Gunter Hartung

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Gunter Hartung after a lecture in the helicopter museum Bückeburg 2012

Gunter Hartung (born April 22, 1942 in Bad Lauterberg ) is a German radio and television journalist, author and pilot.

Life

Gunter Hartung has been a reporter , editor and presenter for NDR radio since 1967 , and for television since 1980 . In 1978 he acquired a private pilot license (PPL) and specialized in aviation . He became head of the specialist editorial teams for research and technology as well as features and special programs and was responsible for the show Schaufenster Himmel in the ( ARD ) during the ILA until 1990 . In addition, he contributed to the series Countries, People, Adventures of the third ARD programs such as Wantok Baja - (encounters in Papua New Guinea) and Fire Tail in the Rainforest (contrasts in French Guiana ). In French Guiana, he barely survived the seaplane crash .

Hartung made around 40 documentaries in Papua New Guinea , China , USA , Europe , Africa , South America and the South Seas , where he portrayed the then King of Tonga in 2001 . Between 1997 and 2000 the documentaries In Flight Striped , North Cape Course and Orkney Course in the NDR were created , for which a Cessna 182 was used as the "recording platform". For the report Command Labrador - Surviving in low flight he accompanied German soldiers on board a Transall to the Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay and to Africa.

Gunter Hartung is a permanent employee of the Zivilluftfahrt magazine AERO International and a member of the Technical and Industrial History Working Group (AK TIG) , which has set itself the task of remembering the great pioneers in the Hanover region . One of these is Karl Jatho , who in his handwritten notes for August 18, 1903 - four months before the Wright brothers made it - noted a "jump in the air". Project leader We were the first to honor the Hanoverian aviation pioneer Karl Jatho. On the initiative of AK TIG historic is plane was reconstructed true to detail and now in the exhibition world of aviation at the airport Hannover-Langenhagen to see.

Further replicas of representatives of Hanoverian technical history are in the planning stage or are already about to be completed, such as the reconstruction of the Hanomag Rekord diesel car from 1939.

The next AK TIG project is a full-size, airworthy replica of the HAWA Vampyr , the ancestor of all fully thermal-capable gliders from 1921.

After all, Gunter Hartung is co-founder and chairman of the non-profit organization Plan Verde , which is committed to the renaturation and greening of deserts in northern Peru.

Gunter Hartung and designer Harald Lohmann in front of the Jatho kite 2006

Fonts

  • Take off today, land yesterday - adventurous flight stories around the globe - Stuttgart 1988
  • Land of the Hulis and 7 other books as part of the 8-volume Air Niugini Edition - Port Moresby 1991 to 1994
  • Super Guppy - An airplane flies for Europe - Augsburg 1993
  • Beluga - Otterstedt 1997
  • Aircraft around the world - Aeromantics - Munich 2004
  • Tinkerer and lateral thinker - A plea for Karl Jatho from Hanover - Hanover 2009
  • It started in Hanover. . . People - Technology - World Successes - Hannover 2009 (co-author)
  • Destination Hannover - 100 Years of Aviation - Hannover 2010 (co-author)
  • It started in Hanover. . . Cookies - Kommißbrote - Calculating machines - Hanover 2011 (co-author)
  • Up and Away - 30 years of aviation worldwide - Munich 2011
  • It started in Hanover. . . Tires - Rockets - Records - Hannover 2016 (co-author)
  • The pleasure of flying - pilots and their way into the cockpit - Munich 2018

Note: With the exception of inventors and lateral thinkers - A plea for Karl Jatho from Hanover , It began in Hanover (three volumes) and the destination Hanover - 100 years of aviation, all books together with Dietmar Plath , editor of the magazine AERO International

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Working Group on Technology and Industrial History in the Hanover Region (AK TIG)
  2. ↑ Sorry Mr. Wright - The Hanoverian pioneer was the first to start broadcasting on December 10, 2006 (NDR)
  3. ↑ Hanomag Museum
  4. ↑ I have a dream about the vampire
  5. ^ Catalog of the German National Library
  6. ↑ Change in the cockpit
personal data
SURNAME Hartung, Gunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Lauterberg , Germany