Der Jäger des Killervirus
In the scrub forests of Uganda and the jungles of the Congo, lurks one of the most dangerous enemies of mankind: Ebola. About every two to three years is provided by the horrifying death of virus epidemics in order to trace back to disappear in the bush. To date, researchers speculate viruses, in which animal hides Ebola before it jumps again to a man. The doctor and epidemiologist Matthias Borchert has included the trace of the killer virus, and in search of the origins and for survivors of recent eruptions, with the aim of detecting Ebolas hide and catch the so-called "host" of the virus. The film shows the meetings of the researcher with magicians, gold seekers and pygmies. And he documents the dramatic moment in the advancing of the scientists in the maze of an abandoned gold mine, the possible hiding place of the virulent virus in the world.
Der Jäger des Killervirus - Backstage
Concept: | Gisela Graichen |
Written and directed by: | Thomas Hies |
Director of photography: | Steffen Böttrich |
Film editor: | Sergios Roth |
Narrator: | Thomas Fritsch |
Location manager: | Sven Heiligenstein |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel, Donald Jenichen |
Program manager: | Gudrun Ziegler |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Produced for: | ZDF, 2002 |
To be aired on: | 23.02.2003 ZDF |
Wenn die Götter Feuer speien
The Fuji is the holy mountain in Japan. He exudes a deceptive calm. The "most beautiful volcano in the world" is only 50 kilometers from Tokyo. If it explodes, do millions of people to hell on the doorstep. 200 000 victims of the volcanic activity demanded in the last 200 years. Scientists are working feverishly around the world in effective early warning systems. The Munich volcanologist Professor Donald Dingwell has included the race against time to the next outbreak of predictability and to prevent a deadly catastrophe like 1991: On ounces in Japan raced a pyroclastic flow, a pyroclastic flow of 200 kilometers per hour to the valley and destroyed everything what you put in your way. 43 people were killed, thousands were left homeless. The anthropologist Professor Peter Knecht explores how the Japanese deal for centuries with the phenomenon, as it has found its way into their religion. He visits the Itakos, blind women who take up the volcano Osor contact with the deceased. You think: can warn the ancestors, if you listen to them properly. The volcano is considered by many Japanese as the residence of the deceased. In a Shinto shrine servant discovered a sacred stone, which will be the legend on a fish. If the fish moves, the earth quakes, the mountains spew fire, so it wants a centuries old tradition. And indeed, scientists have now evidence that minimal water movement are the first harbingers of an outbreak in the interior of the volcano.
Wenn die Götter Feuer speien - Backstage
Concept: | Gisela Graichen |
Written and directed by: | Peter Prestel |
Director of photography: | Steffen Böttrich |
Film editor: | Susanne Strobel |
Narrator: | Thomas Fritsch |
Location manager: | Sven Heiligenstein, Yukiko Shimahara |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Program manager: | Gudrun Ziegler |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Produced for: | ZDF, 2002 |
To be aired on: | 02.03.2003 ZDF |
Atlantis der Wüste
It says: When God divided the world into earth and sea, he left the Arabian Peninsula as Rub 'Al-Khali, as an empty center - uninhabitable and impenetrable. The Sultanate of Oman is situated in the extreme southeast of the Arabian peninsula at the edge of the Empty Quarter. Large parts of the country consists of desert and barren mountains. Life there is only possible in oases. Neither the extreme differences in temperature - 50 degrees in the shade during the day and minus 10 degrees at night - even the barely measurable precipitation could drive out the inhabitants of oases. On the contrary, the oasis of Oman developed into thriving cities. The Tübingen Islamic scholar Professor Heinz Gaube and architectural historian Professor Michael Jansen from the Technical University of Aachen are searching for the secret of the oases of Rub'Al-Khali. How could there emerge under these hostile conditions, such a rich and powerful culture? One of the most famous oasis was already mentioned in the Quran city of Ubar, created by Lawrence of Arabia, "the Atlantis of the desert called" medieval authors and compared with paradise. Satellite images revealed ancient caravan routes, which met at a certain point. Under the sand they found the remains of a large settlement. Were these the remains of the famous Ubar, which was destroyed in 300 AD? A chance discovery brought dormer on the right track: in a dilapidated ghost town, he found more than 8,000 letters from the early 19th Century, the complete correspondence of the Sheikh Murzin al Abri, the then sheikh of the oasis.
Atlantis der Wüste - Backstage
Concept: | Gisela Graichen |
Written and directed by: | Marc Eberle |
Director of photography: | Roland Breitschuh |
Film editor: | Frank Höwner, Marlies Kaesler
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Narrator: | Thomas Fritsch |
Location manager: | Sven Heiligenstein |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Program manager: | Gudrun Ziegler |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Produced for: | ZDF, 2002 |
To be aired on: | 09.03.2003 ZDF |
Im Reich der Chagga
When Portuguese navigators in the 17th Century, the east coast of Africa reached, told them Arab slave traders two wonders of the interior. There were a mountain with a cap made of pure silver, and on its slopes, the water flows uphill. The first puzzle had solved the white researchers quickly: It is the eternal snow on the nearly 6,000-meter summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. The second miracle is now a professor from Germany on the trail: Christoph Winter, anthropologist at the University of Bayreuth, has been studied for several years, the irrigation system of the Chagga, who live on the slopes of Kilimanjaro for hundreds of years. He came across a lost civilization. The Chagga dominated not only a highly sophisticated irrigation system that brings in some places really look as if the water flows uphill, so that they intensified their agriculture, making it one of the most effective in Africa. To explore the world in the kingdom of the Chagga from different sides, took the winter, the zoologist and biologist Claudia and Andreas Hemp for Kilimanjaro. The Bayreuth scientists discovered the highest freestanding mountain in the world, many previously unknown animal and plant species, their development and behavior changes they are investigating. Because paradise is threatened. Global climate change can melt the glaciers at the summit. After Hemps projections, there will be no more snow on Kilimanjaro in 2020.
Atlantis der Wüste - Backstage
Concept: | Gisela Graichen |
Written and directed by: | Peter Prestel
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Director of photography: | Andreas Baumberger |
Film editor: | Susanne Strobel
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Narrator: | Thomas Fritsch |
Location manager: | Sven Heiligenstein, David Kyungu |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Program manager: | Gudrun Ziegler |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Produced for: | ZDF, 2002 |
To be aired on: | 6.03.2003 ZDF |
Die Jagd nach den Feuerzwergen
Die Jagd nach den Feuerzwergen - Backstage
Concept: | Gisela Graichen |
Written and directed by: | Andreas Orth |
Director of photography: | Roland Breitschuh |
Film editor: | Holger Schmidt, Jens Warnecke |
Narrator: | Mark Bremer |
Location manager: | Andreas Latz |
Production manager: | Mareen Witte, Donald Jenichen |
Program manager: | Gudrun Ziegler |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Produced for: | ZDF, 2000 |
To be aired on: | 07.01.2001 ZDF |
Nachrichten für die Ewigkeit
Nachrichten für die Ewigkeit - Backstage
Concept: | Gisela Graichen |
Written and directed by: | Peter Prestel |
Director of photography: | Steffen Böttrich |
Film editor: | Susanne Strobel |
Narrator: | Mark Bremer |
Location manager: | Andreas Latz |
Production manager: | Mareen Witte, Donald Jenichen |
Program manager: | Gudrun Ziegler |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Produced for: | ZDF, 2000 |
To be aired on: | 14.01.2001 ZDF |
Die aus dem Weltall kommen
Die aus dem Weltall kommen - Backstage
Concept: | Gisela Graichen |
Written and directed by: | Jens Dücker |
Director of photography: | Holger Schüppel |
Film editor: | Marion Schurich |
Narrator: | Mark Bremer |
Location manager: | Andreas Latz |
Production manager: | Mareen Witte, Donald Jenichen |
Program manager: | Gudrun Ziegler |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Produced for: | ZDF, 2000 |
To be aired on: | 21.01.2001 ZDF |
Im Tal der Hundertjährigen
Im Tal der Hundertjährigen - Backstage
Concept: | Gisela Graichen |
Written and directed by: | Peter Prestel |
Director of photography: | Steffen Böttrich |
Film editor: | Susanne Strobel |
Narrator: | Mark Bremer |
Location manager: | Andreas Latz |
Production manager: | Mareen Witte, Donald Jenichen |
Program manager: | Gudrun Ziegler |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Produced for: | ZDF, 2000 |
To be aired on: | 28.01.2001 ZDF |
