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Michael Grzimek (12 April 1934 – 10 January 1959) was a West German zoologist, conservationist and filmmaker. Life. Michael Grzimek was the second son of Bernhard Grzimek and Hildegard Prüfer. Already as a child, he assisted his father in his research of wolves and dogs.
Michael Grzimek (1934-1959) war der Sohn des bekannten Tierarztes und Verhaltensforschers Bernhard Grzimek. Er machte Filme und Forschungen über die Tierwanderungen in der Serengeti, starb aber bei einem Flugzeugabsturz.
Jan 17, 2018 · Tragically, young Michael Grzimek died aged 24 when his aircraft collided with a vulture and crashed. One year later, in 1960, Michael and Bernhard’s movie “The Serengeti Shall Not Die” won an Academy Award in the category “Best Documentary”.
He married Hildegard Prüfer on 17 May 1930 and had three sons: Rochus, Michael, and an adopted son, Thomas. In 1978, Bernhard Grzimek married Erika Grzimek, his son Michael's widow, and adopted the two children Stephan Michael (b. 1956), and Christian Bernhard (b. 1959, after Michael's death).
At the end of 1957, Bernhard Grzimek and his son Michael traveled from Egelsbach in Hesse to Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in a small zebra-striped plane with the registration code D-ENTE. The father-and-son team were keen to explore the great migration of wildebeest, zebra and antelope in the Serengeti.
May 15, 2016 · In 1957 Bernhard Grizmek, director of the Frankfurt Zoo, traveled to East Africa with his son Michael to conduct aerial surveys of the Serengeti, particularly of the wildebeest migration, in order to determine boundaries for the newly-established national park.
Michael Grzimek was born on 12 April 1934 in Berlin, Germany. Michael was a director and cinematographer, known for Bambuti (1956), Schwalben am Spieß (1958) and Serengeti (1959). Michael died on 10 January 1959 in Serengeti Desert, Tanganjika, Africa [now Tansania, Africa].
