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)