Eugen Schuhmacher
Eugen Schuhmacher | |
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| Born | Eugen Josef Robert Schuhmacher 4 August 1906 |
| Died | 8 January 1973 (aged 66) |
| Years active | 1933–1973 |
Eugen Schuhmacher (actually Eugen Josef Robert Schuhmacher) (4 August 1906 – 8 January 1973) was a German zoologist and pioneer of animal documentaries. Besides Bernhard Grzimek and Heinz Sielmann he belongs to the German wildlife documentary filmmakers with an international reputation.
Biography
Eugen Schuhmacher was born in
Galapagos, Papua New Guinea, Africa, and other exotic places. This series was very popular in German television. In 1966 he finished his movie project The Last Paradises: On the Track of Rare Animals, a film which had taken seven years to make. It was awarded at the Mountain Film Festival at Trento in 1967. Schuhmacher has died at age 66 of cancer in Munich, Germany
. His last movie Europas Paradiese (Europe's paradises) had its premiere after his death.
He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award in 1971.[1]
Selected movies
- 1955: Im Schatten des Karakorum
- 1967: The Last Paradises: On the Track of Rare Animals (Die letzten Paradiese)
- 1973: Europas Paradiese
Selected books
- 1968: The Last of the Wild: On the track of Rare animals (with Gwynne Vevers ; Winwood Reade), Collins, London, 1968
- 1968: The Last Paradises: On the track of Rare animals, DOUBLEDAY & CO, INC. New York
- 1970: Alaska: Vast Land on the Edge of the Arctic (with Heinrich Gohl), Kümmerly & Frey Geographical Publishers, Berne, Switzerland
References
- ^ "Medals and Awards" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
External links
- Eugen Schuhmacher at IMDb
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