Florian Guthknecht

Florian Guthknecht (born September 19, 1969 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) is a German animal filmmaker , director and journalist .

Life

Guthknecht studied German and history in Augsburg and Florence . After completing his studies, he works as a freelance journalist and makes historical documentaries . He traveled to remote regions, especially Asia, and began to document the destruction of nature. In 1998 he documented coral death in the Maldives.

In 2002 he was the first non-Italian journalist who, together with the biologist and cameraman Christian Lott, received permission to film in the Montecristo nature reserve . After primarily historical documentaries were in the foreground of his work until 2003, Guthknecht has since devoted himself primarily to the underwater world. The year before, Guthknecht founded the company Flowmotion-Filmproduktion, which specializes in underwater films. In 2006 he traveled to China with the German cameraman Michael Boxrucker for Bayerischer Rundfunk to be the only western television team to document the extinction of the Chinese river dolphin . The two were the only television team to document a sad turning point in history: the Chinese river dolphin is the first mammal to become extinct not because of hunting, but because of the destruction of its habitat. His award-winning two-part Revolution am Reef , which describes the situation of dying coral reefs , also caused an international stir . In 2015 and 2016 he spent several months on the Caribbean islands for the multi-part Die Karibik for ARD and Arte.

Guthknecht has taught at the University of Augsburg and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences since 2007 . He worked as a freelance journalist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the evening newspaper .

Awards

His first 43-minute animal documentary "Jellyfish - terrible beauties" for ARTE and Bavarian television won the Golden Palm at the 2005 mondial de l'image sous-marine festival in Antibes and was also awarded at European nature film festivals. Guthknecht's documentaries received more than 50 international film awards, including the environmental award at the Science Film Festival in Bangkok for "Sawfish - Neptune's Forgotten Children", "Best Story" at the Festival mondial de l'image sous-marine in Marseille for "Revolution on the Reef", best environmental film at the Jahorina Film Festival and the Prize of the Youth Jury 2017 at the Green Screen Nature Film Festival . For his years of journalistic commitment, he was awarded the Bavarian State Medal for special services to the environment by the Bavarian Environment Minister Ulrike Scharf in 2016.

Filmography (selection)

• 1999: Paradise Lost? The coral death in the Maldives (ARD)
• 2001: The Tuscan Islands (ARD)
• 2001: Neptune's Destroyed Gardens: The Dying Corals (ARD)
• 2003: The Azores - Daughters of the Sea (ARD)
• 2003: Monte Christo - a treasure before looting (ARD)
• 2004: The riddle of the sea snakes (ARD)
• 2005: Pictures of a landscape: Elba (ARD)
• 2005: The four seasons underwater (ARD, ARTE)
• 2005: Jellyfish - Terrible Beauties (ARD, arte)
• 2006: Revolution on the reef - hope for the corals? (ARD, arte)
• 2006: Revolution on the Reef - Hope for the Fish? (ARD, arte)
• 2006: Sharks - rulers of the seas? (3SAT)
• 2006: Lord Howe Island - Paradise at the end of the world? (ZDF, arte)
• 2006: Life in floods (arte)
• 2007: The last white dolphin, 45 minutes (ARD, arte)
• 2007: The bleeding lake - expedition to the bottom of the Alatsee (ARD, arte)
• 2008: Basking Sharks - Gentle Giants (ARD, arte)
• 2008: The Azores - Paradise in Eternal Blue (ARD, arte)
• 2009: Sawfish - Neptune's Forgotten Children (ARD, arte)
• 2009: Monster in the lake? (ARD, arte)
• 2010: Beauty and the Shark - With Wolke Hegenbarth in South Africa (ARD, arte)
• 2010: Sharks - hunted hunters (ARD, arte)
• 2010: The fascination of knowledge: Warm lakes - global warming under water (ARD)
• 2011: Expedition 50 degrees - Canada (arte, ARD)
• 2011: Expedition 50 degrees - Atlantic (arte, ARD)
• 2011: Life at the Limit - Secrets of the Deep Sea (arte, ARD, ZDF Enterprises)
• 2011: The smile of the white whales (ARD)
• 2011: Fascination Dolphin (ARD)
• 2012: Big Things - Living with the Elephant Seals (ARD)
• 2012: The swarm or the big food (ARD)
• 2013: The farm of the dolphins (ARD)
• 2013: Monk seals - Poseidon's last children (ARD)
• 2013: Pilot whales in danger (ARD)
• 2013: Mediterranean expedition 5x45 min (arte, ARD, ORF)
• 2014: Han Solo - The Lonely Dolphin (ARD)
• 2014: The smartest turtle in the world (ARD)
• 2014: In the Sea of ​​Hunters (ARD)
• 2015: Boto - the Amazon Dolphin (ARD)
• 2016: Battle for Montecristo? (BR television, arte)
• 2016: Animal myths - The children of the pink river dolphin (BR TV, arte)
• 2016: The fascination of knowledge: The age of plastic (BR Fernsehen)
• 2017: The Caribbean: Hunters (ORF, arte, ARD)
• 2017: The Caribbean: whales and volcanoes (ORF, arte, ARD)
• 2017: The Kitz im Moos - Stories from the Ampermoos (BR TV)
• 2017: The return of the Danube brook (BR Fernsehen)
• 2018: Experience Bavaria: Around the Königssee (BR Fernsehen)
• 2018: Manatees on the move (arte, ARD)
• 2018: Myths im Grenzland (ARD)
• 2019: Wild Elba (arte, ARD)
• 2019: Invasion of the Little Robbers (arte, ARD)
• 2019: Servus Uli - a life for FC Bayern (FC Bayern TV)
• 2020: Black grouse - dancers in the moor (arte, ARD)
• 2020: The eagle owl - King of the Night (arte, ARD)
• 2020: Wonder tree pine (Servus TV)

Web links

• Florian Guthknecht in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Flowmotion film production | Home

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile of the Institute for Media and Educational Technology
2. ↑ programm.ARD.de - ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany: The Caribbean. Retrieved September 18, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Flowmotion film production | Vita , accessed on July 2, 2018.
4. ↑ Flowmotion film production | Vita , accessed on July 2, 2018.
5. ↑ Science Film Festival - - Goethe-Institut. Retrieved April 14, 2017 (English). 
6. ↑ FESTIVAL MONDIAL DE L'IMAGE SOUS-MARINE. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 24, 2005 ; Retrieved April 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Jahorina Film Festival - Početna. Retrieved April 14, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Prize winners & nominations . In: Green Screen Nature Film Festival . September 17, 2017 ( greenscreen-festival.de [accessed September 18, 2017]). Award winners & nominations ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Erding: Ulrike Scharf, Minister of State and Member of the State Parliament -. Retrieved April 14, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Tanja Fieber, Faszination Wissen, Planet Wissen, Bayerischer Rundfunk: Bavarian State Medal: High distinction for Florian Guthknecht | BR.de . October 25, 2016 ( br.de [accessed November 18, 2016]).
11. ^ Bavarian State Medal for Services to the Environment. In: stmuv.bayern.de. Retrieved November 18, 2016 .