Kuno Steuben

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German infantry general of this name, see Kuno von Steuben (1855–1935).

Kuno S. Steuben and Kuno Sch. Steuben , actually Kuno Schmutnig (* around 1937 ; † September 20, 2004 in Dalyan ) was a German sailor who published several books.

Life

Schmutnig's parents had a business. Kuno Schmutnig was looked after and raised by a governess until he was sent to boarding school. He began studying medicine, but gave it up to travel. As a student, Schmutnig once worked at the Senckenberg Nature Museum in Frankfurt am Main during the school holidays . In the summer of 1956 Schmutnig practiced with a folding boat in the North Sea . In the spring of 1957 he traveled to Izmir with the boat in his luggage and paddled southwards along the coast from there. Schmutnig experienced the severe earthquake in Fethiye in April 1957 . He drove to Rhodes and from there paddled across the Aegean Sea to Piraeus . In October 1957 he arrived in Corfu . In winter he went to Kiruna , Sweden , crossed the ice steppes of Lapland on skis and spent the winter of 1957/58 there. In the spring of 1958 Schmutnig hired Norwegian whalers . In summer he paddled down the Rhone and through the Camargue in his folding boat . In the autumn he signed a contract for an expedition on the Mediterranean coast near Marseille to examine ancient shipwrecks. He learned to dive professionally . He then became a member of a film team that was supposed to shoot an underwater documentary in the Canary Islands . On the ferry from Barcelona to the Canary Islands, he met his future wife Lili, a mannequin and photo model .

In 1959 he traveled to Ethiopia in late autumn with the idea of ​​writing a book . First he stayed in Addis Ababa in order to obtain the necessary permits. In early January 1960, he built on a Nile bridge the road between Addis Ababa and Debre Markos a raft and settled on the Blue Nile drive about 300 kilometers downstream. On February 5, 1960 there was an encounter with four Oromo men , in the course of which there was a fight in which Schmutnig and probably two of the Oromo were wounded. His raft trip ended about two weeks later. Schmutnig was stranded on the bank, weakened by the injury, dysentery , malaria and malnutrition . Whether he himself climbed the plateau of Godscham above the canyon of the Nile or whether a tribe living nearby found him, remained uncertain. It was cared for and finally, in about ten days, accompanied by local guides, brought back to the Nile bridge, from where it was driven to Debre Markos. He published his experiences in the book To the gold sources of the Pharaohs: Alone on the raging Nile . The book inspired Rüdiger Nehberg in the early 1970s to go on a paddle boat trip on the Blue Nile.

Schmutnig sailed around the Peloponnese in the summer of 1960 with his fiancée Lili in a non-motorized 5 m fishing boat . In the summer of 1961, now married, he and his wife sailed in the same boat from Piraeus through the Aegean Sea to the coast of Asia Minor . On Kalymnos , they exchanged the boat for a former sponge diving ship that was twice as large and 10 meters long. They overhauled the ship and named it Shangrila . He and his wife sailed in the waters around Bodrum until the autumn of 1961 . Schmutnig published the experiences in the book Adventure with Shangrila .

In 1966 Schmutnig sold the Shangrila and switched to the four-meter-long unique catamaran , on which he and his wife sailed from Izmir to Manavgat in the Gulf of Antalya . The experience led to a series of articles in the magazine Yacht in 1967 .

In 1974 he and his wife started to set up a center for scuba divers in Zanzibar . He sat for the shark tagging program in the Atlantic and founded in this regard in Zurich the Tuna Sportfishing GmbH , which had until 2007 inventory. In 1985 they both returned to Turkey and settled in Dalyan, southeast of Marmaris , to help build a national park for eco-tourism. Schmutnig died there in 2004.

Fonts

• On the gold sources of the pharaohs: Alone on the raging Nile , Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt / Vienna 1963
  • Hungarian edition: Tutajjal a fáraók aranybányáihoz: (Egyedül a rohanó Níluson) , Bratislava 1966 and Budapest 1966
  • Bulgarian edition: Kǔm zlatnite izvori na faraonite , translated by Simeon Tichov, Profizdat, Sofia 1967
  • English edition: Alone on the Blue Nile , Hale, London 1973, ISBN 978-0709133414
• Adventure with Shangrila , Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt / Vienna 1965
• Forgotten coast Asia Minor - voyage of discovery in a catamaran , four articles in: Yacht , 9/1967 to 12/1967
• On sharks and large fish in all the world's oceans: fishing grounds and fishing methods , Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1973
• with Gerhard Krefft: The sharks of the seven seas: species, way of life and sporty catch , Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-490-12914-8 and 2nd edition 1989

Web links

• Literature by and about Kuno Steuben in the catalog of the German National Library
• Udo Hinnerkopf: The adventurer on the Turkish coast , report on Kuno Schmutnig, accessed on July 25, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kuno S. Steuben: On the gold sources of the Pharaohs: Alone on the raging Nile , Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt / Vienna 1963, p. 14
2. ↑ The Eastern Mediterranean, the cradle of civilization , dalyaninfo.de, accessed on July 26, 2011
3. ↑ Kuno S. Steuben: On the gold sources of the Pharaohs: Alone on the raging Nile , Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt / Vienna 1963, p. 105 f.
4. ^ Kuno S. Steuben: On the gold sources of the pharaohs: Alone on the raging Nile , Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt / Vienna 1963, p. 55
5. ↑ Kuno S. Steuben: On the gold sources of the Pharaohs: Alone on the raging Nile , Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt / Vienna 1963, p. 95 ff. Schmutnig calls the four men there Galla , the outdated term for Oromo.
6. ^ Adventure on the Blue Nile and Omo River , Rüdiger Nehberg's website, accessed on July 25, 2011; see. also Rüdiger Nehberg: Adventure Adventure: Blue Nile and Rudolfsee. Kabel, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-921909-61-9 .
7. ↑ Extract from the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich for entry CH-020.4.900.580-6 , accessed on July 25, 2011