Biography

He lived to work! Literally. And from understanding this Dickhäuter (- German nickname for an elephant), I find that that best describes his character. He had a deep love for elephants and I was given the last two elephants of his collection by the late Walter Fiedler. Dickhäuter - Thick skinned Being with a sensitive „feeler“ (trunk) with which it explores its curiosity and nourishes itself. He left his body of this world, with over a 106 scars on it, when he finally closed his eyes! How many times he should have died whilst making KINO, is astounding(?)! Whether it was crashing off a staircase landing with a motor cycle, or falling 20 meters out of a hot air balloon, falling off the back of an elephant, almost drowning when the rope snapped of the glass cage he was imprisoned in for a film scene at the bottom of a lake, or falling down a flight of stairs in the clutches of a Bengal Tiger in a panic… the only thing that could kill Harry Piel, defier of Death, was the force of his own Mind, when he was no longer able to make movies! Therefore, the best way to understand him, is to follow the trail he left behind: The list of movies he made, should leave a language of understanding him best - his subconscious translater, and the „mask“ he dared send subliminal messages with! And never forget - birds of the same feather, flock together… Show me your Friends, and I‘ll tell you who your are - studying the list of people he worked, risked his Life with on a daliy basis, with and their Schicksale - their biographies, tells you a, lot about a person. MORE to come…