Günter Ziesler

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Günter Ziesler and Angelika Hofer

Günter Ziesler (born September 7, 1939 in Munich ) is a German nature and animal photographer .

Live and act

Influenced by his role model, the Swedish animal photographer Bengt Berg , Ziesler began to photograph animals at the age of 16 in Hellabrunn Zoo with his father's Voigtlander camera. He has been using Nikon camera equipment with a stable high tripod since the late 1960s . In 1974 Ziesler started his own business as a wildlife and nature photographer. His first photo expedition took him to Foula , a remote Shetland island . After traveling through Scandinavia, he graduated from 1976 to 1977 an expedition with the VW - Caravan of Colombia to Patagonia. In 1980 he began working with his future wife, the biologist Angelika Hofer . After several short trips, they went on long expeditions to Africa, South America, India, Southeast Asia and Australia. In 1984 the first joint photo book Safari - the East African diaries of a nature photographer was published. Several other books were published in the period that followed. In addition, Ziesler's photos can be found in numerous magazines, picture calendars and in the book series Handbook of the Birds of the World . Since Ziesler's visit to the Manú National Park in Peru in 1977 , he has been particularly interested in the rainforests. In 1998, together with his wife, he designed the traveling exhibition The rainforest adventure begins at breakfast at home. In 2001 the photo exhibition Mahale - Encounters with Chimpanzees was created in cooperation with the Museum Mensch und Natur in Munich , and in 2007 in cooperation with the Global Nature Fund the traveling exhibition Pantanal - a paradise in danger .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1973 Günter Ziesler, Josef Reichholf: Neighbor Animal (new edition 1997)
  • 1984 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Safari - the East African diaries of a nature photographer (there is an English edition of this work (Safari - The East African Diaries of a Wildlife Photographer), in which Nigel Sitwell was involved, and also a Finnish edition (Safari, published by Otava ISBN 951-1-08453-4 ) which is based on the English language).
  • 1986 Günter Ziesler, Valmik Thapar and Fateh Singh Rathore: Tiger - Portrait of a predator
  • 1987 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: A goose summer
  • 1988 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Das Löwenkinderbuch
  • 1989 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Diary of a goose mother (filmed by WDR as a 14-part television series)
  • 1991 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Urwaldpfade
  • 1992 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: South America
  • 1995 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Geese - a reading picture book
  • 1995 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Pinguine - a reading picture book
  • 1998 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer, Michael A. Huffmann: Mahale - encounter with chimpanzees
  • 1999 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Auctoritas
  • 2000 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Amoenitas
  • 2001 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Ingenium
  • 2003 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Königswinkel - where dreams come true
  • 2007 Günter Ziesler, Angelika Hofer: Pantanal - The Heart of South America

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personal data
SURNAME Ziesler, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nature and animal photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich