- Eugen Schuhmacher
Eugen Schuhmacher (actually Eugen Josef Robert Schuhmacher) (
August 4 ,1906 –January 8 ,1973 ) was a German zoologist and pioneer of animal documentaries. BesidesBernhard Grzimek andHeinz Sielmann he belongs to the German documentary filmmakers with an international reputation.Biography
Eugen Schuhmacher was born in
Stuttgart ,Germany . His career began in the early 1930s with educational and cultural shortfilms about the wildlife inSouth America and theGerman Reich . In the next four decades he made documentaries (feature length and shortfilms) about animals, the Inca culture, and theindigenous people fromNorth America , South America andPapua New Guinea . This movies were awarded at festivals in Berlin, Venice and in Cannes. His movie Natur in Gefahr (Nature in Danger) from 1952 is an alerting report of the destruction of the nature paradises and the extinction of species. His feature filmIn the Shadow of the Karakoram (Im Schatten des Karakorum) received the German Film Prize for best documentary in 1955. In 1958 he discovered the "German television" for his work and he made one of the first German television series about endangered species. 37 episodes of On the Track of rare Animals (Auf den Spuren seltener Tiere) were shot, a series which has taken the audience on a journey toGalapagos , Papua New Guinea,Africa , and other exotic places. This series was very popular in German television. In 1966 he finished his movie project , a film which had taken seven years to make. It was awarded at the Mountain Film Festival atTrento in 1967. Schuhmacher has died at age 66 of cancer inMunich ,Germany . His last movie Europas Paradiese (Europe's paradises) had its premiere after his death.elected movies
*1955: Im Schatten des Karakorum
*1967: The Last Paradises: On the track of Rare animals (Die letzten Paradiese)
*1973: Europas Paradieseelected 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, SchwitzerlandExternal links
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