Horst Siewert (animal photographer)

Horst Siewert ( 1902 in St. Petersburg - 1943 in Crete ) was a German wildlife photographer and filmmaker, director, screenwriter, cameraman, film producer, wildlife biologist and forester. In 1939 he was at the University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde with a dissertation about the courtship of Great Bustards doctorate . In 1943 he died of a heart attack while filming in Crete. Heinz Sielmann completed Siewert's last documentary.

Works

Storks. Experiences with the black and white stork. With 80 plates based on photographs by the author. D. Reimer, Berlin 1932.
Forest and game / forester fruit not. With 19 pictures by Horst Siewert. Steup & Bernhard, Berlin 1934 ( Der Deutschen Forstbeamte , Vol. 2, No. 38; special art print supplement)
The Great Bustard's courtship. Neumann, Berlin 1939. Dissertation , FH Eberswalde, 1939 (university publication ; from: Zeitschrift für Jagdkunde. Vol. 1, no.1 / 2, pp. 7–35; with 16 plates based on nature photographs and 5 text drawings by the author)

Storks. Newly edited and supplemented by Rolf Dircksen . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1955.

Christoph Hinkelmann : Horst Siewert. Master photographer, wildlife filmmaker and wildlife biologist. On the basis of an exhibition in the East Prussian State Museum, Lüneburg, from October 2, 1999 to February 13, 2000, and in the Schorfheide Museum, Groß Schönebeck. Märkischer Kunst- und Heimatverlag, 1999, ISBN 392974306X .

personal data
SURNAME	Siewert, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German wildlife photographer and filmmaker, director, screenwriter, cameraman, film producer, wildlife biologist and forester
DATE OF BIRTH	1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	1943
Place of death	Crete