Konrad Wothe

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Konrad Wothe (* 1952 in Munich ) is a German biologist, animal filmmaker and animal photographer .

Life

Wothe, who was given his first camera at the age of eight and has since experimented with photography, first learned the profession of a dental technician after graduating from high school at the Oskar-von-Miller-Gymnasium in Munich . As a high school student, he won first prize in physics in the 1972 Youth Research competition for a 360-degree panorama camera he had designed himself . His trainer, the owner of the dental technology laboratory, recognized the talent of his protégé and passed him on to an animal filmmaker friend: Heinz Sielmann . After completing his apprenticeship, Wothe enthusiastically worked in Sielmann's film team and decided, like Sielmann, to become a nature photographer and wildlife filmmaker. He enrolled at the LMU Munich and studied biology, majoring in zoology and behavioral research , parallel to his film work in Sielmann's team . His thesis in 1979 dealt with the song of the tree pipit .

Since then he has worked as a freelance animal filmmaker, mainly for ZDF . He is a member of the Society of German Animal Photographers and the Ornithological Society . Wothe lives in Penzberg in Upper Bavaria .

Publications (selection)

  • Konrad Wothe: Orangutans . Tecklenborg, Steinfurt 1996.
  • Konrad Wothe: Brightly colored and invisible . Knesebeck, Munich 2016.
  • Co-author of two bird books: Photo Atlas of Birds 1982 and Birds Nature Guide 1984, both Gräfe and Unzer Verlag Munich
  • Quetzal - birds of gods in the cloud forest ; Film by Michael Herzog and Konrad Wothe, commissioned by ZDF
  • Jungle spirits in Madagascar , Michael Herzog and Konrad Wothe, on behalf of ZDF
  • Photographs for Our Unique Bird World: The Diversity of Species and Why It's Endangered. Frederking & Thaler, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95416-273-4 .
  • Numerous photos and articles in books and magazines; Animal films on ZDF and BBC .

Awards (selection)

  • Four first and five second prizes as well as a further 22 awards in the BBC's " Wildlife Photographer of the Year " international photo competition from 1985 to 2000.
  • Nature photographer of the year 1999, Society of German Animal Photographers
  • Six gold medals, one silver and two bronze medals in the international photo competition “Austrian Super Circuit” in 2000.

literature

  • A thousand and one nights for the Tele-Zoo; Nature filmmakers and naturalists report on their work ; Edited by Georg Rüppelt; Springer Basel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jugend Forscht, Physik Bayern 1972: Development and construction of a camera with a 360 ° angle of view and physical investigations on it ( Memento from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ German Ornithological Society, accessed on January 30, 2016
  3. ↑ Program announcement
  4. ^ Society of German Animal Photographers, list of members
  5. ^ Photo presentations of the Ornithological Society
  6. ↑ Review in the WELT, accessed on January 28, 2016
  7. ↑ Description of the publisher
  8. ↑ Program information ZDF
personal data
SURNAME Wothe, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, animal filmmaker and animal photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich