So a lot of nature productions and we can now get, I think, over 100 programs. And in the time of Heini Hediger and Grzimek, there were two or three TV stations, so it’s totally different. At that time, I think Grzimek had a coverage of 30% or even more. Read More
How do you think those programs impact zoos, positively or negatively?… Read More
My original fear is that they might replace zoos. And of course, that’s a reasoning of animal rights people. We can travel to far countries, we have excellent films. But the cinema didn’t replace the theater. And it’s a totally different thing, a good animal film and a zoo. In… Read More
And more than the visitors, of all humans. Read More
What type of television or radio now occurs in Europe that relates around zoos or zoo animals?… Read More
Did something bite you while you were talking?… Read More
The only bite, and that was, in fact, the only accident I have had, was when a plains wiscotcha, a South American rodent, bit me in the right hand. I couldn’t write anymore for a few weeks. But this was off scene. But there is one incident during my Frankfurt… Read More
Not from the house, they were just in the keepers, they left their enclosure and entered the keepers gangway. But of course that was a critical situation. And I managed to finish the press conference without the press people discovering that the Bonobos escaped into the keepers gangway, and this… Read More
I was neither the killer nor the victim. Read More
Do you feel that, well, were there any memorable situations when you were on television?… Read More
Did any animal leave you when it shouldn’t have?… Read More
Well, it was not training as an actor, but I was asked to play a very small role in a TV production set. A murder show, that took place in Frankfurt Zoo, when I was director. And the scenario had the role of the zoo director and I was asked… Read More
Was the zoo director the killer?… Read More
Did you take to working in television and having to be in television easily?… Read More
Did it come easily for you?… Read More
Well, I started, Heini Hediger has had a row of TV shows and at that time, he always took an animal or a few animals into the TV studios and this I had to arrange, so I had some training. But I am rather a shy person and I do… Read More
Although, didn’t some of your formal training come as an actor?… Read More
When you were involved in the radio and television, was it significant in getting the word out about zoo animals and zoos and did these programs help?… Read More
I think it’s important and becoming even more important to get the news about zoos and the importance about zoos and saving species and doing conservation is becoming more and more important. Unfortunately, we never scientifically measured the impact of the shows in which I took part. Read More
I think they were not in one room. I think they took pictures in different places and then put together the program. Read More