For 25 years now, Andreas Kieling has been magically drawn to the call of the wild! Alaska - What longing lies in this name. Wilderness - adventure - challenge - boundless freedom - self-awareness. Here man plays only a supporting role. Here nature has the say. Bears, wolves, moose, eagles - they all still live in this land as they did ages ago.
For a long time Andreas has lived with wild grizzlies and wolves. Some of the brown giants have even developed a relationship of trust with him. The footage seems almost surreal as Andreas moves between the heaviest predators on earth or films and photographs a female bear with cubs.
The long, cold and above all dark winters in Alaska drive Andreas Kieling again and again to other regions of the earth. Africa always amazes the wildlife filmmaker anew. It is probably the continent where there is still the most to discover. The desert elephants of Namibia, mountain gorillas in Rwanda, the search for the last wolves of Africa in the highlands of Ethiopia are other highlights of the new live show.
Australia also holds a magical attraction for Andreas. The tropical north of the continent is home to the largest armoured lizards on earth - saltwater crocodiles. He has spent a lot of time with these primitive reptiles and time and again there have been breathtaking encounters. He was the first wildlife filmmaker in the world to dive with one of the large armored lizards and film it underwater. A film show for the whole family that you should not miss - live commentary by Andreas Kieling.
Adventurer & Wildlife filmmaker Andreas Kieling, born in Gotha, Thuringia, in 1959, fled the GDR in 1976 at the age of sixteen. He travelled through Greenland, mountain biked through the Himalayas, worked as a sailor and forester. Since 1990 Kieling has been travelling the world as a nature photographer and documentary filmmaker. For him, adventures are not an end in themselves; they serve him to document life in the wild, to learn from it without forgetting his own limitations.
Today, Andreas Kieling is one of Germany's best-known wildlife filmmakers; his films have won numerous awards. Above all, he got particularly close to the big grizzlies in his work. Hardly anyone has spent as much time with the brown giants and is as familiar with their habits and idiosyncrasies as he is. When brown bear Bruno kept Germany in suspense in the summer of 2006, Andreas Kieling was in the media many times as a bear expert.
For several months of the year he is on expeditions and filming trips around the globe, mainly in the sparsely populated areas of Alaska. The rest of the time Andreas Kieling lives with his family on a farm in the Eifel. He has published reports and photographs in numerous daily newspapers as well as major magazines such as "Geo" and "Stern". His films are broadcast worldwide on National Geographic Channel. He is known to German audiences for the ZDF series "Terra X: Kieling - Expeditions to the Last of Their Kind", among others. For the ARD three-parter "Abenteuer Erde - Yukon River" he was awarded the Panda Award, the Oscar of wildlife film.
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