Awards & Winners

Heinz Sielmann

Date of Birth 02-June-1917
Place of Birth Rheydt
(Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia)
Nationality Germany
Profession Photographer, Film Director, Cinematographer, Screenwriter
Heinz Sielmann was a world renowned wildlife photographer, biologist, zoologist and documentary filmmaker. His first film, in 1938, was a silent movie on birdlife in East Prussia and the Klaipėda Region. Further work was interrupted by the war. He was initially stationed in occupied Poznán, as an instructor at a radio-communications training unit of the Luftwaffe. Sielmann was degree in Biology and specialized in Zoology, in 1940, at the Imperial Posen University.[2], at that time a Germanized University. Later, he was stationed in Crete where he was able to work cinematographically. After the war he began widely recognized work for the Educational Film Institute of the States of Germany. His feature film about woodpeckers, "Carpenters of the forest" was a huge success in the United Kingdom when broadcast by the BBC at the behest of David Attenborough. It earned Sielmann the nickname "Mr. Woodpecker". His work includes award-winning movies like Lords of the Forest

Awards by Heinz Sielmann

Check all the awards nominated and won by Heinz Sielmann.

1962


German Film Award for Best Cultural Film or Documentary
Honored for : Galapagos - Trauminsel im Pazifik

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award for Best Cultural Film or Documentary Galapagos - Trauminsel im Pazifik

1956


German Film Award in Silver for Best Documentary - Black and White
Honored for : Die Iltiskoppel
(Institut für Bild und Film)

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award in Silver for Best Documentary - Black and White Die Iltiskoppel
Institut für Bild und Film

1955


German Film Award in Silver for Best Cultural Film - Black and White
Honored for : Zimmerleute des Waldes

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award in Silver for Best Cultural Film - Black and White Zimmerleute des Waldes

1954


German Film Award in Silver for Best Cultural Film - Black and White
Honored for : Konzert am Tümpel

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award in Silver for Best Cultural Film - Black and White Konzert am Tümpel

1953


German Film Director's Award in Silver for Best Direction
Honored for : Quick - das Eichhörnchen

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Director's Award in Silver for Best Direction Quick - das Eichhörnchen