Volker Arzt (born 1941) is a German qualified physicist, science journalist, television presenter and author.[1]

Life

Volker Arzt studied in Stuttgart, among other places. Arzt became known in the 1970s through the ZDF series Querschnitt, which he presented together with Hoimar von Ditfurth. In the shows Die Balance der Biosphäre (The Balance of the Biosphere) and Kippt das Klima-Gleichgewicht (Is the Climate Balance Tipping?), he described the man-made climate catastrophe - caused by man's use of coal, oil and natural gas, and warned of its consequences.[2]

Arzt was the editorial director of GEO-Film from 1984 to 1990 and has been working as a freelance author since 1990, primarily for ZDF. Together with Immanuel Birmelin, he wrote Do Animals Have Consciousness? (1993).[3]

Honors

He has received numerous national and international awards for his television documentaries, including the European Environmental Prize, the Canadian “Rocky”, the Japan Award, the “Nautilus” in bronze, silver and gold, as well as the best science film at the GREEN SCREEN Eckernförde International Nature Film Festival. In 2009, Volker Arzt received the Görlitz Meridian Nature Film Prize for his entire film work.[4] In 2018, he received the Heinz Sielmann Film Prize for Surprise Eggs at the GREEN SCREEN Festival.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Volker Arzt". Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  2. ↑ "Querschnitt - Der Ast, auf dem wir sitzen". www.zdf.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  3. ↑ "Haben Tiere ein Bewußtsein? Wenn Affen lügen, wenn Katzen denken und Elefanten traurig sind". www.spektrum.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  4. ↑ "SENCKENBERG world of biodiversity | Senckenberg Gesellschaft.. | Kommunikation | Presse | Archiv alt | 2009 | 09-08-19_PM_Filmpreis Vo." 2016-03-04. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
  5. ↑ "Film-Detail". Green Screen Naturfilmfestival (in German). 2023-08-07. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
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