trivia
/ Sicheritz' first feature Muttertag has repeatedly been voted Best Austrian Film Of All Time - e.g. by polls of Ö3 radio station (2012) and TV-Media magazine (2011)
/ Hinterholz 8 was voted Second Best Austrian Film Of All Time by the readers' of TV-Media magazine (2011)

Education
/ screenwriting workshops with Inga Karetnikova (1994-95)
/ seminar on film analysis with Krysztof Kieslowski (1994)
/ seminars on film directing with Lenore DeKoven at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles (1990-91)
/ thesis on "How does TV entertain?"), PhD (1983)
/ studies of communications and political science, University of Vienna (1976-82)
/ high school BRG 4 Waltergasse (1968-76)
/ primary school in Vienna's 10th district (1964-68)