Der Dschungelläufer - Rüdiger Nehberg
The man who many only be used as earthworms eating spinner, has through jungle regions, shimmering salt deserts, fighting foaming rapids, and it survived fifteen armed robberies. At the beginning of 1935 Nehberg born adventurer is only a sideline: he earns his bread for years as a pastry chef. He, who as a child in the dark cellar trust defeats in 1975 with a folding boat of the Blue Nile, crossing the Danakil Desert, crossed the Atlantic in a pedal boat and a tree trunk. Nehberg was looking like no other danger, and they always survived. Have not always been good: In Ethiopia, he loses a friend, who was shot by robbers in front of his eyes. In 1981, he makes known its own "Survival" in Germany, as he crosses the country from north to south. The rules: no special equipment, only the living, which is found on the road, do not violate any laws, not beg, respect nature. Today Nehberg uses his popularity to humanitarian concerns. His motto: "give meaning to the adventure."
Der Dschungelläufer - Rüdiger Nehberg - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Christian Weisenborn |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer
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Program director: | Gerolf Karwath, Thomas Fischer |
Location manager: | Sonja Maxeiner |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel, Ingrid Eckerle |
Executive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
To be aired on: | 31.03.2003, ARD |
Produced for: | SWR und Arte |
Der Greenpeace-Macher – David Mc Taggert
David McTaggart was an adventurer with a mission. He put his life in the service of environmental protection. The Canadians born in 1932 formed the environmental organization Greenpeace, and turned it into a formidable lobbying by industry and government machine. With his late forties from the contractor a dropout who aimlessly umhersteuert his sailboat. As in 1973 more by chance a handful of activists to support the French nuclear tests in the Pacific, the daredevil has found his life's work. From the hippie crowd called McTaggart, Greenpeace makes a powerful public relations company that mobilizes the public with spectacular actions to halt the nuclear tests. In 1985 he wins a spectacular victory when he discovers that it was the French secret service, of the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior" sunk in Auckland Harbour. But success has its price. McTaggart's personal life is marked by broken marriages, countless affairs and guilt feelings towards his children, whom he cared little.
Der Greenpeace-Macher – David Mc Taggert - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Ingo Helm |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer
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Program director: | Gerolf Karwath, Thomas Fischer |
Supervisory program director | Thomas Fischer |
Location manager: | Sonja Maxeiner |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel, Ingrid Eckerle |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
To be aired on: | 02.04.2003,23.30 Uhr, ARD |
Produced for: | SWR und Arte |
Der Firefighter - Red Adair
Paul Neal "Red" Adair is the most famous firefighter in the world. Countless burning oil wells and gas jets exploded while he has deleted more than once risked his head. In the thirties, Adair, born in 1915, goes into the oil business and is a legend when he completely alone a "blow-out, the sudden explosion of an oil well, bring under control. "Give me enough dynamite and I'll blow out the fire of hell" - that is his motto. He aroused worldwide attention in 1962 when he tames the Sahara in a 250 meter-high fountain of burning gas. In 1991 after the Gulf War in Kuwait are 500 oil wells on fire, it is again Red Adair, who is called to coordinate the unloading process, and thus helping to prevent an environmental disaster, huge proportions. Privately, he searches the thrills: in car and boat races, drinking bouts, and fights with his friends. Today, the multi-millionaire is living quietly at his ranch in Texas.
Der Firefighter - Red Adair - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Michael Wulfes |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer
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Program director: | Gerolf Karwath, Thomas Fischer |
Supervisory program director: | Thomas Fischer
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Location manager: | Sonja Maxeiner |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel, Ingrid Eckerle |
Executive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
To be aired on: | 07.04.2003, ARD |
Produced for: | SWR und Arte |
Der Eiswanderer - Arved Fuchs
Arved Fuchs made the adventure into a career. The fifty year old North German has crossed Greenland, Cape Horn and sailed through the dangerous sea, circled the world. He is the only one who has gone in one year to the North Pole and South Pole. But his goal is not records, but an intense experience and the satisfaction of a deep curiosity. 1979, on his first Arctic expedition, Fox spent several months with the Inuit. From them he learns, at temperatures of minus 50 degrees, with snow and cold to survive, and he begins to love this icy, inhospitable land. In 1989 he crossed together with Reinhold Messner Antarctica on foot. This 92-day forced march made him known, but the subsequent media frenzy drives a deep wedge between him and Messner. Dozens of expeditions to follow on your own, whether in the footsteps of Shackleton in the Arctic Ocean, whether with an old whaling ship through the Northeast Passage, whether around the American continent: the fox has survived all the dangers because he always the risk accurately calculated. And he is - as friends attest - it remained enviably normal.
Der Eiswanderer - Arved Fuchs - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Gunther Scholz |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer
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Program director: | Gerolf Karwath, Thomas Fischer |
Supervisory program director: | Thomas Fischer |
Location manager: | Sonja Maxeiner |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel, Ingrid Eckerle |
Executive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
To be aired on: | 11.06.2003, ARD |
Produced for: | SWR und Arte |
