1939 to 1950 moved around a lot, due to war, evacuations etc.
1951 to 1955 studied to become a motor mechanic in Hamburg
1956 to 1958 Sailor on a Norwegian freighter „John Bakke“
1958 Driver in the US Army in Frankfurt/Main
1959 Salesman, including door-to-door sales, in Frankfurt/Main and Hamburg. Also in 1959 – all the way down: homeless bum out of the “Palette, ABC-Straße” with sleeping places in the waiting room of the main station as well as on the sidings of trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railroad)
1960 to 1961 Owner of a Jazz-Club and a Restaurant in Hamburg
1962 Film Editor
1963 Detective
1964 to 2002 Opened and ran a car repair garage in Hamburg
1964 Married to Reni
1964 Daughter Nadine is born
1967 Daughter Susanne is born
1972 Motor mechanic master exams
1973 to 1993 Hobby pilot (various planes)
1979 to 1997 Canada- and Alaska-Adventurer (triple crossing of Chilkoot Pass, and several 1000 paddel miles in a 17 foot Canadian, mostly with Bruno Benischek from Austria)
1989 Guide for ZDF German Television (Dieter Kronzucker: „Abenteuer u. Legenden“) in Alaska and in the Yukon Territory
1990 to 2002 volunteer Examiner with the Motor Vehicle Guild in Hamburg
1979 to 1997 independant travel documentary and hobby film maker
1998 Sports boat captains license, inland
2002 Sports boat captains license, sea waterways
2002 Sale of garage and subsequent retirement
2002 Captain of a museum ship (Built 1930, 39 seats) in Hamburg/Oevelgönne
2002 til today: various inland journeys with this ship (Elbe, Hamburg – Dresden – Hamburg, various trips in the Mecklenburg Lake District, Hamburg – Berlin,
Upper- and Lower Elbe tours, Kiel Canal, from Eider to Tönning, occasional Charter trips)
Since 2003 Senior Foto Model (Best-Ager) for Television spots and Print
December 2019 Purchase of a 4k camera drone DJI Mavic 2 Zoom
January 2021 European remote pilot licence A1/A3
March 2024 at 88 still travelling by van, launch and bike
About Dr. Bruno Benischek
1942 born in Gmünd/ Lower Austria
Grew up in the Czech border region in a custom house in Schlag near Litschau
1949-1952 Elementary school in Schlag
1952-1955 Grammar school in Zwettel/Austria
1955-1960 Grammar school in Horn/Austria and passed the school leaving examination
1960-1961 Served in the Austrian Federal Armed Forces including weapons training and a promotion to Lieutenant
1961-1969 Studied medicine at The Unversity of Vienna
1969 Passed as Doctor of Medicine
1969-1970 Doctor on routine at the Gmünd hospital in Austria
Subsequently assistant in the private Surgical Clinic of Ahrensburg near Hamburg
1977 Assistant Doctor and subsequently a surgical specialist in The Hamburg General Hospital in Wandsbeck
1977 first trip to Canada (Yukon: Whitehorse to Dawson)
1977-1982 Studied to become an Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Orthopaedic Clinic at Castle Werneck in Würzburg (during these years there were many canoe tours in the Yukon Territory and Alaska)
1982-1983 Senior Physician at the Surgical Clinic in Ahrensburg
Since 1983 first Assistant Medical Director and then Senoir Physician of the Surgical Department of the Hospital in Scheibbs/Lower Austria
In the mean time, 14x in Canada – Yukon, Northwest-Territories and Alaska with over 7000 Miles in a canoe on various rivers – many with Danny Hildebrand from Hamburg
Further Hobbies: Hunting, Hiking, Golf, in the years before a private pilot in a few classes including Glider and light planes – Licenses are not currently valid: still travelling in Canada!!