Andreas Kieling

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Andreas Kieling (2019)

Andreas Kieling (born November 4, 1959 in Gotha ) is a German documentary filmmaker , film producer and author with a focus on nature, animal and adventure topics.

Life

According to his own statements, Andreas Kieling fled the GDR via Czechoslovakia and Austria to West Germany in 1976 at the age of 16 and was shot at by a border guard while swimming across the Danube . He was shot in the back. In West Germany he hired from 1977 to 1980 as a seaman for overseas trips on German merchant ships. From 1980 to 1983 he trained as a professional hunter in various North German forestry offices , especially in the Lanze and Lomitz districts in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district . Between 1986 and 1990 Kieling undertook long professional stays abroad: in 1988 a year as a forest consultant in the People's Republic of China and in 1989 six months in India and Pakistan .

In 1991 he began his career as a documentary filmmaker . He has been traveling to Alaska since 1992 ; on every trip he faced a special challenge. Kieling described his experiences in several books. Most recently, he explored the Yukon over 3000 kilometers in length from its source to its mouth in the Bering Sea . This trip resulted in a three-part documentary that was shown on ARD in January 2007 . On the middle stage of his journey, the animal filmmaker was accompanied by his wife Birgit and his two sons Erik and Thore. They followed in the tracks of the prospectors, filmed moose with their calves, explored abandoned camps for adventurers and the wreck of a paddle steamer. The third episode, Adventure Yukon - The Long Road to the Arctic Ocean , received the Panda Award at the Wildscreen Festival in Bristol in October 2008 .

In May 2008 and May 2011, ZDF showed the three-part series Expeditions to the Last of their Kind , not to be confused with the BBC television series The Last of their Kind (series 1989, book 1990, series 2009) by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine . In 2009, Andreas Kieling went on a hike across Germany for the ZDF / Arte production Mitten im Wild Deutschland. He followed the Green Belt along the former death strip . At the beginning of June 2010 his five-part series Mitten in South Africa was broadcast in HDTV on Arte . It describes the host country of the 2010 soccer World Cup.

On January 3, 2015, Andreas Kieling had a breakdown with temporary blindness after an event in Chemnitz. The examinations revealed a heavily bleeding pituitary adenoma . Andreas Kieling is married, has two sons and lives on a farm in Hümmel in the Eifel . The actor Wolfgang Kieling was his great-uncle.

Positions

With a video from July 14, 2016, Kieling was critical of wind energy and its operators. He shows some dead birds and two dead bats and says that the wind turbine towering behind him killed these animals within a very short time. He also came to the conclusion that proponents of wind power had dismantled two black stork nests in the area in order to prevent conservationists from objecting to the further expansion of the wind farm . The Facebook video was viewed over 500,000 times and shared around 10,000 times within three days by July 17, 2016.

Jan Fleischhauer , Karsten Schwanke , Katharina Schulze , Sandra Maischberger , Carina Konrad , Andreas Kieling and Ronald Rocher (from left to right) at Maischberger (2019)

On the Maischberger broadcast , Kieling explained that the regulation of the wolf takes place by itself through the predator-prey relationship . Nature regulates itself in its own way. Carina Konrad from the FDP questioned the study on insect mortality, Kieling disapproved.

criticism

Kieling received criticism in April 2012 for the ZDF documentary Kielings Wildes Deutschland , after it became known that he passed off wolfhounds for wolves in it. Kieling commented on this in a video on its website.

In August 2016, Kieling dealt critically with the total herbicide glyphosate in a video message on his Facebook page . As a result, various von Kieling's statements were criticized as technically incorrect. He was also accused of using a fuel canister as a glyphosate canister in the video, as its red signal effect could better convey his message. Andreas Kieling responded to the criticism in another video message, but defended his statements as justified "in order to point out grievances".

Honors

Kieling received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in October 2015 for his many years of work as a wildlife filmmaker and the associated public relations work .

Filmography

  • 2004: The Tree of Trees - Mysterious Oak Life (camera, together with Roland Gockel)
  • 2004: The Bear Man - Father and Son among Gryzzlys in Alaska
  • 2005: Europe: A Natural History - A New Millennium
  • 2005: Europe: A Natural History - Taming the Wild
  • 2005: Profession: animal filmmaker
  • 2007: Adventure Yukon - The long way to the Arctic Ocean
  • 2008: Kieling - Expeditions to the Last of their Kind (camera, together with Luana Carina Knipfer), three parts, ZDF
  • 2009: Andreas Kieling - In the middle of wild Germany (documentation in five parts), ZDF / Arte
  • 2010: Andreas Kieling - In the Middle of South Africa (documentation in five parts), ZDF / Arte
  • 2012: Kielings wildes Deutschland (documentary in two parts), ZDF
  • 2014: Kielings wilde Welt (documentary with eight episodes in three seasons), ZDF / Arte
  • 2015: Kielings kalte Welt (documentary in two parts), ZDF / Arte
  • 2016: Kielings Wildes Afrika, ZDF / Arte

Publications

Andreas Kieling at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2015)
  • with Irena Bischoff: Yukon River Saga. Zurich 1995. New edition: Yukon River Saga. Canoeing through Canada and Alaska. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-17818-1 .
  • with Irena Bischoff: Ussuri tiger. Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85833-257-7 .
  • In the realm of the giant bears. Andreas Kieling on the way to the last big bears of Alaska. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09545-2 .
  • with Simone Kosog: The Bear Man. Father and son among grizzlies in Alaska. From the ARD series "Expeditions into the Animal Kingdom". Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-09469-4 .
  • with Sabine Wünsch: bears, salmon, wild water. As a young family through Canada and Alaska. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89029-284-7 .
  • with Sabine Wünsch: A German hiking summer. 1400 kilometers through our wild homeland. Malik im Piper Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89029-393-6 .
  • with Sabine Wünsch: Through wild Germany. From the Alps to the Wadden Sea. Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89029-415-5 .
  • My expeditions to the last of their kind. Piper Taschenbuch, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-30627-0 .
  • with Sabine Wünsch: Under the spell of the bears. My life in Alaska. Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86690-440-8 .
  • with Kilian Schönberger: Longing for the forest. Mysterious habitats in Germany. National Geographic Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86690-477-4 .

literature

  • Philip Bauens: Nature is doing better than many think . 4-seasons, 2012, p. 52–59 (interview in customer magazine Globetrotter gear ).
  • Stefan Locke: The bears are not your friends: lonely child, cyclist, GDR refugee, sailor, hunter, animal filmmaker: Andreas Kieling's adventurous life , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 25, 2012, page 49, online

Web links

Commons : Andreas Kieling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the fur | 4-Seasons.de - The portal for globetrotters. In: 4-seasons.de. www.4-seasons.de, accessed on February 27, 2016 .
  2. ^ Paul Parey Zeitschriftenverlag GmbH: Prominent hunters: Andreas Kieling Interview - DEUTSCHE JAGDZEITUNG - the online hunting magazine. In: djz.de. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ andreas-kieling.de: On the Mend, February 14, 2015
  4. ^ Andreas Kieling in the Eifel. Retrieved January 21, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Stefan Locke: Documentary filmmaker Andreas Kieling The bears are not your friends . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 24, 2012, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net ).
  6. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/Andreas.Kieling/ , accessed on July 17, 2016
  7. ↑ "That someone like that is allowed to be in a party": nature filmmaker rages against FDP women. FOCUS Online , accessed on March 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Berliner-Kurier.de: Cheeky wolf forgery: ZDF now praises improvement | Berliner-Kurier.de. In: berliner-kurier.de. Berliner-Kurier.de, accessed on February 27, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Question about wolf hybrids - Andreas Kieling - animal filmmaker and adventurer. In: andreas-kieling.de. www.andreas-kieling.de, accessed on February 27, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Andreas Kieling, video message on glyphosate, August 8, 2016 , no longer available (as of August 30, 2016)
  11. ↑ topagrar.com: Andreas Kieling: Dead Landscapes through Glyphosate, August 9, 2016
  12. ↑ schillipaeppa.net: The Kieling'sche canister affair, August 11, 2016
  13. ↑ Andreas Kieling, video message on glyphosate, August 12, 2016
  14. ↑ Arno Widmann: The staging of the beauty of a society. The Federal President honors 15 men and 17 women with the Federal Cross of Merit - including artists, churchmen and civil rights activists . In: Berliner Zeitung , 2./3./4. October 2015, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Kieling, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wildlife filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha