Angelika Gebhard

Angelika Gebhard (* as Angelika Zilcher in Tegernsee ) is a German author , filmmaker, circumnavigator and animal rights activist .

Life

Gebhard, granddaughter of the composer Hermann Zilcher , graduated from the Max Rill School in Reichersbeuern in Upper Bavaria. After completing a degree in education in Munich , she sailed around the world as far as Alaska for eight years together with her future husband - the one-handed circumnavigator Rollo Gebhard . In the end, there was a top sporting performance when they sailed non-stop in six months - without docking in a port - from Australia to Germany. After her return she became co-founder and deputy chairwoman of the " Society for the Rescue of Dolphins ", which aims to ban fishing with driftnets worldwide.

After the oceans she traveled European waterways by boat; at last she traveled with her own boat on the Volga to the mouth of the Caspian Sea. To this day, it is forbidden in Russia to travel on Russian inland waters with a foreign boat. The Gebhards camouflaged their boat with a Russian flag and stuck Russian registration letters on the ship's side at night. When they finally moored again in the port of Hamburg , they had covered over 15,000 kilometers through Russia and Europe.

Since 1996 she has been working with the Russian artist Andrey Alexander . Together they have published books and illustrated books about their travels through Russia and produced film documentaries for BR . Since 2007 she has been leading the “Pergamon-Life” project, in which Andrey Alexander reconstructs the east, north, south and west friezes of the Pergamon Altar in a photographic art restoration. In 2010, Edition Panorama published a calendar documenting the status of work at the time, which was awarded a silver medal at an international calendar competition in Baden-Württemberg . In a world premiere in 2013 in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow under the title "Giants against Gods - the second life of the Pergamon Altar", the complete photographic reconstruction was installed in a three-month exhibition at a length of 30 m and a height of 4 m. Over 300,000 visitors have visited this exhibition. Further exhibitions followed. 2015 in the Museum of Architecture in Moscow, 2016 Alushta, Crimea. 2017 as a German premiere in Munich, under the patronage of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art, in the Museum for Casts of Classical Images.

Book publications

• Volga trip - Russian way of life between Saint Petersburg and Odessa , Herbig;
• Around the world with Rollo - diary of my seven-year circumnavigation , Delius Klasing;
• With Rollo on an adventure course - search for traces in the Black Sea , Delius Klasing;
• Magic of the Volga - Adventures under the Russian Flag , Delius Klasing;

Film documentaries

• Adventure course : 3-part television series in coproduction with the BR about their trip with Rollo Gebhard and Andrey Alexander from Regensburg to the Caucasus
• Magic of the Volga : 5-part television series in coproduction with the BR about the first crossing of the Volga with your own boat
• Under a false flag : 2-part television series in co-production with BR.
• From Hamburg to Astrakhan and the Black Sea.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mark J. Palmer: International Marine Mammal Project - German dolphin defender turns 85 . earthisland.org. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
2. ↑ Angelika Gebhard - 2nd chairwoman. Society for the Rescue of Dolphins, accessed on September 27, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Photo restoration of the Pergamon Altar as a calendar: International recognition. Merkur.de, accessed on September 27, 2015 .