Well, of course, fundraising for new exhibits and so on is in this part as well. We hardly could and, and other thing would be to attract buses bringing 50 people or so per bus. But this was very difficult in Frankfurt since we have had hardly any parking lots,… Read More
Well, what we have done?… Read More
Well, we made posters, we made special days. For example, we had a program, adopt an animal, that is almost every zoo nowadays. And we made a day for them. Or other days, special children’s day, or a special zoo day and this again was announced in the press. We… Read More
Be careful but it’s again, it’s a benefit for both sides. A politician can become more popular and the zoo profits, if important people attend the meeting and say a few words. Usually, the zoo director has to write what she’s going to say. But this Lord Mayor and I… Read More
Did you do any other techniques or things for marketing the zoo that helped your budget?… Read More
And she already laughed and I sent her flowers the next day. And what was especially typical, her personal secretary told me next day, you see, this bite wasn’t too bad. My Lord Mayor is for the first time covered all over Germany in the press. So that was how… Read More
So what did you learn out of this?… Read More
Can you tell me the story about the press and how it involved the Lord Mayor?… Read More
My wife used to work as a editor of a daily newspaper in Switzerland. And so she always was my advisor with press meetings, what title should I use and so on. And, of course, one of the advice is to invite important politicians to showing press meetings, as openings… Read More
And she has that very nice clothes and high heeled shoes. So it was not practical very much for this occasion. And also the photographers said come closer, come closer, closer to the water. And she actually wasn’t on the shoreline and had a fish in her left hand and… Read More
How would you like to be remembered?… Read More
I hope that some people will recognize some of the achievements I did and I’m very proud that after retirement, I got the Arthur Award for Professional Excellence, showing that some of my colleagues esteem what I did. Read More
But if we really wouldn’t need these tasks of the zoo, then I think we would be in balance with nature but this can not be achieved with big cities. And therefore, I see a great and bright future for zoos. Read More
What do you know about the profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
Well, it’s a difficult and hard profession. Especially, the most difficulties usually arise with humans. But it’s a profession, if you see, after a lot of work, a young animal growing up, it’s a wonderful, wonderful profession as well. I wouldn’t like to miss it. Read More
My?… Read More
in your zoo career. I think it’s a combination of things I already reached in Zurich Zoo to what I reached in Frankfurt. For example, well, if I have to select one thing, I probably would say in Frankfurt, we have bred three southern black rhinos, all females. And I… Read More
The sentence is, the best world would be a world where zoos are not necessary. But we need them for our visitors for recreation. We need them for information education. We need them for research. And we need them for conservation. And therefore, we need zoos. And new zoos will… Read More
One pregnant female that gave birth, I think, to about eight offspring, of which about half survived. And this is the founder population of the billions and billions of golden hamsters we have nowadays. I fully admit that probably our golden hamsters that are domesticated, in the meantime, probably wouldn’t… Read More
What’s your proudest accomplishment in your zoo career?… Read More