Curt Cappel

Curt Cappel (born July 13, 1944 in Obersarten , Schwetz district , † March 4, 2014 in Minden ) was a German animal and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Cappel grew up in Minden and Wiehl in Oberberg . In 1963 he went to Australia , where he made several industrial films and a documentary about a luxury liner's voyage around the world. From 1970 to 1981 he worked as a cameraman for Heinz Sielmann and his TV series "Expeditions into the Animal Kingdom".

In the early 1980s he went into business for himself and settled in Minden in 1982. He produced numerous animal and documentary films for television, teaching and school, both in the native nature and in the South Seas.

He wrote and photographed for numerous daily newspapers, magazines and magazines. In 1990 he wrote the book "Nocturnal Animals Overheard with the Camera". In the last years of his life he mainly gave lectures in schools and retirement homes.

Fonts

• Nocturnal animals - overheard with the camera . Landbuch, Hannover 1990, ISBN 3-7842-0436-8 .

Films (selection)

• Bush dwellers of Australia 1 + 2 (1969)
• Rats in the South Seas Paradise (1980)
• Planning Victims Otter & Co (1983)
• Old apartments in the forest (1983)
• No Room for Moorhen & Co. (1985)
• On foot through the South Seas / Reef March on Rangiroa (1986)
• Raccoons, aliens in our forests (1986)
• Where the Badger Calls (1987)
• A year with badgers (1988)
• The raccoon dog (1988)
• Walking through the South Seas / Mountains of Tahiti (1990)
• Raccoons and Raccoon Dogs (1995)
• Nico set out to learn to survive (1997)
• The forest and its wonders (1999)
• One night in the Dachswald (2000)
• Moana, the dream island at the end of the world (2001)
• Secret lodgers (2001)
• South Seas: Dream Journey to the End of the World (2007)
• Raccoons Night (2007)

Web links

• www.curt-cappel-film.de
• (lkp): Curt Cappel made animal films around the world - obituary: documentary filmmaker died. In: Mindener Tageblatt . March 19, 2014, p. 5.