Frieder Sauer

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Frieder Sauer , actually Friedhelm Sauer (* 1934 in Essen ; † December 18, 2000 ), was a German biochemist , biologist and nature photographer .

Life

Studies and scientific work

Friedhelm Sauer was born in Essen in 1934 as one of three children of a pediatrician; the author and photographer Lothar Sauer is his older brother. After the war ended in 1945, the temporarily dispersed family reunited in Betzdorf , where the father opened a pediatric practice and Frieder attended high school. After graduating from high school in 1954, he began studying chemistry at the University of Marburg , which he completed in 1961 with a diploma examination. He then began working on a dissertation in Marburg, but it turned out to be so unsolvable that he gave it up after 5 years and got a lighter topic that he had already worked on in 1965 (The pH-Dependence of the Solubility of Phosphopyruvate Hydratase (Enolase) of rabbit muscle). In 1964 Sauer followed his supervisor, the biochemist Theodor Bücher , to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1967. rer. nat. received his doctorate. After completing his doctorate, he stayed in Munich, where he worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry and Physical Biochemistry with the electron microscope until 1974 . Joint publications with other scientists, including the plant physiologist Hans-Walter Heldt, date from this time .

Freelance nature photographer

According to his own statement, Sauer decided to become a nature photographer at the age of 24 and pursued this goal in his spare time during his student days. His first work with 27 of his photos was published in 1969, followed by several nature and travel guides, including the photo book The Eifel in Color . After the end of his work as a research assistant, he devoted himself entirely to this task. During the following eight years he traveled to countries in Europe, Africa and Asia on numerous excursions. During this time he was tremendously productive; In his autobiography, Sauer himself describes the period from 1974 to 1982 as The Golden Years .

Fauna publishing house

After his marriage to a woman from Cameroon , he gave up his travel activities in 1982 and from now on concentrated on self- publishing his recordings . In the same year he founded Fauna Verlag as a one-man business. Under the name Sauer's Nature Guide , he published 22 books, which he photographed himself, wrote and typed himself by hand. It was not until 1994 that another author's book, a work by Klaus Philipp, was included in the publishing program. In 2000, after Sauer's death, the Fauna-Verlag products were taken over by a Westphalian publisher with the same name in Nottuln , where some of the nature guide books are still available (as of spring 2011).

death

In 2000 Sauer fell seriously ill and died in December of the same year. He had just finished the manuscript for his autobiography The Odd Way . His photo archive with more than 200,000 pictures was taken over by a young photographer.

Works (selection)

  • Frieder Sauer: The pH-dependency of the solubility of phosphopyruvate hydratase (enolase) of rabbit muscle . Dissertation at the University of Marburg, 1965.
  • Frieder Sauer: birds photographed and filmed . Dr. Diener KG, Neumünster. 1969. 173 pp.
  • Friedhelm Sauer: Introductory textbook on biochemistry for physicians and biologists . Munich, JF Lehmanns Verlag . 1971. ISBN 3-469003-32-7 .
  • Frieder Sauer: Life and Survival of Insects . Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag , Munich. 1972. 146 p. 224 photos.
  • Frieder Sauer: The Eifel in Color from the Kosmos Nature Guide series . Kosmos-Verlag , Stuttgart. 1st edition 1975. 3rd edition 1986, ISBN 3-440050-12-2
  • Frieder Sauer: The odd way - memoirs of an animal photographer . With an afterword by Lothar Sauer . Fauna Verlag Nottuln. 2nd edition 2003. ISBN 3-935980-26-4

Sauer's nature guide

All works were published by Fauna Verlag, Karlsfeld :

  • Frieder Sauer: caterpillar and butterfly . 1982
  • Frieder Sauer: The most beautiful spiders in Europe . 1982
  • Frieder Sauer: Animals and plants in drops of water . 1982
  • Frieder Sauer: Nature photography with all its finesse . 1984
  • Frieder Sauer: bees, wasps and relatives . 1985
  • Frieder Sauer: African birds - recognized by color photos . 1985, ISBN 3-923010-05-2 .
  • Frieder Sauer: Native moths . 1985
  • Frieder Sauer, Jörg Wunderlich: The most beautiful spiders in Europe . 1985, ISBN 3-923010-03-6 .
  • Frieder Sauer: sea ​​plants, sea animals . 1987
  • Frieder Sauer: Flies and Mosquitoes . 1987
  • Frieder Sauer: water insects . 1988
  • Frieder Sauer: reptiles and amphibians in the Mediterranean area . 1989
  • Frieder Sauer: Notebook for bird watchers . 1989
  • Frieder Sauer: Bird nests . 1991.
  • Frieder Sauer: The most beautiful caterpillars . 1992
  • Frieder Sauer: Butterfly of Europe . 1992
  • Frieder Sauer: 600 beetles . 1993
  • Frieder Sauer: Mammals of Africa . 1993
  • Frieder Sauer: Orchids of Europe . 1995
  • Frieder Sauer: bugs and cicadas . 1996, ISBN 3-923010-12-5 .
  • Frieder Sauer: Wild Lilies of Europe . 1999
  • Frieder Sauer: buildings of animals . 2000

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Walter Heldt and Frieder Sauer: The inner membrane of the chloroplast envelope as the site of specific metabolite transport. Biochim Biophys Acta 234: pp. 83-91
  2. ^ Hans-Walter Heldt, Frieder Sauer, L. Rapley: The inner membrane of the chloroplast envelope as the site of specific metabolite transport. Proceedings on the Second International Congress on Photosynthesis. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague. Pp. 1345-1355
  3. ↑ Klaus Philipp bird voices - recognized according to vernacular verses . Fauna Verlag, Karlsfeld, 1994
  4. ↑ a b Lothar Sauer: From chemist to nature photographer . Biology in our time. No. 35, edition 1, 2005, p. 62. doi : 10.1002 / biuz.200590016 .

Remarks

All notes refer to the autobiographical information in The odd way .

  1. ^ The odd way, p. 135
  2. ↑ Afterword by his brother Lothar Sauer, pp. 273f.

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personal data
SURNAME Sour, Frieder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauer, Friedhelm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist, biologist and nature photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2000