Werner Kopacka(1950-2015)
- Writer
Werner Kopacka is a journalist and writer and has written numerous
novels including "Der Wald" which was adapted as a movie by Hartmut
Griesmayr. He has also been on two expeditions to the Himalaya
including 1978 where he accompanied Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler
on who managed to be the first people to climb the Mount Everest
without oxygen tanks.