Tagebuch einer Gänsemutter

Diary of a Mother Goose is the title of a four ten-part television documentary of the WDR and of the book by Angelika Hofer from the year 1989.

Angelika Hofer gets from a farmer ten gray goose eggs donated and pulls the chicks in their log cabin on Hopfensee on. The breeding bell replaced the plumage of the goose mother and Hofer talks with the chicks in the egg. As with Konrad Lorenz, the chicks begin to dominate after hatching to their surrogate mother. You teach them to swim, and fly. During the breeding work Hofer has an extended trip to South America compete, but even after her return, she is recognized by the goose boy. A year Angelika Hofer is accompanied with the camera and at the end of the documentation they will Gänseoma.

Diary of a goose mother ran from December 1989 Thursdays in the afternoon program of the ARD. Each episode lasted 15 minutes. The series has also appeared on VHS video cassette.