Bernhard Grzimek
Director · 1909 – 1987 · Neisse, Silesia, Germany [now Nysa, Opolskie, Poland]
Bernhard Grzimek was a German veterinarian, zoologist, animal rights activist, and behavioral scientist, long-time director of Frankfurt Zoo, wildlife filmmaker, author and editor of animal books, an encyclopedia of the animal kingdom named after him, and president of the Frankfurt Zoological Society. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was Germany's best-known animal expert, regularly appearing on television programs for Hessischer Rundfunk. His documentary film Serengeti Shall Not Die was the first German film after World War II to win an Oscar in 1960. He initially published under the pseudonym Clemens Hoffbauer.
Series7
- TV7.3Talk Show
Die Drehscheibe
1964 · 3 votes
TV7.0DocumentaryPlanet Wissen
2002 · 1 votes
- TV6.3NewsComedy
Zum blauen Bock
1957 · 3 votes
TV7.0Talk ShowHeut' abend
1980 · 1 votes
TV8.0RealityAuf los geht's los
1977 · 2 votes
- TVTalk Show
- TVDocumentary
Movies2
Movie6.5DocumentaryThe film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration wanted to fence in the protected area around the Ngorongoro Crater. Bernhard and Michael Grzimek were invited by the national park administration in 1957 to get a precise picture of the animal migrations and to provide the national park administration with the values they needed for their project. Using a new counting method with two airplanes, the Grzimeks found out that the migration of the herds was different than assumed.
- MovieDocumentaryComedy
Hochkant
1982