Andreas Kieling is a German documentary filmmaker, film producer and author who specializes in writing about nature, animals and adventure.
In 1976 when Andreas Kieling was just 16 years old, he fled from the GDR via Czechoslovakia and Austria to West Germany.
In the process, he got shot by a border guard as he was swimming border guard while swimming across the Danube on October 16, 1976. He was shot in the back.
While in West Germany, he worked as a seaman for overseas voyages on German merchant ships between 1977 and 1980. He got trained as a professional hunter, especially in the Lanze and Lomitz imLüchow-Dannenberg district from 1980 to 1983.
Andreas Kieling spent a year in the People ’s Republic of China working as a forest consultant and also spent six months in India and Pakistan.
The career of Andreas Kieling as a documentary filmmaker started in 1991.
He documented his visit to the Yukon over 3000 kilometers in length from the source to the mouth in the Bering Sea and the three-part documentary was broadcast on ARD in January 2007.
The third episode of his visit, dubbed Adventures in the Yukon – The Long Walk to the Arctic Sea won a Panda Award at the Wildscreen Festival in Bristol in October 2008.
One of his documentaries, Expeditions to the Last of Their Kind was shown on ZDF in May 2008 and May 2011. Later in 2009, Andreas Kieling went hiking across Germany for the ZDF/Arte production Mitten im Wilden Deutschland.
Is Andreas Kieling Married?
Andreas Kieling is married and has two sons. He lives on a farm in Hümmel in the Eifel. The wife of Andreas Kieling is Birgit Kieling. Not much is known about Birgit Kieling.
Some of the documentaries of Andreas Kieling are 2009: Andreas Kieling – In the Middle of Wild Germany (documentation in five parts), ZDF/Arte, 2010: Andreas Kieling – In the Middle of South Africa (documentation in five parts), ZDF/Arte, 2012: Kielings Wildes Deutschland (documentation in two parts), ZDF, 2014: Kielings wilde Welt (documentary with ten episodes in four seasons), ZDF/Arte, 2015: Kieling’s cold world (documentation in two parts), ZDF/Arte and 2016: Kieling’s wild Africa, ZDF/Arte.
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