Klaus Heller (non-fiction author)

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Klaus Heller filming in Florida (1982)
12-man-hang-load, organized and photographed by Klaus Heller in 1980 over Taft / California
Self-portrait by Klaus Heller from the perspective of the parachute canopy

Klaus Heller (born July 4, 1952 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm ) is a German author, parachutist , free fall cameraman, base jumper and publisher. In 1982 he completed the first declared base jump in Germany. Heller wrote a textbook for the training of parachutists, which appeared in seven editions from 1979 to 2008.

Life

Klaus Heller attended the State Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich until 1970 and is a trained nurse, skydiving instructor and helicopter pilot. He completed his first skydive in 1972 in Lake Elsinore , California , a well-known North American parachuting center.

Heller was a student of the American freefall cameraman Carl Boenish and in the 1970s and 1980s belonged to a small, globally active group of parachutists who were able to film free fall with heavy 16 mm and 35 mm film cameras mounted on their helmet. In 1976 he founded the company FSW Fallschirmwerbung Heller GmbH, which was active until 2014 (renamed Air Action GmbH in 1993 ), with whom he worked as a free-fall cameraman for advertising shoots (including for the Wienerwald restaurant chain , for Nippon chocolate bars, Scout school satchels and Langnese ice cream ), as a second unit worked on television and cinema productions (including SOKO 5113 and Auf Los geht's los ), realized in-house productions and sold video recordings by other freefall filmmakers. The company established itself for several years as the world's largest specialist provider of film material about skydiving. Photographs by Heller were widely published in aviation magazines and consumer magazines in the 1980s.

In 1980 Klaus Heller organized, filmed and photographed a so-called “Hang Load” over Taft, California (USA), in which twelve parachutists climbed onto the roof of a Twin Beech ( Beechcraft Model 18 ) before jumping . On October 5, 1982, Heller completed the first base jump in Germany from the Kochertalbrücke . In 1984 he filmed Rainer Nowak's first base jump from the Munich Olympic Tower .

In the 1990s, Heller developed and sold the Heller Helmet camera helmet , the Heller Sight auxiliary finder and the Heller Mount camera helmet attachment , as well as the light mini-video camera ActionCam from 2004 . Copies of the Heller helmet and the Heller Sight finder are exhibited in the branch of the German Museum Flugwerft Schleißheim in Oberschleißheim.

In 1990, Klaus Heller founded Heller Verlag, in which he publishes DVDs about skydiving and helicopter flying as well as travel guides and advice.

Heller has been married since 1990, has three children and lives with his wife Gabi Heller in a suburb of Munich.

Selected Works

Books

  • Klaus Heller: Skydiving for beginners and advanced , Nymphenburger Verlag, Munich, 7th edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-485-01133-4
  • Klaus Heller: The fascination of paragliding. A textbook for theory and practice , Heyne, Munich, 4th edition 1994, ISBN 978-3-453-07702-7
  • Klaus Heller, Gabi Heller: Panama Highlights , Heller Verlag, 2nd edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-929403-36-7
  • Klaus Heller, Gabi Heller: Costa Rica Highlights , Heller Verlag, 2nd edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-929403-46-6
  • Klaus Heller: Surviving Cyber ​​Wars and Other Disasters Better , Heller Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-929403-47-3

Movies

  • Klaus Heller: Helicopter Basics. Basics of helicopter flying , Heller Verlag, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-929403-18-3
  • Klaus Heller, Oliver Furrer, Achmed Sharma, Edgar Kraus, Thomas Atzberger, Mike Kleist: Skydiving Adventures , Heller Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-929403-25-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Peter Schäfer: In focus: Klaus Heller . (PDF) In: Freifall Xpress (magazine of the German Parachute Sports Association DFV) . No. 03, 2013, p. 28.
  2. ↑ Klaus Heller: Parachuting for beginners and advanced, 1. – 7. Edition 1979-2008 . Nymphenburger, Munich.
  3. ^ Vita Klaus Heller
  4. ↑ Mathias Welp: Between heaven and earth . In: Quick . No. 17, 1984.
  5. ↑ a b Rupp Doinet: They always come down . In: Stern . No. 46, 1982.
  6. ↑ No pilot forgets his first solo flight. Interview with Klaus Heller. hobbymap.de, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b c Klaus Heller - An interview with the parachutist professional. fallschirmsprung.info, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Marge Bitetti, Tony Bitteti: The Aviation History of Greater Riverside . The History Press, Charleston 2013, ISBN 978-1-61423-853-9 , pp. 115 ( [1] ).
  9. ↑ Excerpt from the commercial register Air Action GmbH. moneyhouse, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Skydiving books and videos. Short article about parachute advertising Heller. SkyXtreme, May 2008, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Achim Teuchert: Höhenkoller . In: Esquire Germany . No. 6, 1979.
  12. ↑ a b Cover picture: Twelve men on an airplane . In: aerokurier . No. 10, 1980.
  13. ↑ Cover picture: 1. Caps for the Zephyrhills Relative World Cup . In: Parachute Sport Magazin . No. 11/12, 1980.
  14. ↑ Cover picture: Klaus Heller's Hang Load . In: Parachute Sport Magazin . No. 1/2, 1981.
  15. ↑ cover picture . In: Parachute Sport Magazin . No. 6, 1985.
  16. ↑ Cover picture: The new mesh: Two on one screen . In: aerokurier . No. 10, 1985.
  17. ↑ cover picture . In: Parachute Sport Magazin . No. 4, 1987.
  18. ↑ cover picture . In: Parachute Sport Magazin . No. 5, 1988.
  19. ↑ a b Lord of the Skies. Klaus Heller in an interview with Armin Geier. Münchner Merkur, July 14, 2018, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  20. ^ Trees van Mierlo: Nieuws fabrikanten - Heller Helmet . In: Sport Parachutist . No. 8, 1992.
  21. ↑ The wide range of uses of the ActionCam. Industry portal of Giel Frankfurt GmbH, March 27, 2006, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Heller Verlag. Retrieved January 16, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Gabi and Klaus Heller. buchszene.de, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Klaus Heller on "Surviving Cyber ​​Wars and Other Disasters Better - The Little Crisis Manual". Interview: Jörg Steinleitner. buchszene.de, January 10, 2019, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German parachutist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm