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  Archives and Libraries

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  Film and Television

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  Geheimnisvolle Orte: Der Zoologische Garten Berlin—Geschichte einer Großstadtoase. Dir.: Dorothea Schildt, Birgit Wolske. RBB (2006). DVD. 45 min.

  Ost-Legenden: Curt Heinrich Dathe. Dir.: Jens Rübsam, Dagmar Wittmers. MDR (2009). Internet. 43 min.

  Der weisse Wal. Moby Dicks Abenteuer im Rhein. Dir.: Stephan Koester, Carl-Ludwig Rettinger. Lichtblick Film (2001). DVD. 90 min.

  INDEX

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  Academy for Planned Economy, 47

  Adler, Jörg, 143–47, 150, 197–201, 205–7, 225 at Leipzig Zoo, 143, 144, 159–60, 197–200

  AFN radio network, 122

  Africa, 46, 91, 100, 125, 131, 138

  Albers, Hans, 10

  Alfeld an der Leine, 91, 108

  Alfeld detective squad, 105–6

  alligators, 114, 228

  Althoff, Franz, 62–66

  Althoff circus, 62–63, 66, 229

  Altmann, Fritz Dietrich, 206

  Amazon rain forest, 138

  Ammon, Hans, 18, 27

  An An (panda), 226

  Andes Mountains, 138–39,
141

  Animals as Symbols in Painting from the 14th to 17th Century (Dittrich), 227

  animal trading companies, 90–91, 125, 138

  animal trappers, 137–38, 140–41, 142, 219

  antelopes, 16, 52, 87, 90, 117, 126, 167

  anti-Semitism, 9, 132

  Apel, Hans, 179

  apes, 89, 100–101, 109, 123, 137, 141, 144, 152, 154, 160, 215

  Arjun (rhinoceros), 90

  Army, U.S., 116

  Associated Press, 20, 78

  Association of German Zoos, 5

  Astra circus, 23

  aurochs (extinct cattle species), 8

  Australia, 190

  Austria, 148, 196, 206

  aye-ayes, 218

  baboons, 151–52

  badgers, 68

  Baltic Sea, 94, 125, 145, 149

  Bambi (elephant), 188

  bamboo, 85, 179

  Bao Bao (panda), 179, 225–26

  Basel Zoo, 89–90

  Bauhaus style, 93

  Bautzen maximum security prison, 107

  Bavaria, 63, 205

  bears, 8, 23, 47, 52, 68, 69, 83–86, 87, 88, 118, 154, 160, 179. see also specific bear species

  beavers, 8, 137

  Beijing, 99, 179 Tiananmen Square protests in, 200

  Beijing Zoo, 84

  Berlin, 5, 44–45, 87. See also East Berlin; West Berlin Budapester Strasse in, 9, 13, 15, 28, 161, 182, 201

  cultural and commercial life in, 27–28

  environmental pollution in, 130–32, 181

  Hardenbergplatz in, 28, 81, 201

  Kurfürstendamm in, 12, 162

  love of animals in, 1, 5

  Old City Hall in, 19

  Parliament of, 216

  postwar reconstruction and division of, 1, 3, 5, 6, 18, 164–65, 173, 208, 223

  Potsdamer Platz in, 13

  Public Education Department of, 19

  reunification of, 217

  750th anniversary of, 188, 190

  Treptower Park station in, 31, 33

  Wilmersdorf district of, 19

  World War II Allied bombing of, 7, 10–11, 13, 15, 17, 24, 35, 172, 182

  Berlin Aquarium, 3, 9, 11–14, 16, 73, 113, 161–67, 176–77, 218 insectarium and amphibian divisions of, 171

  Lange as director of, 170–73

  Schröder as director of, 25–27, 58, 112, 123–24, 161–65, 166

  staff of, 168–69

  Berliner Zeitung, 156, 208, 211–12

  Berlin Wall, 1, 3, 5–6, 108, 109, 117, 122, 123, 126, 147, 148, 151, 161, 164, 214, 217 fall of, 201, 203, 212, 218, 227

  Berlin Zoological Garden, 1–2, 5–6, 7–11, 18, 32–33, 34, 35, 38–39, 45, 46, 55, 88, 107–12, 151–52, 161, 215, 217 animal species in, 1–2, 11, 15–16, 24–26, 33, 57–58, 73, 89, 125, 139, 154, 177–81, 185–86, 190–92, 201, 218, 229

  antelope house in, 16, 26

  aviary in, 113, 157, 191–92

  1844 founding of, 8

  elephant gate at, 182–85

  entrance price of, 112–13

  forced departure of Heinroth from, 58–60, 72, 79, 170

  Heck as director of, 7–10, 28, 42–43, 175–76, 182–83, 221

  Heinroth as director of, 19–30, 41–43, 57–61, 70, 72–74, 173, 227

  hippopotamus house in, 73

  history of, 175

  Klös as director of, 1–5, 10, 13, 17, 18, 73–81, 85, 168–80, 182–85, 189–92, 202–4, 208–14, 216–17, 219–23, 228

  Oktoberfest at, 23–24, 112–13, 172

  as oldest German zoo, 171

  popularity of, 172

  postwar restoration of, 18, 19–20, 59, 88–89

  predator house in, 89

  primate section of, 111, 123

  profits of, 218

  Schröder as managing director of, 19, 23, 25–27, 30, 58, 61

  shareholders of, 8, 9, 20, 29, 57, 176, 177

  staff of, 171–72, 215

  Bern Zoo, 115

  Bild, Die, 112

  Birds of Central Europe, The (Heinroth), 12

  birdwatching, 36, 37, 94

  bison, 87, 92, 93

  black bears, 88, 160

  Black Forest, 227

  black hill myna birds, 42

  Black Pump, 149

  Blaszkiewitz, Bernhard, 216–17, 218, 228

  Blecha, Johanna, 80, 97

  boars, 51, 87, 154, 215

  Bobby (gorilla), 5, 41–42

  Bodo (baboon), 152

  Bonn, 4, 108, 178, 181

  Brandt, Lars, 111–12

  Brandt, Willy, 2, 110–12, 131, 177, 191

  Brehm’s Life of Animals, 78, 84

  Breslau, 9, 11, 165

  Breslau, University of, 17 Zoological Institute of, 12

  British Army, 20, 22–23

  Bronx Zoo, 116

  Brookfield Zoo, 84

  brown bears, 8, 68, 191

  Budapest civil rights protests, 96

  buffalo, 48, 93

  Building Academy, 48, 156

  Bulette (hippo), 24, 74

  Bummi, 52

  Busch-Aeros circus, 23

  bustards, 125

  B.Z., 181, 186

  camels, 48, 50, 52, 98

  Cameroon, 137, 141

  Canada, 118, 136, 141, 146

  capitalism, 31, 32, 100, 130, 202

  Carinhall, 8

  carrier pigeons, 12, 13

  cats, 89, 92, 113–15, 178, 192

  cattle, 8, 61, 117

  Center for Vertebrate Research, 148

  chameleons, 162

  Charité university clinic, 187–88

  Checkpoint Charlie, 109–10, 116

  Chengdu Zoo, 179

  Chi Chi (panda), 84–86, 177, 220, 226

  chimpanzees, 111, 137, 160

  China, People’s Republic of, 173–81, 218–19 exchange of animals between Germany and, 99–100, 173–81, 226

  Sichuan province of, 84

  Christian Democratic Union, 134, 199, 206

  Christianity, 144, 146, 150

  Cirque Alexis Gruss, 229

  cockatoos, 192

  Cold War, 5, 6, 218, 223

  Cologne, 135

  Cologne-Wuppertal Dairy, 66

  Cologne Zoo, 60

  Commission for Zoological Gardens, 144, 148

  communism, 206

  Connery, Sean, 132

  Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 141

  Copenhagen, 39, 41, 85

  Coppenrath, Heinrich, 69

  Coppenrath, Reinhard, 69–70

  cranes, 68, 190, 192

  crocodiles, 13, 87, 114, 163, 187, 192, 193

  Czechoslovakia, 99, 196

  Dathe, Almut, 37, 92–93

  Dathe, Elisabeth, 37, 41, 50, 92, 93–95, 116, 187, 192, 208

  Dathe, Falk, 92–95, 152–53, 207, 226

  Dathe, Heinrich, 35–39, 61, 148, 163 acclaim and prestige of, 86–87, 98

  character and personality of, 48–49, 53–54, 87, 93–95, 96–97, 176, 204–5

  children and family life of, 92–93, 192–93

  daily routine of, 93–94

  death and funeral of, 212–13, 215

  as director of East Berlin Tierpark, 2–3, 4–5, 8, 43–55, 60, 79–81, 192–96, 201–5, 207–14, 217, 219–23

  lecturing of, 37, 49–50, 94

  at Leipzig Zoo, 35–38, 48, 54–55, 95–96

  Nazi Party membership of, 36–37, 38, 54, 97

  physical appearance of, 3, 37, 145

  rivalry between Klös and, 2–3, 79–80, 89, 114, 165, 166, 202–3, 221, 223

  wartime service and imprisonment of, 37

  zoo philosophy of, 45–46, 50–51

  Dathe, Holger, 37, 92–93, 118

  deer, 48, 87, 92–93, 141, 149, 154, 155 fallow, 190

  red, 93, 190, 215

  Vietnamese sika, 93

  de Kowa, Viktor, 164

  Demmer, Heini, 84–86

  Denmark, 1
90

  Diana, Princess of England, 5

  Dieckmann, Johannes, 52

  Diepgen, Eberhard, 185, 190, 215

  District Association of Small Livestock Breeders, Garden Plot Holders, and Homesteaders, 47

  Dittrich, Lothar, 4, 203–4, 206, 214, 226–27 attempted abduction of, 103–7

  defection to West Berlin by, 102–5, 107–8

  as deputy director of Leipzig Zoo, 96–100, 105, 107, 125–26, 159

  as director of Hanover Zoo, 163, 226

  political problems of, 99–107

  as Tierpark research aide, 49–50, 55, 92

  dogs, 20, 52, 84, 139, 162

  dolphins, 127, 134, 136, 142, 182

  Dombo (elephant), 188, 207–8

  domestic animals, 44, 110, 149

  donkeys, 9, 79

  Dörflein, Thomas, 220

  Dortmund, 131, 159

  Dresden, 87, 90, 184

  Dresden Zoo, 35, 90, 98, 145, 149, 226

  Duisburg, 63, 126–30, 131, 134–35, 163, 206

  Duisburg Zoo, 1, 126–30, 136–37, 141–42, 206, 227

  Dulles, John Foster, 84

  Düsseldorf, 21, 135

  Düsseldorf Zoological Garden, 21

  eagles, 13, 110–11

  East Africa, 91, 125

  East Berlin, 1, 6, 35, 41, 79–80, 97, 108, 151, 165 Alexanderplatz in, 157, 161, 208

  as capital of East Germany, 22, 34, 38–40, 95, 101

  commerce in, 95

  cultural affairs department of, 203

  defection of families to the West from, 48, 102–5, 107–8, 201

  Karl-Marx-Allee in, 155

  Köpenick district of, 39

  Lichtenberg Park in, 39

  1953 workers uprising in, 39, 96

  Plänterwald in, 39, 40

  public broadcasting station of, 115

  Rotes Rathaus in, 208

  Rüdersdorfer Strasse in, 45

  Schlossstrasse (Am Tierpark) in, 95

  Stalinallee in, 34, 39, 51

  Treptower Park in, 39, 43

  Unter den Linden in, 139

  Walter Ulbricht Stadium in, 95

  Wuhlheide Park in, 39, 40, 51