Trips to hell
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Trips to hell |
| Original title | Trips to hell |
| Country of production | 1998-2000 |
| original language | German |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 14 in 3 seasons |
| genre | documentary |
| camera |
Lars Barthel Peter Zeitlinger Roland Breitschuh Chris Hall Michael Kern Wolfgang Knochell Ulrich Krafzik André Götzmann Beatrice Mayer |
| First broadcast | April 26, 1998 on ZDF |
Höllenfahrten was the name of a series of reports in the Terra X series from 1998 to 2000, which was first broadcast on ZDF . It had 14 episodes of 45 minutes each.
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Dramatic events in maritime and aviation history were presented with documentary photos and film recordings. The speakers were the actors Christian Brückner and Tilly Lauenstein .
For the episode Titanic der Luefte - The Hindenburg's Last Voyage , there were numerous contemporary witnesses who had their say. Werner Doehner (born March 14, 1929 in Darmstadt ; † November 8, 2019 in Laconia (New Hampshire) ), Werner Franz, Eduard Boëtius and Emilie Imhof, who survived the crash of the Die Hindenburg , share their impressions, as does Herbert Morrison , who experienced and documented the crash as a reporter on site.
Episode list
| No. | title | description | Director | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shipwreck on the Skeleton Coast | A report on the death strip on the west coast of Africa and the fate of the "Dunedin Star". | Apr 26, 1998 | |
| 2 | The ice cold dream | About the fatal balloon flight of Salomon Andrée , Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg over the Arctic in 1897. | Günther Klein | May 3, 1998 |
| 3 | Escape from Laos | About the escape of US pilot Dieter Dengler from captivity in North Vietnam in 1966. | Werner Herzog | May 10, 1998 |
| 4th | Mutiny on the "Batavia" | About the shipwreck of the Batavia in 1629. |
Christian Twente Martin Papirowski |
May 17, 1998 |
| 5 | Disaster at the Devil's Gate | About the Mormon treks in 1856, according to Elisabeth Camm's diaries. |
Jens-Peter Behrend Eike Schmitz |
May 24, 1998 |
| 6th | Devil's Ride on God's Highway - Adventure in the footsteps of David Livingstone | About David Livingstone's journey to Africa along the Zambezi in 1855. | Tina Radke-Gerlach | June 7, 1998 |
| 7th | Lost in the Grand Canyon | About the crossing of the Grand Canyon by John Wesley Powell's team between 1869 and 1870. | Wolfgang Ebert | Feb 14, 1999 |
| 8th | The search for the sources of the Nile | About Samuel and Florence Baker's search for the sources of the Nile in 1863. | Luise Wagner | Feb 21, 1999 |
| 9 | Emergency landing in the crocodile bay | About the emergency landing of Hans Bertram and Adolf Klausmann with the plane Atlantis in Northern Australia in 1932. | Ray Muller | 7th Mar 1999 |
| 10 | SOS in the polar sea | About Tony Bullimore's shipwreck in 1997. | Ray Muller | 14 Mar 1999 |
| 11 | Titanic der Luefte - The last ride of the Hindenburg | About the disaster of the Hindenburg airship in 1937. | Peter Bardehle | May 28, 2000 |
| 12 | Drama in the north face of the Eiger | About the struggle for survival of mountaineers Thomas Burger and Holger Wendel on the Eiger North Face in 1983. | Gerhard Baur | Apr 6, 2000 |
| 13 | Heroes saga in the Arctic Ocean | About the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and the endurance expedition from 1914 to 1917. | Georg Graffe | June 11, 2000 |
| 14th | Sturmfahrt 2000 - Arved Fuchs: Living for adventure | About a research trip in the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton in 2000. | Christian Schidlowski | Aug 3, 2000 |
Web links
- Höllenfahrten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hell rides at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hell trips: information about the television series
- ^ Anna Sturla, Dakin Andone: The last survivor of the Hindenburg disaster has died, family says. In: CNN . November 17, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .
- ^ Obituary for Werner G. Doehner. In: http://wmur.tributes.com . Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Hell rides at Internet Movie Database , accessed May 7, 2015.