*1940 AT, Tyrol (state)
Austrian antropologist, journalist, photographer and filmmaker He was born August 22, 1940 in Schwaz/Tirol. At the end of the 1970s he became internationally famous after publishing the book Last Africans, which was translated into six languages. In 1995 Gert Chesi founded the Haus der Völker in Schwaz, which is a museum for tribal art and ethnography. Today Gert Chesi lives in Togo, Thailand and Austria.