Eva Goris

Eva Goris (born May 3, 1956 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German journalist . From 1990 to 2008 she was head of the environment department at Bild am Sonntag and has been the press spokesperson for the German Wildlife Foundation since mid-2008 .

To the author

Eva Goris studied biology at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1978 to 1986 she was an editor at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) in Essen. Then the journalist moved to Hamburg and worked as press spokeswoman for the environmental protection organization Greenpeace . From 1990 to 2008 she was head of the environment department at Bild am Sonntag and has been the press spokesperson for the German Wildlife Foundation since mid-2008 . The author lives in Hamburg .

The journalist was a member of the German National Committee for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development until mid-2008 .

Eva Goris is the author of numerous science series such as Tatort Tierfabrik, Poisoned Everyday Life and Knowing What We Eat and Eat Better. As climate commissioner, the journalist set a focus for Bild am Sonntag in 2007.

The author of numerous foreign reports has reported from war and crisis areas for Bild am Sonntag. She was in Somalia's hunger camps, wrote about the suffering of the mine victims in Angola, Afghanistan and Sarajevo and documented the genocide in Rwanda . Eva Goris was on the Caribbean island of Montserrat when the Soufrière volcano erupted there and devastated the island. She interviewed the Dalai Lama in his North Indian exile in Dharamsala and toured South America, Indonesia, Australia and over 30 African countries for nature reports.

Awards

For her BILD am SONNTAG series about children of the world, she was awarded the SOS Children's Villages Medal of Honor in 2000. In 2004 she received an award from the German Animal Welfare Association for her animal and environmental reports, and Eva Goris was awarded the 2004 Journalist Prize by the German Nutrition Society for the Bild am Sonntag series Knowing what we eat . In January 2006 she received the media prize of the German Environmental Aid .

Publications (selection)

• with Michaela Hansen : As a Granny Aupair in the world , dtv premium, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-26007-7 .
• with Claus-Peter Hutter: The Scent Code - How Industry Manipulates Our Senses , Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-20001-2 .
• Does it still taste good? The Truth About Food Industry Practices. Knaur-TB 77984, Munich ISBN 978-3-426-77984-2 .
• with Claus-Peter Hutter: The earth strikes back - How climate change is changing our lives, scenario 2035. Droemer-Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-27503-0 .
• with Claus-Peter Hutter: Why do geese have little feet? , Droemer-Knaur , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-78058-9 (origin of German idioms).
• with Claus-Peter Hutter: Collection of lost knowledge - What grandpa still knew, Droemer-Knaur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-27398-2 .
• Our pathetic bread: good nutrition does not come out of the bag , Droemer-Knaur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-426-27413-2 (critical guide to industrial food production).
• Knowing What We Eat: Our Food Is Dishes Critically , Riva, 2004, ISBN 978-3-936994-07-0 .
• And the soul is never full ...: a guide to overcoming eating disorders in children and adolescents , Heyne books 8, Heyne-Ratgeber 5368 , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-18879-9 .
• Food, but what? Ullstein Verlag , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-45001-6 (critical advice on everything to do with food)

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Goris in the catalog of the German National Library