Home Profiles Mail Deutsch About Danny Hildebrand: 1936 born in Dresden.... 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.... 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.... 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- Övelgönne.... 2002 til today: various inland journeys with this ship (2 times Elbe from Dresden to Hamburg, various trips in the Mecklenburg Lake District, 6 times Hamburg/Berlin, Upper- and Lower Elbe tours, Kiel Canal, from Eider to Tönning, occasional Charter trips).... 2003 to ??? Senior Foto Model (Best-Age) for Television spots and Print.... Further Hobbys: Grandchildren, Fly-Fishing, Windsurfing, Snow-Skiing, Hiking, Cycling, Stoneage Archeology, travelling around Europe and USA in a VW-Bulli.... About 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 Hobbys: 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!!