A Focus on the Mountains
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| Date: | Friday 6 November |
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| Topics: | A Focus on the Mountains |
| Speakers: | Robert Bösch Leo Baumgartner Helmut Fuchs Günther Härter Heiner Oberrauch Maria Grazia Passini |
| Time: | 9.30 am – 12 pm |
| Place: | Forum Bressanone/Brixen – Prishna |
| Translation: | German - Italian - English |
| Tickets: | 10 Euro |
At the IMS:
"A Focus on the Mountains"
Each person's focus is different. That's why we have asked ourselves how a director, a painter, a photographer, a businessman and a writer might see the mountains. What does their perspective include? We look forward to an animated exchange of ideas and perspectives - all, of course, with a focus on the mountains.
Robert Bösch, photographer, mountain guide and geographer
Leo Baumgartner, director, photographer, climber
Helmut Fuchs, refuge host of the Schwarzbach refuge
Günther Härter, founder of Top Mountain Tours
Heiner Oberrauch, founder of the enterprise Salewa
Maria Grazia Passini, italian artist, mountain enthusiast
Presentation: Linda Cottino, chief editor of Alp
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| Robert Bösch - photographer, mountain guide and graduated geographer, has been working for 20 years exclusively as a freelance photographer in the special field of outdoor and action-photography. Amongst other orders from the industry and advertising, he has been working for magazines and journals (for example Stern, Geo, National Geographic Adventure and Spiegel, (Schweizer Illustrierte). Robert Bösch is the author of many illustrated books. In 2009 he was awarded the Eiger Special Award for his lifelong work for the alpine photography. As a mountaineer and a mountain climber he knows numerous extreme routes and trails in most of the mountains in the world. He has organized travels and expeditions in every continent, where he was on the way on all known or less known mountains. | |
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| Leo Baumgartner - I’m still living in Lienz. I made first made my ascents of the Ice and of the Dolomite Alps with routes 6b. I managed an Alpine School for 15 years; I also worked as a photographer. It was very important for me to write about the mountains/alps, so I wrote a small variety of books. I expanded the journalistic activity 12 years ago and since then I’m working to introduce film productions in the mountains. Currently I’m working as a location scout and as a safety coordinator. A few years ago I developed a funicular railway for cameras and also a 35 mm-camera, which can be used for most of the mountain motives. | |
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Helmut Fuchs - The sportsman, mountain climber, mountain-hut host, singer and artist Helmut Fuchs, was born in 1965; he was an orphan who grew up amongst strict rules. This kind of education and the painful loss of his parents in his early life have left its mark on his sensitive character and thus contributing to making him a thinker with a critical mind. He has tackled with topics like sociology and philosophy. | |
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| Günther Härter - was born in Munich. He is 56 years old, and is living with his family in Landstetten near Starnberg (Oberbayern). He has always been passionate about mountain climbing, mountain guiding and organizing mountain travels. For many years he was a freelance mountain guide all over the world. As a manager of many expeditions he has climbed up to four mountains over 8,000 meters, as well as a series of mountains over 6,000 and 7,000 meters in the Himalaya and in America. He was employed for 25 years at the DAV, at last as CEO. In 2009 he established his own company, the Top Mountain Tours, which offers and organizes high-grade mountain travels all over the world. | |
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| Heiner Oberrauch - Owner and President of the Oberalp/SALEWA Sports Group, had determined the course for his life yet early. Born on December 22nd 1957 in Bolzano, he started off in 1977, at the age of 19, the shop “Sportler”, in Bolzano, together with his brother Georg. He took advantage of his formation at a Commercial School and of the history of his family, a leadership in producing and dealing the textile “Loden” about several decades. So they created the brand “Oberrauch Zitt. The sense for innovative development and the passion for mountaineering are reflected in his private life. As an avid mountaineer, mountain climber and member of expeditions, he knows very well how quality-conscious mountaineers are claiming the high quality of the equipment and he combines his know-how with fashionable style. | |
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Maria Grazia Passini - I was born in Fanano, a village in the Apennines near Modena. I am currently living in Parma. This is where I inherited my roots and my deep and great love of the mountains. When I got the opportunity, I changed the mountain trails with the routes in the Alps and further discovered the world of the highest mountain peaks. So was born a passion, and this has motivated me to realize my dream; the alpine ski sports. In the mountains is where I discovered the secrets of their beauty! I’d like to express these secrets into my artistic works, to transmit to everybody the deep emotions that the mountains could give to everybody who loves them! | |
The Presenter: | |
| Linda Cottino - After working for four years as Chief Editor, from 2002 on I worked as Managing Director of the ALP. My previous professional experiences were social and radio journalism, and editorials with some of the biggest Italian publisher’s as an editorial and a translator. In the series “Licheni” of the Publisher Vivaldi, I published “Qui Elja, mi sentite?”; it’s the reconstruction, written as a novel, of the tragic expedition in the 1974 on the Pik Lenin, in the Pamir Mountains, where eight alpinists from the USSR died. Since one year I have been working as an assistant director of this series. | |
