Los Alamos represents our nuclear era.

Unseen by the public and without communication with dissenters, nuclear fission is perpetuated as the guiding principle of modern technology.

Glorification of the past determines the visions of the future.

Los Alamos is a dark place.

Biography 

born 1947 in Murnau (Bavaria).
Writer, filmmaker, radio journalist, editor.
Several books on Native American resistance in North America.
Since 1973 frequent travels to indigenous nations of Canada and the USA; strong relationsships with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Cree (of Quebec).
Collaborator of Rainer Wittenborn in the mixed-media exhibition
"A River Drowned by Water" (about the James Bay Cree) which traveled the world for 10 years.
Initiator of the World Uranium Hearing, 1992 in Salzburg, Austria.
Director of the Nuclear-Free Future Award, founded in 1998 (this annual award honors outstanding people who fight for a future without nuclear weapons and nuclear energy).
Lecturer at the German School for Journalism, Munich.
Member of the advisory board of the "Society for Threatened Peoples"
(an NGO with consultative status at the UN)

FILMS

Director

• "White Man's Phantasy, Red Man's Reality" (30 min), produced by Institut für Film und Bild, Grünwald 1983

• "Winnetou Never Went to Wounded Knee" (30 min), produced by Institut für Film und Bild, Grünwald 1984

• "Das Mooswiesel" (Woman of the Swamp) (10 min), WDR 1984

• "Dewasenta" (10 min) ZDF 1993

• "The Secret and the Sacred – Two Worlds at Los Alamos" (58 min) produced by DenkMal-Film for HR/ arte 2002

• "Thunderbird Woman – Winona LaDuke" (74 min) with Bertram Verhaag, produced by DenkMal-Film for BR / arte 2003

• "EXIT 16 – Onondaga Nation Territory", produced by biegertlodge films, to be released in 2012

Actor

"Wüste Wege" by Ray Müller (70 min), produced by Utopia-Film for BR 1986

Producer

"Der Tod der aus der Erde kommt" /The Death that Creeps from the Earth; 30 min, Engstfeld-Filmproduktion for The World Uranium Hearing 1990

Writer

Numerous narration texts for documentaries for German television (ARD)