Manfred Karremann

Manfred Karremann (*  1961 ) is a German author and journalist .

Life

Manfred Karremann studied social pedagogy in Stuttgart and worked at the youth welfare office there before he became a journalist. As a child he had already dealt with questions of animal welfare . Since 1989 he has reported in numerous works - in reports, books and documentaries - on the practice of animal transport . In 2005 he researched the trade in Chinese dog and cat skins , and in 2013 he researched the dangerous working conditions, including those of children, in the toxic leather tanneries  in Bangladesh . In doing so, he takes a compassionate attitude and, if possible, also helps the animals and people on site. Karremann's documentaries were shown on ZDF , ARD , Sat.1 and Stern TV on RTL as well as on foreign channels ( BBC , NBC , CNN ).

Karremann works with several different animal welfare organizations. He is the founder of the non-profit animal welfare organization Animal Network eV , which goes back to a group that he gathered around himself in his youth. Animal Network is now a network of around 200 people.

Another topic that Manfred Karremann turned to is child abuse . He processed his extensive and not harmless research in the pedophile scene in three reports for the series 37 Grad on ZDF (2003/2004), in contributions for the star and in the book It happens am hellicht Tag , which was published in 2007.

In addition to his journalistic activities, Karremann is a consultant for the criminal police special training of the Federal Criminal Police Office .

Manfred Karremann became an animal keeper as a sideline because of his commitment to animals. Out of compassion he has freed and taken in over 170 animals over the years. He also says that it has become more difficult to get his topics on TV because too often the focus is on entertainment.

Fonts (selection)

• Manfred Karremann, Karl Schnelting: Animals as commodities: tormented - killed - marketed . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1992. ISBN 3-596-11631-7 .
• In broad daylight: Undercover investigations into child abuse . DVA, 2004. ISBN 3-421-05835-0 .
• They treated us like animals: How we can effortlessly protect animals every day . Höcker, 2006. ISBN 978-3-9804617-4-0 .
• It happens in broad daylight. The hidden world of pedophiles and how we protect our children from abuse . DuMont. Cologne. 2007. ISBN 978-3-8321-8040-9 .

Awards (selection)

• 1996: Golden camera for television journalism
• 1998: Nomination for the Grimme Prize for investigative ZDF reports on human interaction with animals
• 1994 and 1997: CNN Prize (USA) for the best presentation of a current topic
• Franz von Assisi Medal of the German Animal Welfare Association
• 2003: MUT medal from the Animal Welfare Party

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Karremann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Manfred Karremann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Manfred Karremann at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Michael Hanfeld: There are minor issues that aren't . Cruel pictures: Manfred Karremann's films are worth seeing, even if you sometimes cannot watch them. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 12, 2004. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{a b} and suffering for leather: child labor, animal suffering and highly toxic production processes - PETA and documentary filmmaker Manfred Karremann show the reality of the global leather industry . Press release PETA. October 8, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
3. ^ Jörg E. Mayer: Manfred Karremann - animal rights activist and journalist . In: WDR television. Animals are looking for a home . For broadcast on December 1, 2013. November 29, 2013. Accessed December 20, 2013.
4. ↑ Manfred Karremann. About the founder of animalNetwork . Animal Network website. Without a date. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
5. ↑ Manfred Karremann: Among child molesters . In: Stern. Star series: The child molester network. October 29, 2003. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
6. ↑ It happens in broad daylight ( memento of the original from December 20, 2013 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. . DuMont. Publisher's text for the book It happens in broad daylight . Without a date. Retrieved December 20, 2013.