Uwe George

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Uwe George (born April 1, 1940 in Kiel ) is a German journalist , researcher and book author .

Life

In the 1960s, George researched the special breeding behavior of desert birds in the Sahara and wrote ornithological writings on it.

In 1967 he learned the craft of the cameraman at Norddeutscher Rundfunk and in 1971 won the Adolf Grimme Prize for a TV documentary about the Sahara from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft . He subsequently produced another 15 documentaries on the exploration of the desert and the ecology of the tropical rainforest and published his first book in 1976, In den Wüsten This Earth (Hoffmann and Campe). In 1978 Richard and Clara Winston received the US National Book Award for translating this book into English.

From 1976 on he worked as a freelancer for the German magazine GEO , from 1979 as a permanent employee, scientific editor, photographer and expedition leader. He has published numerous books and won several gold medals for photography. In 1993 he received the Journalism Prize from the Academy for Geosciences .

George has been an honorary member of the Frankfurt Geographical Society since 1998 and received the Werner and Inge Grüter Prize for science communication in 2000 .

Fonts

  • In the deserts of this earth, Hoffmann and Campe 1976
  • The desert - advance to the limits of life, Gruner and Jahr, Geo series, 5th edition 2001
  • Expeditions into the primeval world, Geo series
  • Rainforest - Advancing into the Tropical Universe, Geo series 1985
  • Islands in Time - Venezuela Expeditions to the Last White Spots on Earth, Geo Series 1988
  • with Peter-Matthias Gaede (editor): Sahara - Expeditions through space and time, Gruner and year, Geo series, 2001
  • Birth of an Ocean, Geo Series, 1982
  • Sahara: the lost sea. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980,1, pp. 32-60. Informative experience report. ISSN  0342-8311

swell

  • Alexander Smoltczyk: A dreamer on the ground of facts . In: GEO 10/96, Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg, pp. 134–146.
  • Interview with Uwe George: 4-Seasons 02/2001 (PDF file; 989 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. a b Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. "Women who've Won the National Book Award" ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . National Book Foundation. March 19, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalbook.org
  3. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. Press report ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2007 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. and science information service @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geo.de

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