Jürgen Feder
Jürgen Feder (* 1960 in Flensburg ) is a German botanist , author and editor of the Bremen Botanical Letters .
Life
After graduating from high school, Feder completed an apprenticeship as a landscape gardener and then studied in Hanover to become a qualified engineer for landscape management , flora and vegetation . After that, he worked for a long time as an independent state caretaker and chief plant mapper with a focus on plant, animal and biotope types. In addition, he planned and maintained nature reserves. From 2002 he worked as a landscape gardener again and worked in a gardening company until 2013 . In his spare time he volunteered as a plant mapper for the Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coasts and Nature Conservation and for several decades he had a hobby with the recording of wild plants, especially in northern Germany . In 2008 he founded the Bremen Botanical Letters , whose editor and publisher he is to this day. He also wrote more than 600 specialist floristic articles.
After becoming known through television appearances such as the NDR ( NaturNah 2013, and as a one-hour portrait Die Nordstory: Unterwegs mit dem Pflanzenjäger , 2015) and ProSieben ( TV total 2013), he started his own business as an excursion guide and lecturer in botany. He lives in Bremen and Berlin .
Fonts (selection)
- The wild fern and flowering plants of the Wesermarsch district. In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 2002, ISBN 3-89598-926-6 , pp. 343-376 ( online ).
- Bremen Botanical Letters. from 2008, ISSN 1868-1670 ( online ).
- Feder's fabulous flora. On a discovery tour with an extreme botanist. Rowohlt Paperback: Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-61742-3 .
- Feder's fantastic city plants. New tours of discovery with the extreme botanist. Rowohlt paperback: Reinbek 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-63114-6 .
- Feder's little herbalism. The food is on the street. Rowohlt Paperback: Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-63220-4 .
- About divas, hustlers and hardworking lizards. Rowohlt Taschenbuch: Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-644-40492-2 .
- The plant savior. Why even daisies are important for biodiversity. Gräfe and Unzer: Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-8338-7351-5 .
Web links
- Jürgen spring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jürgen Feder's website
- Johan Dehoust: Jürgen Feder. Out and about with a plant hunter. In: Die Zeit Online, May 14, 2014, accessed on April 21, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Broadcast at NDR on July 17, 2015, NDR for the broadcast ( Memento from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feder, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flensburg |