Director Sergi Schaaff receives the Saint George's Cross

Creator and director of 'Saber y Ganar' receive this award that the Generalitat of Catalonia grants to those who have stood out for their work in the civic and cultural field.

This Tuesday, director Sergi Schaaff receives the Creu de Sant Jordi, an award that the Generalitat of Catalonia grants to someone who has stood out for their work in the civic and cultural field. Tomorrow 27 people and 15 entities will receive this distinction, one of the highest recognitions granted in Catalonia.

Currently, Sergi Schaaff is the director of Know and Win, the contest presented by Jordi Hurtado with the longest run on the air and with great acceptance on La 2. He has also been director of TVE Catalonia Programs and director of many spaces on TVE.

Sergi Schaaff began his professional career in the 60s in Spanish Television, at the Miramar studios in Montjüic. Among the programs in which he has participated are Here the second program (1966 ), The road is for everyone (1967), or some of the adaptations of the dramatic space Novel. To disconnect in Catalan from TVE, it launched such emblematic spaces as the children's Land of escudella (1977) o Fiesta with Rosa Maria Sardà (1979).

Later he also signed television hits such as the contest If I know I won't come, presented by Jordi Hurtado, time is money led by Constantino Romero, or A particular story, 3×4 y the moon, by Julia Otero. In 1997 he premiered Know and Win on La 2, an idea of ​​his for which he once again entrusted the presentation to Jordi Hurtado.

Sergi Schaaff has received numerous awards, among others an Ondas in 1979 for the direction of Salome, version by Terenci Moix performed by Nuria Espert.

Schaaff has a degree in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and until 2004 he was Dean of Audiovisual Communication Studies at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona.