Lynn Schooler
Lynn Schooler (* 1954 ) has lived in Juneau , Alaska , USA since his youth . As a renowned expedition leader, trapper and fisherman, Schooler offers those interested in observation and photo tours through the Alaskan wilderness, including on his boat "Wilderness Swift" (wilderness sailor). He is a photographer and also the author of two books with completely different subjects.
Schooler was forced to live part of his youth wearing a corset from neck to hip because of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (curvature of the spine). This resulted in peer isolation and a hermit life . After his family moved to Alaska, he became enthusiastic about the overwhelming nature. His personal fate, the loss of his girlfriend to a serial killer, the loss of his father to cancer, and the loss of his long-time boyfriend to a bear attack, form the motif for his first book.
“ For Schooler, Alaska is the only way to live - in close proximity to nature, life and death, the seasons and wild animals. He sees it as a metaphor for our own life, a way to stay in touch with what really defines us. Without the distractions of an urban lifestyle. "
"The Blue Bear" (German title: "Die Spur des Blauen Bären") was published by Harper Collins, the German edition by Hanser. It tells of the almost obsessive search for the legendary blue bears. It is an extremely rare species of black bear that lives exclusively along the coast between Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia . The partly poetic book contains a lot of natural history information, describes a great setting and gives an impression of the transience.
The content of the book, intended as a work of mourning and commemoration at the same time, documents the friendship with the award-winning nature photographer Michio Hoshino , who died in 1996 and with whom Schooler traveled in Alaska for years. However, Hoshino died years before Schooler saw the blue bear.
Schooler began nature photography himself, and Hoshino passed on his knowledge to him: "He taught me to look with my eyes but to see with the heart," said Schooler. "That was a very important lesson for me. More than photography." Meanwhile, Schooler has won the Alaska Magazine (USA) Grand Prize for Wilderness Photography and the National Wildlife Grand Prize for Wildlife (USA) several times.
In his second book "The Last Shot" Schooler documents the last shot fired during the American Civil War (1861–1865). It is about the sailing ship CSS Shenandoah of the Confederate Army of the American Southern States, which was commissioned in the fall of 1864 to destroy large-scale whaling ships in the Northern States. Due to the long journey of the ship and the lack of contact with land, the last shot of the Civil War was fired months after the surrender of the south in the waters around Little Diomede Island. This island is off Alaska.
literature
- Schooler, Lynn, The Blue Bear's Trail , Hanser, 2002, ISBN 978-3-446-20236-8
- Schooler, Lynn, The Blue Bear , Harper Collins, ISBN 9780060935733
- Schooler, Lynn, The Last Shot , Harper Collins, ISBN 9780060523343
- Hoshino, Michio: Hoshino's Alaska . Foreword by Lynn Schooler, Chronicle Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0811856515
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief portrait of Lynn Schooler (German) ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at: hanser.de, accessed on April 8, 2016
- ↑ Interview with Lynn Schooler (German) ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at hanser.de, accessed on April 8, 2016
- ↑ 3SAT Kulturzeit - Von Bären und Menschen (German) ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on: 3sat.de, offline
- ↑ Lynn Schooler appeared in the TV talk show Tout le monde en parle , Radio Canada , November 2, 2002 (together with Anna Politkowskaja, among others )
- ↑ Interview with Lynn Schooler , at: harpercollins.com, accessed April 8, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schooler, Lynn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American wildlife photographer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |