Klaus Werner-Lobo
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Klaus Werner-Lobo ( Klaus Werner-Lobo de Rezende, until August 2006 Klaus Werner ; * 1967 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian author , coach , trainer , politician , clown and speaker.
life and work
After his community service he went to Vienna in 1986 and studied environmental biology as well as Romance languages and German studies there . In 1992 he was in charge of international media for the Austrian Chamber of Commerce at the World Exhibition in Seville . In 1993 he began his journalistic career as a writer for a news magazine. Klaus Werner-Lobo speaks German, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
From 1995 to 2000 Werner was press spokesman for the Austrian Ecology Institute . He designed and supervised the journals Kontexte and Energiewende as well as the internet portal ecology.at. From 1996 to 1998 he also worked for the Vienna city newspaper Falter in the politics and city life departments. He also wrote reports and comments for the daily newspaper , Welt am Sonntag , profil , Der Standard , Die Presse , Die Furche and others, as well as reports on African countries for the travel magazine. 2006
His book Cheers meal , written with Henriette Gupfinger and Gabriele Mraz . was selected by the Robert Jungk Library for questions about the future among the top ten books on the future . Spiegel Online counts him alongside Noam Chomsky , Naomi Klein , Michael Moore and Jean Ziegler as one of the “stars of alternative globalization”.
In September 2008, Werner-Lobo's book The world belongs to us! Power and machinations of the multinationals in the Hanser Verlag ; In 2010 an updated new edition was published by dtv .
From October 2010 to November 2015 Werner-Lobo was a local councilor and member of the state parliament as well as human rights and culture spokesman for Die Grünen Vienna .
In December 2012 he successfully intervened against a concert by the Viennese dialect band Die Hinichen , which brought him the charge of "censorship of the Metternich era " on the part of IG authors .
In September 2014, together with Hans Weiss, he published a new edition of the Black Book Brand Companies with the new subtitle "The world in the grip of corporations". In March 2016 he published the book "After the outrage. What to do when voting is no longer enough" as a guide to civic engagement outside of political parties. In November 2016 he published "Free and dangerous. The power of fools", a cultural history of clowns from indigenous tricksters to court jesters to Charlie Chaplin & Co.
He is currently teaching the "fool-free" method he has developed for personal development and team building for companies in workshops and coaching, which he understands as "liberation from internal and external constraints" and overcoming the "fear of failure". He has teaching positions at the Institute for Provocation Education at Danube University Krems, the Arge Bildungsmanagement at Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna, at the College for Social Pedagogy in Vienna and at the Pioneers of Change course.
Publications
- with Henriette Gupfinger and Gabriele Mraz: Cheers meal! Eating and drinking with a clear conscience. Deuticke, Vienna / Munich, ISBN 3-216-30549-X .
- with Hans Weiss : Schwarzbuch brand companies. The machinations of the global corporations . Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-216-30592-9 .
- with Hans Weiss: The new black book brand companies. The machinations of the global corporations. Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-216-30715-8 . (updated edition: Ullstein, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-548-36847-6 ; extended and updated edition: ibid. 2010, ISBN 978-3-548-37314-0 )
- with Thomas Seifert: Black Book Oil. A story of greed, war, power and money. Deuticke, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-552-06023-5 . (Bpb, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-89331-729-5 ; updated edition: Ullstein, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-548-36995-2 )
- The world is Ours! Power and machinations of the multinationals. Hanser, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23100-9 . (updated new edition: dtv, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-62452-7 )
- with Hans Weiss : Schwarzbuch brand companies. The world in the grip of the corporations . Deuticke, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-552-06259-7 .
- After the outrage. What to do when voting is no longer enough. Deuticke, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-552-06313-6 .
- Free and dangerous. The power of fools. Benevento, Wals near Salzburg 2016, ISBN 3-7109-0008-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Werner-Lobo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Klaus Werner-Lobo
- Interview with Klaus Werner-Lobo by Mark Hammer in Planet Interview, March 11, 2009
- Klaus Werner-Lobo: For the joy of the subversive , portrait of Kathrin Hartmann in the Frankfurter Rundschau , June 25, 2010
- Portrait of the WDR about Klaus Werner-Lobo
- TEDx talk by Klaus Werner-Lobo about the "power of fools"
- I n the show STÖCKL about the "power of fools"
Footnotes
- ↑ Critic: The Stars of Alternative Globalization . In: Spiegel Online . June 1, 2007.
- ↑ Website and video channel for the book
- ^ Vienna State Parliament and City Council: Klaus Werner-Lobo
- ↑ Cancellation of the “Hinichen” concert: IG Authors speaks of “shame”. In: The Standard . December 8, 2012, accessed December 11, 2012 .
- ↑ Julia Herrnböck: Lobo remains: "Hiniche" is not eligible for funding. In: The Standard . December 11, 2012, accessed December 11, 2012 .
- ↑ Greens prevent "Hinichen" appearance: City council against censorship. In: The press . December 11, 2012, accessed December 11, 2012 .
- ^ Klaus Werner-Lobo: Workshops and coaching. Accessed November 27, 2018 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner-Lobo, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Werner, Klaus; Werner Lobo de Rezende, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian journalist and politician (Greens), member of the state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg |