Cornelia Canady

Maria Cornelia Canady (* 1942 in Berlin ) is a German author .

According to her own statements, Cornelia Canady worked as an assistant director for various television stations / feature films from 1968 to 1978. From 1979 to 1989 she worked as a film editor and film archivist in the human ethological archive of Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology . In the early 1990s Canady documented the life of the Central African pygmies , wrote articles for various magazines and published a film about the Aka pygmies who lived in the Stone Age. Canady stayed in Africa for about 15 years , including a. as director of the Doli Lodge in Bayanga in cooperation with the WWF Bangui . Since then she has been committed to the pygmies of the Central African Republic . She wrote several books based on her experiences in Africa.

From 2001 she was foreign language secretary at the Institute for Bioinformatics (IBI) of the GSF - Research Center for Environment and Health . She has lived in Tenerife since 2007.

Works

• Tears on the Oubangui . 2000 (novel)
• Africa my love . 2002 (reader)
• The god dancer. My life with the pygmies. 2002 (non-fiction book)
• Call of the evening wind: The dark magic of Africa . 2005 (novel)
• Aka pygmies: the last of their kind . 2000 (knowledge on video)
• M'Batánga: Journey to happiness. 2015 (novel, E Pub)

Web links

• Literature by and about Cornelia Canady in the catalog of the German National Library