Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 13
Why did you feel getting this degree was important to you?… Read More
Why did you feel getting this degree was important to you?… Read More
Well, I went to bond to take up the study of zoology or biology, and I was much disappointed that all these interesting animals like gaffes, like hippos, like great Abe, like elephants, they don’t play any role in a university study. So I looked around and, and one the… Read More
But when you were, before you went to the university, the only zoo you had seen was cologne or no other Zoos?… Read More
But when I was in director here many years later, more than 30 years later, I thought, this is not anymore. What do you say, up to date nowadays we have different opinions, how to keep polar bears and I stopped them the whole thing. When you, so you’re going… Read More
Good, good question. Doff had a zoo destroyed and never rebuild after the war. So my first visit to the zoo was to book. And I was much impressed by ELAs, by polar bears, by great apes, and so on. From the beginning on I was enthusiastic about zoo animals. Read More
That’s, This is establishment where children mostly don’t have any parents or don’t have only one parent are housed and school and et cetera. And I was not very happy there. So I was glad after some years that I could leave the, this establishment and was brought up in… Read More
In a barrack castle. And it’s wonderful. The whole university is in the castle. But the Zoological Institute was in a separate little class. And I liked it very much and did my studies. And when I finished my studies, I was sent to Afghanistan. We had an affiliation, I… Read More
Is it called internet?… Read More
And of course I had to to follow her, but she didn’t have a a an own apartment. This was a, a rented room, furnish room, that’s it for many years until she got the first living apartment. And I was put into internet. Read More
Now, my mother first found a job in hort nearby at the company where she had worked for before the war in Claw Fuko. And where she became known to my father. And they got married in 1973. And this was in August? No, it is not true. It was… Read More
And our house later on was in, in fact in destroyed. And I was brought up in a small village with four farm farms. There was nothing else. No church, no what you say, guest house or something like that. No restaurant. So this was a time which I enjoyed… Read More
Well, after the war, my father died 1943 when I was one year in the war. I don’t have any memory of him. So my mother brought me up on her own. She never married again and she had to earn her life and her money and to bring me… Read More
What was your childhood like?… Read More
I’m sorry, Your childhood? What Was your childhood?… Read More
My name is Gunther Nogge. I was born 10th of January in 1942 at Cologne. Read More
Thank you. You’re welcome. I. Read More
We, if you, if you’re doing the job properly, you have an international network, you’ve got mates all over the world. I mean, you and I haven’t seen each other for God knows how long. I think it might have been the conference at Painting Zoo, I think it was… Read More
How’s it like to be remembered? Your legacy?… Read More
In my wildest dreams be be being in Rem remembered in the same breath as Hegar. That’d be quite nice. Don’t think that’s gonna happen though. Being remembered as someone who, who made a difference, achieving some things. Maybe a couple of big things that affecting, you know, doing my… Read More
Yeah, I know that as frustrating as it can often be, we, if we are in the, in in the game, we are fully paid up members of the or, or should I say, we are not fully paid up members of the, thank God it’s Friday Club, we all… Read More