Neue Heimat Stadt

In the organizer's words:

Joseph H. Reichholf is something like the Doctor mirabilis of his generation. The "Süddeutsche Zeitung" newspaper called the zoologist and evolutionary researcher, born in 1945, an "Alexander von Humboldt of our time." Reichholf is one of the most prominent German natural scientists and conservationists. In the early 1970s, together with Bernhard Grzimek and Horst Stern, he founded the "Gruppe Ökologie" in Munich, a nucleus of the "Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland" (BUND). Reichholf, who is responsible for the reintroduction of beavers in Bavaria, among other things, has traveled to all continents and writes about animals as profoundly and vividly as a modern Darwin.

Reichholf was Professor of Ecology and Nature Conservation at the Technical University of Munich until 2010. He was also head of the Ornithology Section at the Bavarian State Zoological Collection in Munich for more than 35 years. Following bestsellers such as "Warum die Menschen sesshaft wurden", "Eine kurze Naturgeschichte des letzten Jahrtausends" and "Der Ursprung der Schönheit", Joseph H. Reichholf has published his life's work under the title "Mein Leben für die Natur". At LIT:potsdam, he will be reading from his latest book "Stadtnatur: Eine neue Heimat für Tiere und Pflanzen".