Andreas Moser (biologist)

Andreas Moser

Andreas Moser (born May 20, 1956 in Basel ) is a Swiss biologist , animal filmmaker and television presenter . In Switzerland he is known as the presenter of the NETZ Natur program . Moser holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich .

Life

Andreas Moser was born the first of two children. Through his parents, he came into contact with nature at an early age and, above all, with the nearby Basel Zoo . He attended the schools in Basel, he often spent his free time with the animals at Basel Zoo and helped the animal keepers with their work. During a class camp in 1972, he and his colleague Jürg Böni examined the amphibian and reptile fauna in Ticino and deepened this work in the summer of 1973. For this they received the rating "excellent" in the Jugend forscht competition and took second place in the European Philips Contest for Young Scientists and Inventors . In 1975, Andreas Moser passed the Matura after eight years of high school .

He then began studying biology at the University of Basel in 1975 , while at the same time continuing his field studies on reptiles. In 1976 he began to work under the direction of Thierry A. Freyvogel as a scientific assistant and head of laboratory in the poison animal laboratory of the Swiss Tropical Institute , where he was responsible for keeping tropical poisonous animals. Together with the tropical medical emergency service, he built the largest European antivenin depot and a 24-hour advice service for poisonous animal emergencies . After working for a short time as a science journalist, Andreas Moser was recruited in 1987 by Ruth Halter, who was editor-in-chief of the Karussell show, to produce reports and animal reports.

After the program was discontinued in 1988, Andreas Moser came to the science department of Menschen Technik Wissenschaft (MTW) ​​under the direction of Peter Lippuner. He developed the concept for the program NETZ Natur , of which Andreas Moser has been the moderator since 1989 and editor in charge since 1993. For this work, which made him known in Switzerland, he received several prizes, such as the 1991 East Switzerland TV Prize and in 2001 the Nature and Environmental Protection Prize of the Zurich Zoological Society . To this day, Andreas Moser moderates the program.

Publications

• Expedition Frosch, the researcher's book for animal observation at ponds, brooks and lakes , edited by Andreas Moser, with Alex Labhardt a. a., illustrations by Thomas Reiss a. a. Aare, Solothurn 1980, ISBN 3-7260-0196-4 .
• Investigation of a population of adder (Vipera berus L.) with the help of radio telemetry BSBS, Basler Schnelldruck Schlattmann, Basel 1988, DNB 945402449 , OCLC 75624458 , (dissertation University of Basel 1988, 152 pages).

TV productions

• Nature in the house, pests; Insects in the house. (= Network: report from nature ), director: Urs Bernhard, DVD, 65 minutes. Schweizer Fernsehen, Zurich 1990 OCLC 729807378 Recording of the broadcast by the television station SF 1 in German on September 13th. The documentary was produced in color in Switzerland in 1990. Moderation: Andreas Moser.
• Netz Natur - Turtles: The Charm of Age (= DOK ), DVD, Swiss TV , Zurich 2015, recording (50 minutes) of the broadcast by the TV station SRF 1 on April 16, 2015, in Swiss German and Italian. The documentary was produced in color in Switzerland in 2015. OCLC 909307515 .

Web links

• Lausation and short bio for an honorary doctorate for Andreas Mosers from the University of Zurich .
• NETZ Natur's website at srf.ch.