Stefan Christmann

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Stefan Christmann (born October 6, 1983 in Koblenz ) is a German nature photographer and filmmaker .

Life

Stefan Christmann has been taking photographs since his youth. He specialized in nature and wildlife photography, taking photos in areas such as Yellowstone National Park . In 2005 he was the first international student to receive a grant from the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) . Christmann has worked in the field of camera, display and hardware development.

In 2012 Christmann spent 14 months as a geophysicist at the German research station Neumayer 3 in Antarctica . As one of about 350 Antarctic winterers in German polar research, he photographed the nature of the Antarctic during the southern polar winter.

In 2017 Christmann again traveled to Antarctica as an expedition photographer and camera assistant, as part of a film crew commissioned by the BBC to film the life of the emperor penguins in Atka Bay . Large parts of the footage were published in the BBC nature documentary BBC Dynasties at the end of 2018 (in German under the title Wilde Dynastien ). The film crew received special media attention because they were rescued from trapped penguins by shoveling an ice ramp, which the birds used to return to the colony.

Christmann celebrated his greatest success so far in a photography competition in 2019 when he won the Wildlife Photographer Portfolio Award with a selection of emperor penguin photographs from the renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year (advertised by the Natural History Museum in London ). From a total of over 48,000 image submissions, the jury selected his portfolio as the best complete work in nature photography.

Prices

  • 2007: Winner of the MSU study abroad photo competition
  • 2010: Highlight at the Glanzlichter photo competition - image title “ Family from Mars ” in the category The Beauty of Plants
  • 2010: 7th place in the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2010 - "Mount Lichen" in the plant category
  • 2011: 7th place at the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2011 - "Abstract Deadwood" in the landscape category
  • 2012: Highlight at the Memorial Maria Luisa photo competition - picture of an iceberg on the sea ice with the title " Rabbit Iceberg " in the category for landscapes
  • 2013: Highlight at the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year - picture of young emperor penguin chicks with the title " Gruppekuscheln / Group Hug "
  • 2013: Highlight at Nature's Best photo competition - picture of young emperor penguin chicks with the title " Gruppekuscheln / Group Hug "
  • 2014: Highlight at the Glanzlichter photo competition - picture of an emperor penguin colony under the northern lights with the title " Disco Antarctic Style "
  • 2014: Highlight at the European Nature Photographer of the Year - picture of a frozen emperor penguin chick with the title " Wind has won "
  • 2015: Highlight at the Glanzlichter photo competition - picture of young emperor penguin chicks with the title " Gruppekuscheln / Group Hug "
  • 2018: Finalist at the Australian Antarctic Festival photo competition - picture of an Adelie penguin entitled " Adelies crack me up "
  • 2019: 8th place at GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2019 - " Power Nap " in the mammals category
  • 2019: Winner of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2019 - " What'cha got? " In the birds category
  • 2019: Winner of Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice Photo Contest in the " Polar Passion " category
  • 2019: Highlight at the European Nature Photographer of the Year - picture of an emperor penguin on the feet of a penguin with the title " Das Ei / The Egg "
  • 2019: Winner of the Wildlife Photographer Portfolio Award in the 55th edition of the NHM Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Publications

  • with Heiderose Fischer-Nagel, Andreas Fischer-Nagel: In the realm of the penguins. Verlag Fischer-Nagel, 2015, ISBN 978-3-93003847-3 .
  • Design and implementation of an FPGA-driven, hardware-based realtime data reduction system for pixelated photon detectors , diploma thesis University of Tübingen, June 2011.
  • Gastrointestinal parasite fauna of Emperor Penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) at the Atka Bay, Antarctica. Parasitology Research , November 2014, Volume 113, Issue 11, pp. 4133-4139.

social commitment

  • Co-founder of the GDT youth group in 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Christmann: Profile | Stefan Christmann - nature photographer | Nature in Focus | Nature photography. (No longer available online.) In: www.nature-in-focus.de. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; Retrieved April 3, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nature-in-focus.de
  2. ↑ Stefan Christmann: Design and implementation of an FPGA-driven, hardware-based realtime data reduction system for pixelated photon detectors . Ed .: Stefan Christmann. Tübingen 2011.
  3. ↑ Uewis erzaehlen-Geophysik - AWI. In: www.awi.de. Retrieved April 5, 2016 .
  4. ^ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Physicist and photographer from Geislingen: Because of the penguins in the Antarctic. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ WDR: Dramatic and intense - the five-part film series “Wild Dynasties” about animal families starts on March 18 at 8:15 pm in the Erste - Press Lounge - WDR. March 12, 2019, accessed September 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ BBC One - Dynasties - A filmmaker's dilemma. Retrieved September 8, 2019 (UK English).
  7. ↑ Nicola Methven: Heart-warming tale: penguins rescued by BBC crew from an icy grave. November 16, 2018, accessed September 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Documentary filmmakers save penguins in need - viewers cheer and cry. November 19, 2018, accessed September 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 winning images. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b c Nature in Focus. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; Retrieved April 3, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nature-in-focus.de
  11. ↑ Highlight 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
  12. ^ Memorial Maria Luisa - Mountain and Nature Photograph Contest. In: www.memorialmarialuisa.com. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
  13. ^ GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013. Accessed April 3, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Codrops: 2013 Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards - Winners and Highly Honored Photos. (No longer available online.) In: naturalhistory.si.edu. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; Retrieved April 3, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / naturalhistory.si.edu
  15. ↑ Highlights 2015. Accessed April 3, 2016 .
  16. ↑ GDT European Nature Photographer of the Year 2014. Accessed April 3, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Highlights 2015. Accessed April 3, 2016 .
  18. ↑ creatues of the Cold. In: The Guardian. The Guardian, August 14, 2018, accessed September 8, 2019 .
  19. ↑ a b GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2019 - The Results. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  20. ↑ 2019 Windland Smith Rice Awards. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  21. ↑ GDT Society for Nature Photography eV Accessed on October 30, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Adult awards | 2019 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  23. ↑ GDT youth group | Lünen 2009. In: gdtfoto.de. Retrieved May 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Christmann, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nature photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz