Martin Schliessler (1929–2008) was a German adventurer, cinematographer and sculptor.
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Life

Martin Schliessler was born in 1929 in

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

, the son of artists Gertrud and

Otto Schliessler Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fro ...

. He was involved in the production of more than 200 nature and expedition documentaries. He was second cinematographer for the documentary ''Im Schatten des Karakorum'' (1955), which was shown at the

5th Berlin International Film Festival The 5th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1955. This year's festival did not give any official jury prizes, instead awards were given by audience voting. This continued until the FIAPF granted Berlin "A-St ...

and there was awarded with the ''Große Bronzene Plakette (Dokumentar- und Kulturfilm)''. He later often worked in Alaska, where he filmed pipeline installations,

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, bush pilots and gold diggers.Film von Wolfram Giese und Jochen Schliesser
, phoenix.de, retrieved 26 January 2014 In 1967 he and

Ray Genet Ray Genet (July 27, 1931 – October 2, 1979), often referred to by the nickname Pirate, was a Swiss-born American mountaineer. He was the first guide on North America's highest mountain, Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley). Genet is the grandfathe ...

tried to climb the

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but had to cancel their trip shortly before reaching the mountain top. In 1974 Schliessler survived a plane crash and filmed the rescue efforts during the next days. In 1956 he married Anemone Heim, daughter of Rosel Heim (co-founder of Sans Souci Cosmetics). Martin is the father of equestrian Barbara (Schliessler) Marks (born 1958), cinematographer Tobias A. Schliessler (born 1959), film producer, painter and photographer

Tina Schliessler Tina may refer to: People *Tina (given name), people and fictional characters with the given name ''Tina'' Places *Tina, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran *Tina, Tunisia, a town in Sfax Governorate, Tunisia * Tina, Guadalcanal, Solomon ...

(born 1961) and documentary filmmaker

Jochen Schliessler Jochen is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Jochen Asche, East German luger, competed during the 1960s *Jochen Böhler (born 1969), German historian, specializing in the history of World War II *Jochen Babock (born 1953), East G ...

(born 1964). Martin authored a number of books including Auf verwehten Spuren, Beruf: Abenteurer, Amerikas Indianische Seele. He moved with his family to

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, Canada in 1979. There he worked as a filmmaker and sculptor. He died after a long illness in 2008.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schliessler, Martin 1929 births 2008 deaths German cinematographers 20th-century German sculptors German male sculptors Mass media people from Mannheim Film people from Baden-Württemberg