Beate Kammler
Beate Kammler (born August 29, 1943 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; maiden name Beate Bade ) is a German sailor, journalist and translator.
Life
Beate Kammler was born as the daughter of the doctor Gunter Bade and his wife Ursula. She passed her Abitur in Delmenhorst , then studied German and sports at the Free University of Berlin and in Kiel . There she made her first sailing experiences and acquired the A license . After moving to the University of Education in Berlin, she passed the exam as a primary school teacher. In Berlin she met her future husband, the engineer Peter Kammler, whom she married in 1967. Together they prepared for a circumnavigation of the world. In 1969 Beate Kammler passed her second state examination, and in 1970 she gave up teaching. The Kammlers sailed around the world from 1970 to 1974. During the trip several newspaper reports appeared, and after her return Beate Kammler published the travel report Come on, we're sailing around the world . The marriage with Peter Kammler was divorced, and Beate Kammler married Uwe-Jens Zimmermann. The couple live in Berlin and Granada .
Circumnavigation
The Kammler circumnavigated the world on the Mauna Kea , a Nicholson 38 , built by the English shipyard Camper & Nicholsons with hull number 26. During the summer vacation in 1969, they transported the ketch from England to Mallorca . From May 1970 the couple sailed to the Caribbean via Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands . While they returned to Germany themselves, the Mauna Kea stayed in the Caribbean. From autumn 1971 they continued their journey from the Caribbean through the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands . They sailed on to the Marquesas and via Tahiti to Australia . There they stayed mostly in Sydney for six months . Peter Kammler went in this time as a crew on the Salacia the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 1972. They traveled on along the northwest coast to Bali , Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands . The route was supposed to lead back into the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal , but the closure caused by the Six Day War prevented this. The land passage with a truck from Eilat on the Red Sea through Israel , which other yachts took, seemed too daring to Kammler. They sailed to Durban , South Africa , where they again stayed longer. From there it was about the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Town , Luanda and from there non-stop in 46 days on the Atlantic north to Ponta Delgada in the Azores . Finally they returned to Mallorca, where they handed over the already sold Mauna Kea to the new owner.
During the circumnavigation, they met Bobby and Carla Schenk, among others .
Fonts
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Come on, let's sail around the world , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1975 and more often, ISBN 3-7688-0211-6
- French translation: Viens faire le tour du monde sur mon joli bateau , Éditions France-Empire, Paris 1977
Translations
- Mike Saunders: The Walkabouts: Ocean trip with kids and cones , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1976, ISBN 3-7688-0233-7
- David Lewis: Ice bird: Einhand in Eis und Sturm , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1977, ISBN 3-7688-0256-6
- Naomi James: Me and the Ocean , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1977, ISBN 3-7688-0310-4
- Naomi James: An Land und auf See , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1981, ISBN 3-7688-0367-8
- Tristan Jones : Trapped in the Ice: Alone on an Arctic Course , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1981, ISBN 3-7688-1268-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kammler, Beate: Come on, we're sailing around the world , Delius Klasing, 2nd edition, Bielefeld 1976, p. 235
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kammler, Beate |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zimmermann-Kammler, Beate (later name); Bade, Beate (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sailor, author and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt (Oder) |