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Thinking about and relating to the environment – what the Germans call Umwelt , id est, the world that surrounds us – in the way that we do today has a long tradition within modern German culture. German scientists were among the many European explorers that left Europe in the late eighteenth century on voyages of discovery to then unknown parts of the world. For some explorers, discovery meant the fundamental confirmation of their own superiority vis-à-vis primitive peoples and primitive natures; for others it resulted in a shake-up of their belief in the superiority of European civilization in the face of the achievements of other civilizations, or in the face of spectacular nature scenes that outperformed the temperate European landscapes in terms of scale, sublimity, and grandeur. The documents that contain these stories of discovery left an important impression not only on German culture, but on European civilization at large, defining it vis-à-vis other civilizations and other natures. Europe today is the product of these encounters, including the way we conceive of our Umwelt , the environment that surrounds us. The story told in this book is the story of the rise of the modern German environmental imagination with particular emphasis on its narrative and visual components, complementing and expanding Barbara Stafford’s important work in her seminal study of the illustrated travel account from 1984. Chapters on Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, Albert Bierstadt, Leni Riefenstahl, and Werner Herzog unfold the key stages in a process that constitutes the unfolding of the modern German environmental imagination.

Geographical perception. --- Kultur. --- Natur (Motiv). --- Nature in art. --- Nature in literature. --- Nature in motion pictures. --- Philosophy of nature --- Philosophy of nature. --- Umwelt (Motiv). --- Ästhetik. --- History --- Bierstadt, Albert, --- Herzog, Werner, --- Humboldt, Alexander von, --- Riefenstahl, Leni. --- Deutschland. --- Germany. --- Germany --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- German Uls --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- ХБНГУ --- Германия --- جرمانيا --- ドイツ --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Germany (East) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- Environmental conditions. --- Intellectual life. --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Gėrman --- Герман Улс --- Jacob, Leni --- Riefenstahl, Helene Bertha Amalie --- Gumbolʹdt, Aleksandr, --- Humboldt, A. de, --- Humboldt, Al. von, --- Humboldt, Alejandro de, --- Humboldt, Alexander, --- Humboldt, Alexandre de, --- Humboldt, --- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, --- Humboldtas, Alexandras von, --- Von Humboldt, Alexander, --- Hersōg, Verṇar, --- Stipetić, Werner H., --- Herzog, Werner --- Stipetić, Werner H. --- Hersōg, Verṇar --- Рифеншталь, Лени --- הומבאלד, אלכסנדר פאן