Paul Munzinger

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Paul W. Munzinger (born May 1, 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German underwater photographer , author and freelance journalist .

Life

Munzinger worked as an architect and graduate engineer before turning his hobby diving into a profession and becoming an underwater photographer and freelance journalist.

From 1980 to 1997 he was the owner and manager of the Freiburg diving center, the Freiburg diving school and the travel agency Amphibia Tours. Since 1997 he has worked as a freelance journalist in the areas of diving, travel and underwater photography for various national and international magazines. He is also occasionally a tour guide for various tour operators.

Munzinger received over 60 national and international awards for his underwater pictures until 1997 and counts among others. a. to the ten "top photographers" according to Spiegel Online . He has worked on more than two dozen books on diving and travel. By 2015 Munzinger had over 12,300 dives in his logbooks and was represented with reports in various magazines, e. B. in diving , underwater , Atlantis , Geo and National Geographic .

Munzinger operates the production company UW-Media-Produktion and u. a. since 2011 the website www.100-beste-tauchreviere.de. Since the beginning of 2015 he has been producing the online magazine divingEurope together with Frank Schneider .

Munzinger is a board member with the Limnology Working Group (AGL) Oberrhein e. V. for the promotion of environmental protection through the protection, maintenance and revitalization of spring, floodplain and other waters, especially in the southern Upper Rhine region .

He lives with his wife in the Freiburg district of Waltershofen in a house he designed himself.

Works

A selection of Munzinger's publications:

  • with Kamillo Weiss: Successful underwater photography (= pocket books for photo and film from vwi-Verlag . Vol. 18). vwi-Verlag Knülle, Herrsching am Ammersee 1983, ISBN 3-88369-087-2 .
  • Caribbean diving guide. Diving regions, animals and plants, travel tips . Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89440-206-7 .
  • with Heinz Käsinger: Diving areas of the world . Müller Rüschlikon, Cham 1999-2001.
  • with Heinz Käsinger: snorkeling. Fun in the sea with a mask, snorkel and fin . Müller Rüschlikon, Cham 2002, ISBN 3-275-01427-7 ( translated into Polish by Agnieszka Magierska , Alma-Press, Warsaw 2005, ISBN 83-7020-327-2 ).
  • with Thilo Künneth: cave diving. Scuba diving in caves and grottos . Müller Rüschlikon, Cham 2003, ISBN 3-275-01460-9 .
  • with Lutz Odewald: Warning, dangerous - everything that bites in the sea stings and stings . UW-Media-Production, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 3-00-012327-X .
  • 100 dive sites. Underwater paradises around the globe . Parragon, Bath 2010, ISBN 978-1-4075-5537-9 (also translated into English , 100 Diving sites , and Spanish , 100 Paraisos Submarinos ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger Paul . In: Atlantis - Magazin für Divestyle , accessed September 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ Linus Geschke: The best underwater shots: Photo rendezvous with manta rays - Paul Munzinger: Scrap metal in Finland . In: Spiegel Online , March 25, 2010, accessed September 5, 2016.
  3. ^ Paul Munzinger . In: Tauchjournal , accessed on September 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ New on the net: "The 100 best diving areas" . In: tauchen.de , April 26, 2011, accessed on September 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ New online magazine “divingEurope” . tauchjournal.de, January 18, 2015, accessed on August 2, 2017.
  6. ^ Website of the Limnology Working Group , accessed on September 5, 2016.
  7. ↑ Maximilian Vogelmann: A man of the world under water . In: Badische Zeitung , August 12, 2010, accessed on September 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Munzinger, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Munzinger, Paul W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German underwater photographer and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau