Rudiger Nehberg

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Rüdiger Nehberg, 2014 Signature of Rüdiger Nehberg
The Tree in the Technik-Museum Speyer (2004)

Rüdiger Nehberg (also "Sir Vival" called by English survival "survival"; * 4. May 1935 in Bielefeld , † 1. April 2020 in Rausdorf (Holstein) ) was a German confectioner , Survival -expert and activist for human rights . He later used his expeditions, which were initially undertaken out of a thirst for adventure, to draw attention to social problems. His life's work, among other things, its commitment to the South American nation of the Yanomami and his fight against female genital mutilation .

Life

Rüdiger Nehberg started his first "expedition" at the age of three, as his mother later told him. He wanted to see his grandmother, who lived at the other end of his hometown Bielefeld. However, eight hours later he was picked up by the police. From 1951 to 1960 Nehberg went cycling around half the world. From 1965 he worked as a self-employed confectioner in Hamburg . He ran his pastry shop with up to 50 employees for 25 years.

Inspired by the book Zu den Goldquellen der Pharaonen: Alone on the raging Nile by Kuno S. Steuben , who rafted down the river in 1959, he first rode the river in early 1971 together with Hinrich Finck, whom he met through a newspaper ad Blue Nile . After 12 days on the water and around 200 km, the boat got stuck in a baobab tree and could no longer be freed from them. In 1972 they started the second attempt together with cameraman Michael Teichmann: They conquered the river in a self-constructed, more stable boat, and were also shot at by hostile locals . The attempt to take a three and a half meter long rock python , which he was able to overpower after a long struggle in the water, home alive and to integrate it into his snake terrarium in the basement, failed. The python died after a few days. Nehberg undertook a third crossing in January 1975 with his friend Andreas Scholtz, again accompanied by Michael Teichmann as a photographer and cameraman. On January 12th, the group was ambushed by local robbers, resulting in a shooting. Teichmann was fatally hit in the head from behind. The perpetrators were found and charged with murder .

Since 1980, Nehberg campaigned for the Yanomami Indian people in South America . As a test for future actions in the jungle, he covered around 1000 kilometers on a “Germany March ” from Hamburg to Oberstdorf in 1981 and lived only on what he found in nature outside of civilization. The 23-day event was documented by a ZDF team and broadcast on television. In 1983 Nehberg made his first trip to South Africa . Equipped with only a diary , he walked a distance of almost 400 kilometers, from De Aar to East London . His diary entries - which were later published in excerpts in one of his books - indicate that Nehberg lived for two days without fluids. In 1987 he crossed the Atlantic in a pedal boat . In preparation for this, combat swimmers offered him a few days of training in Eckernförde . In 1989 Nehberg appeared daily as a studio expert on the Swiss TV program Eins zu Eins - Steinzeit-Survival , broadcast by Swiss television and 3sat , in which several people were filmed in nature for two weeks without modern aids.

In 1992 Nehberg crossed the Atlantic Ocean again on a bamboo raft together with the human rights activist Christina Haverkamp . In doing so, he contributed to the fact that the Yanomami Indians were granted a protected reservation . During his campaign The Tree in 2001, he crossed the Atlantic on a trimaran made from a 350-year-old silver fir .

On July 31, 2003, he let himself be abseiled into the Brazilian jungle by a helicopter from a height of 50 meters and only equipped with a knife in order to conquer the rainforest with all its dangers. After 25 days he came out of the jungle after being temporarily lost.

Nehberg was also the initiator of the research into the alleged chief Tatunca Nara , an emigrated German named Günther Hauck . Since then, Nara has been considered a con man and a fraud. Several people mysteriously died while touring the Brazilian jungle. Nara's alleged tribe of the Ugha Mongulala, who are said to live in the underground city of Akakor, aroused the interest of several adventurous people who wanted to be guided there by the “self-made chief” (Nehberg's book of the same name) but never returned. The deaths of the companions could never be solved.

In September 2000 he founded the human rights organization TARGET , which has achieved success in the fight against female genital mutilation . In November 2006, TARGET organized and financed a conference under the auspices of the Egyptian Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa at al-Azhar University in Cairo . As a result of this conference, leading Islamic legal scholars condemned the practice of genital mutilation. In March 2009, Nehberg and Tarafa Baghajati visited the Islamic legal scholar and publicist Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who lives in Qatar . In a fatwa drawn up by the recognized legal scholar, the genital mutilation of girls is described as the “work of the devil” and prohibited under all circumstances because it is directed against the ethics of Islam .

On August 25, 2009, Nehberg married his long-time partner Annette Weber (* 1959) for the second time . The couple, who met in 1996 at a lecture by Nehberg in Offenburg , lived in Rausdorf in Schleswig-Holstein . He had a daughter from his first marriage, the actress Kirsten Nehberg .

Rüdiger Nehberg died on April 1, 2020 at the age of 84. His last book, entitled Dem courage is not a risk, was published posthumously on April 6, 2020.

Awards

  • 2002: Federal Cross of Merit , for his commitment to threatened peoples and for international understanding, especially for understanding with Islam .
  • 2006: Hamburg Citizens' Prize from the CDU Hamburg .
  • 2006: The Afar people jointly awarded Nehberg and his partner Annette Weber honorary citizenship .
  • 2008: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class , for his commitment against the mutilation of female genitals.
  • 2015: Urania Medal together with his wife Annette, "for human rights especially weak on earth: the commitment to the survival of the Yanomami and Waipapi Indians in northern Brazil and the fight for an end to female genital mutilation, especially in Africa."
  • 2019: Award "The Blue Tongue" at the Cologne Speaker Night 2019 for his life's work in the fight against female genital mutilation worldwide.

Books

Movies

  • Boat trip into the unknown - 1000 km to Lake Rudolf. 1976, documentary, approx. 45 minutes,
  • A trip to the jungle Indians. 1978, documentary, approx. 45 minutes
  • The Germany March. 1981, documentary, 38 minutes, ISBN 978-3-8312-9352-0 .
  • Survival in the jungle. 1983, documentary, approx. 43 minutes, ISBN 978-3-8312-9354-4
  • The bulky rubbish raft. 1986, documentary, 34 minutes, ISBN 978-3-8312-9352-0 .
  • With the pedal boat to Brazil. 1988, documentary, 42 minutes
  • Gold rush in Amazonia. 1989, documentary, 42 minutes
  • Desert of Death - Race through the Australian bush. 1996, documentary, 45 minutes
  • Atlantic trip in the Christmas tree. 2000, documentary, 30 minutes
  • Adventure on your doorstep. 2005, tutorial, approx. 75 minutes, ISBN 3-8312-8806-2
  • The secret of Tatunca Nara. 2005, documentary, approx. 59 minutes
  • The thing - campaign against a taboo. 2006, documentary, 60 minutes
  • The jungle runner. 2007, documentary, 43 minutes
  • Caravan of Hope. 2009, Adolf Grimme Prize 2010

Web links

Commons : Rüdiger Nehberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Sir Vival": Survival expert Rüdiger Nehberg is dead. In: Welt Online. Axel Springer SE, April 2, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2020 .
  2. ^ Rüdiger Nehberg: Survival - Adventure - Human Rights. In: ruediger-nehberg.de. April 2, 2020, archived from the original on April 2, 2020 ; accessed on April 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Adventure on the Blue Nile and the Omo River. In: Rüdiger Nehberg's website. Retrieved July 25, 2011; see. also Rüdiger Nehberg: Adventure Adventure: Blue Nile and Rudolfsee. Kabel, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-921909-61-9 .
  4. ^ Rüdiger Nehberg: Adventure Adventure: Blue Nile and Rudolfsee. Kabel, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-921909-61-9 .
  5. ^ Rüdiger Nehberg - The Tree. In: speyer.technik-museum.de. Technik Museum Speyer, accessed on June 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Will genital mutilation ever stop? - In Cairo, Islamic scholars decide on a ban. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 23, 2006, accessed November 24, 2006 .
  7. ↑ Amira El Ahl: "In the most beautiful proportions". (PDF; 418 KiB) In: amiraelahl.com. Der Spiegel , December 4, 2006, pp. 138–140 , accessed on June 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Adventurer Rüdiger Nehberg marries his partner. August 28, 2009, accessed April 3, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Daughter Kirsten speaks after Rüdiger Nehberg's death: Dad will stay in my heart forever , bild.de, April 4, 2020
  10. ↑ Zeitlese: With Hirschtalg, without Maggi , Die Zeit No. 45/1987, October 30, 1987
  11. ↑ Great survivor Rüdiger Nehberg died at the age of 84. In: express.de. DuMont.next GmbH, April 2, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2020 .
  12. ↑ dpa / epd / kami: Rüdiger Nehberg receives the Federal Cross of Merit. In: Welt Online. Axel Springer SE, January 21, 2008, accessed on January 22, 2008 .
  13. ↑ Urania Medal 2015: Annette and Rüdiger Nehberg. In: Urania.de. Urania Berlin eV, 2015, accessed on May 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Nehberg, Rudiger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sir Vival (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German survival expert, human rights activist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2020
Place of death Rausdorf (Holstein)