Hugo van Lawick
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Hugo van Lawick (born April 10, 1937 in Surabaya , Indonesia , † June 2, 2002 in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania ) was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer .
Life
Hugo van Lawick was born in Indonesia to Hugo Anne Victor Raoul Baron van Lawick and Isabella Sophia Baroness van Ittersum. He discovered his love for animals and photography early on. In 1959 he worked as a cameraman for a Dutch company in Kenya for the first time. In 1962 the Dutch Baron Hugo van Lawick was sent to Kenya by the National Geographic Society to make a film. There he met the behaviorist Jane Goodall , who studied the behavior of chimpanzees. Van Lawick and Goodall married on March 28, 1964, and their son Hugo was born in 1967. The old footage was used again in 2017 to create a film from it. The documentary film "Jane" by director Brett Morgan and with music by Philip Glass was released in 2018.
His films showed a wide audience the endangered life of various wild animals in the Serengeti , such as: B. African wild dogs , elephants and lions .
Van Lawick died of emphysema in his son's house in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania .
Filmography (selection)
- 1973: Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa
- 1984: Among the Wild Chimpanzees
- 1988: People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
- 1989: Serengeti Diary
- 1996: The Little Leopard (The Leopard Son) .
Publications
- with Peter Matthiessen : Sand Rivers , Aurum Press, London 1981, ISBN 0-906053-22-6 .
Web links
- Hugo van Lawick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lawick, Hugo van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Surabaya , Indonesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 2002 |
| Place of death | Dar es Salaam , Tanzania |