Michael Wachtler

Michael Wachtler - Vision

Michael Wachtler lives as a philosopher of nature, author and filmmaker in Innichen/San Candido (South Tyrol). There he is looking for answers to the basic questions of being human and gives birth to those ideas, dreams and plans that attract interest in society. His social criticism often turns him into an uncomfortable contemporary witness.
Since his early youth he devoted himself to the goal of entering deeper into the world of stones than anyone else.

He succeeded in detecting the biggest gold – and crystal findings of the Alps and furthermore he discovered countless unknown saurians and fossil plants. Therefore he often is referred to as the “man who speaks to stones” or as the “crystal man”.

He is considered as a connoisseur of the Dolomites and the whole Alps-region. Numberless of his books and films about the genesis, the history and the wars in the Dolomites became standard works.

His will to search for Newlands everywhere in the world led him oftentimes to the so far hidden landscapes of the world.

In 1999 he succeeded in finding the ancestor of snakes and lizards. In his honor Prof. Silvio Renesto named it “Megachirella Wachtleri”. Over the intervening years he discovered about thirty new saurian species and so far unknown fossil plants.

Michael Wachtler - Highlights

New Discoveries
Fossil Plants, dinosaurs

Megachirella wachtleri
the ancestor of snakes and lizards

The First World War
in the Dolomites

ORIGIN OF CYCADS (PDF ca. 3 MB)

Michael Wachtler
Discoverer, philosopher of nature, author, film director
Via P.-P.-Rainer 11,
I-39038 San Candido (BZ)

Tel. +39 0474 913462
Fax +39 0474 913092
michael@wachtler.com
www.michaelwachtler.com