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Hans Martin Götz
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| He was born in 1953 and had already begun, at the age of 16, to go to the mountains as a climber. After finishing high school, he studied theology and finished his training as an authorized state mountain and skiing guide. In the middle of the 1970s, he travelled for the first time to the Cerro Torre in Patagonia where he met the legendary American top climbers Yvon Chouinard and Jim Bridwell. He then became the general importer of Chouinard for Europe. At the same time, he was a member of the television editorial staff of Bavarian Broadcasting for the series “Bergauf Bergab” by Hermann Magerer. At this time, he tried to balance his creative passions for filmmaking and mountaineering with successful economic activities. He was only partially successful, finally turning to the commercial interests. Today he talks about a return to his beginning, after having left the sports equipment sector in the mid-1990s and having moved with his family to Arco in northern Italy to run a guesthouse there. Presently, regular trips have taken him to first ascents in Greenland and in the Antarctic. |
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Joey Papazian
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| Joey was born in Fresno, California, near Yosemite National Park. He studied forestry and agriculture and moved to Yosemite National Park. He spent several years conducting research in the Sierra Nevada. At the age of fourteen, he climbed his first Big Wall on El Capitan. Since then he has developed a strong attraction to the mountains and to nature. Ever since, he has used every free minute to climb on his beloved El Cap but during the winter season, he works as a snowboard professional in Salt Lake City. He has undertaken numerous journeys to snowboard in the Himalayas and in Russia. For some time, he has developed a strong passion for producing mountain films and has worked as an assistant to the director on the IMAX film production of David Breashears on Kilimanjaro. |
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Klaus Haselböck
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| The chief editor of the Outdoor Magazine “Land der Berge” was born in 1970 in St. Pölten, Austria. He studied German and Journalism in Vienna and he is currently a PR-consultant. He can look back on more than ten years of professional experience as a journalist and photographer, with a main emphasis on alpinism. As a passionate but moderate mountaineer he has undertaken expanded trekking tours on five continents and was a member of the 1999 Northatlantic -Jan Majen film expedition. In the last years, he has concentrated on the topic of mountain films, and as an alternative to his work he loves diving and parachuting. |
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Robert Winkler
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| He was born in 1966 in Lienz in East Tyrol and has been in the mountains since his childhood. In his youth, Robert Winkler expressed two wishes for his future profession. At the age of six, he wanted to become a “nature explorer” and at twelve, a “cameraman”. His first film was a mountain film, which was shot with an S-8 mm camera, and his first feature film was also a mountain film. After finishing school in Lienz he worked as a structural engineer. He then started to study “camera” at the Vienna Film Academy.
Both of his childhood dreams were eventually fulfilled when he worked on several nature documentaries. He has also scientifically examined the “stroposcope effect”, and in 1991 he founded the film production company BONUSFILM. In 1992 he was awarded the Max Ophüls Preis for his film “Mein Russland” under the direction of Barbara Gräftner. Among his most important films are “The Survivor”; “Wenn der Berg ruft!” which won the Special Prize of the Jury in Graz in 1997; “Die Herren der Unterwelt”; “Null Defizit” and “Jahrhundertwende”. At the moment he is responsible for the second camera unit in the Austrian television series “Medicopter”. |
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Wolfgang Ebert
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| Wolfgang Ebert, chief director of the department for “Culture” for the German television broadcasting company ZDF, was born in 1940 and studied German language and literature, journalism and drama in Berlin where he received his doctorate. Early in his career, he began to work at ZDF. Then he was a freelance writer working for several television channels and specific magazines. Since 1974, he has been working in the culture division at ZDF and has produced numerous successful series such as “Journeys through hell”,“Under the Southern Cross” and “Hunters of Lost Treasures”. He is also passionate about literature and has written several works dealing with the field of cultural adventure. He received numerous awards for his work. Prizes from the Filmfest Oberhausen, the Adventure Film Festival Grenoble, Toulon, the Prix Futura in 1980, the Wilhelmine Lübke Preis in 1975, and the Grimme Preis twice. In 1999, he was also successful at the International Mountain & Adventure Film Festival Graz with his production “Lost in Grand Canyon”. |
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