Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 21
And were the zoo receptive to receiving your advice?… Read More
And were the zoo receptive to receiving your advice?… Read More
Did you feel that your time as a animal keeper at Cologne to help give you some knowledge and Of course – That you felt you could do this other job of advising the zoo?… Read More
Yes. And you became the scientific advisor, is that correct?… Read More
Yes, The zoo, Yes. And Practically I was a director of the zoo. There was nobody else, but my main job was those and at the university and on the sideline I managed the zoo, which was connected, which was founded by the university. Read More
But yet, am I correct, in 1965, you were an assistant animal keeper?… Read More
Yes, At the Cologne Zoo During my study when I was a student, I worked here as a animal keeper and learned very much because I was allowed to work in with the elephants, with great apes, even with birds, with hoofed stock. So I got a quite good overview… 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 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
But when you were, before you went to the university, the only zoo you had seen was cologne or no other Zoos?… 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
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
Is it called internet?… 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
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
I’m sorry, Your childhood? What Was your childhood?… Read More
What was your childhood like?… Read More