Rainer Hörig

Rainer Hörig (* April 1956 ) is a German journalist , author and photographer who mainly publishes on the current history of India and topics of the “ Third World ”.

Life

Hörig grew up in Bonn . In 1975 he graduated from a Protestant boarding school in Gütersloh. Hörig went to Berlin and studied journalism, ethnology, indology and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1985 he obtained a master's degree from the Free University of Berlin.

After traveling to Morocco, Jamaica, Guatemala, India and several European countries, Hörig developed an "interest in the relationships between the affluent countries in the north and the developing countries in the south of the globe". In this context, he worked with several human rights organizations and citizens' initiatives such as the Society for Threatened Peoples and the Solidarity World Action Group .

His reports on a conflict over dam construction in the valley of the Indian river Narmada earned Hörig a one-year “expulsion from the country” so that he went back to Germany for a time. Hörig reported extensively on the situation of the Indian indigenous people Adivasi and environmental movements in India.

Hörig is married to an Indian woman and lives in Pune .

Prices

1991 Media Prize for Development Policy in the radio category

Publications (selection)

In Gandhi's footsteps: social movements and ecological tradition in India , Munich: Beck 1995, (Beck'sche Reihe 1097).
Even the gods have stolen them from us: India's Adivasi are fighting for survival , with a foreword by Robert Jungk , Göttingen; Berlin (East); Vienna; Bern: Society for Threatened Peoples 1990 (Pogrom Pocket Books 1020), ISBN 3-922197-26-4 .
India is different: a political travel book , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1987, (rororo currently 5924), ISBN 3-499-15924-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Submissive, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1956