Hans A. Traber

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Hans A. Traber (born January 10, 1921 in Zurich ; † September 10, 1986 ) was a Swiss naturalist and TV presenter.

Life

Hans A. Traber was born on January 10, 1921 in Zurich. From 1940 to 1945 he was a student of medicine and biology at the University of Zurich , which he left without a degree. In 1944 he worked as a picture editor for the magazine Du . In 1947 he was the head of the biological department of the Kulturfilm-AG. In 1949 he switched to the microscopy department at Wild Heerbrugg AG . In addition, he was a member of the board of the Rheintal adult education center in Heerbrugg . He organized film evenings and lecture series. From 1955 he made films on natural history topics for Swiss television . In Studio Bellerive its Switzerland's well-known programs emerged as the TV kit or Hans A. Traber gives information . On June 14, 1961, television broadcast a school television trial . The program Plankton was broadcast to 225 school classes with Trotter as the presenter. The teachers were asked to judge this contribution critically. With his most enthusiastic way in which he presented his programs, he put his viewers under a spell. His films were a sensation for the time. In 1967 Life Under the Magnifying Glass was published - Am Bach . For this show, he moved an entire television studio to a stream, with a camera, lighting, microscope and macro camera. In 1960 he made the first film about the Swiss National Park and his long-playing records with bird and other animal sounds also attracted attention abroad and are still available on CD today. In 1968 he received the Adolf Grimme Prize for directing Leben unter der Lupe .

Immediately before his death in 1986, Traber received the Dr. hc from the University of Bern .

broadcasts

  • "Hans A. Traber provides information"
  • «TV kit»
  • "Life under the microscope"

Discography

  • 1968 LP Aus Wald und Feld (birdsong and other animal sounds)
  • 1970 LP From Forest and Field (Birdsongs and Other Animal Sounds) Part 2
  • 1972 LP Guest of the King of Bhutan - songs, folk music and dances
  • 1975 LP Singing Landscape (birdsong and other animal sounds)
  • 1984 LP stereo concert of the bird songs from the woods and fields
  • 1988 CD This is how our birds sing episode 1
  • 1992 CD This is how our birds sing episode 2
  • 1993 CD This is how our birds sing, episode 3

Books

  • Home of Life, Eugen Rentsch Verlag, Erlenbach-Zurich 1951

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV
  2. ↑ Hans A. Traber: The plankton. In: SRF archive. SRF / SRG, June 14, 1961, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ TV pioneer
  4. ↑ Life under the microscope - Am Bach
  5. ↑ Records
personal data
SURNAME Traber, Hans A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss naturalist and TV presenter
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1986
Place of death Zurich