Uwe George

Uwe George is a prize-winning German journalist, author and researcher, born in Kiel, Germany on April 1st, 1940.

In the nineteensixties, George performed lengthy research in the Sahara Desert as an ornithologist, writing several publications on the special breeding biology of desert birds.

1967 he learned the trade of cameraman in the Norddeutscher Rundfunk and won the Adolf-Grimme-Prize for a television documentation on the Sahara in 1970.

He produced another 15 documentary movies about desert research and the ecology of the tropical rain forest, publishing his first book in 1976. In 1977, George received the American National Book Award [1] for a book publication in the USA ("In the Deserts of This Earth"). From 1976 on, he worked as a free employee for the German GEO (magazine).

Employed at "GEO" on a regular basis since 1979, as science editor, photographer and expedition officer, George has been the author of numerous books and won several gold medals for photography. 1993 he was awarded the Journalist Prize of the "Akademie für Geowissenschaften" (Academy for Geoscience). He is honorary member of the Geographische Gesellschaft (Geographical Society) since 1998, winning the Werner-Grüter-Prize for scientific journalism in 2000.

Sources

• Interview with Uwe George (2005, pdf, German)