Vito Avantario

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Vito Avantario (born November 3, 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German-speaking journalist and author .

Life

After graduating from high school in Hamburg, Vito Avantario studied geography, ethnology and cultural studies in Hamburg and Lüneburg and traveled to Tokyo in 1992, Sao Paulo in 1994, San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas / Mexico in 1995 and worked in New York, Andria and Perugia.

His socially critical reports, interviews, essays and short stories have appeared in Greenpeace Magazin, Stern, Brandeins, Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine, Tagesspiegel, Telepolis, Financial Times, Du (Switzerland) and Monocle (England). His work focuses on the issues of environmental disasters, displacement, migration and human rights. He has published books and chapters on it for the publishers Körber Edition, Bertelsmann and Fischer TB.

As an activist and writer, he was part of the Kanak Attak alliance , a politically motivated network of immigrants in Germany, to which the writer Feridun Zaimoglu also belonged.

He was the first German-speaking author to write a biography of the Agnelli family, an Italian entrepreneur.

Vito Avantario has been a reporter for Greenpeace Magazine since 2009 . Medium magazine nominated him in 2015 in the top ten list of the categories "Journalist of the Year" and "Reporter of the Year". Since 2018 he has been a reporter and editor for the business magazine Brand Eins in Hamburg.

In an article about the difficulties faced by journalists with foreign roots, Avantario is cited as an example of an author who has established himself.

Publications (selection)

  • The Agnellis - the secret rulers of Italy . Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main / New York 2002, ISBN 3-593-36906-0 . (Updated paperback edition from Bastei Lübbe , Bergisch Gladbach 2005, ISBN 3-404-61562-X .)
  • Tomorrow land. Latest German literature. Anthology. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-14755-7 . Jamal Tuschick (Ed.)
  • Rome . teNeues, Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-8238-4578-0 . (Photos: Karsten Thormaehlen )
  • Two-home - bicultural living in Germany . Co-author (with Mely Kiyak and Ferdos Forudastan ). Edition Körber Foundation , Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89684-063-0 . (Ed .: Cornelia Spohn, with a scientific essay by Tarek Badawia.)
  • In a world without rules, the strong always triumphs over the weak. - Interview with the Nobel Prize winner and former chief economist of the World Bank Joseph Stiglitz about the radicalization of western societies, the failed globalization and the destroyer Trump. (greenpeace-magazin.de)
  • The planet will be grilled without nuclear power - James E. Hansen is one of the most famous climate scientists of our time: in 1981 he was one of the first to predict climate change. Today he calls for new nuclear power plants to end the use of coal. (greenpeace-magazin.de)
  • Mainland - Refugees who make it to Lampedusa alive find themselves in the waiting room of life at the end of their journey. There they stand in line for asylum, work, admission. No other place in Europe is more symbolic of waiting than the southern Italian island. Here everyone is linked to every fate. (greenpeace-magazin.de)
  • Life after - In Japan, a year after the earthquake disaster and the reactor disaster in Fukushima, people's anger is growing. (greenpeace-magazin.de)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Miltiadis Oulios: Stamp on the forehead. In: The time . October 30, 2007, accessed March 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Avantario, Vito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg