Klaus Werner-Lobo was born 1967 in Salzburg. He studied ecology and filology in Vienna and theatre in Rio de Janeiro. He was press spokesman of the Austrian Institute for Applied Ecology and worked as a freelancing journalist for newspapers and magazines like taz, Welt am Sonntag, Falter, profil, trend, Der Standard, Die Presse and others.

Spiegel online names him together with Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore and Jean Ziegler as one of the stars of the alternative globalization. Klaus currently lives as an author and clown in Vienna. He speaks German, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.

Foto: Paul Sturm

Publications:

• Prost Mahlzeit! (Deuticke 2000, together with Henriette Gupfinger and Gabriele Mraz), was elected among the ‘Top Ten Books for the Future’ by the Robert-Jungk-Bibliothek für Zukunftsfragen.
• Schwarzbuch Markenfirmen (”Black Book on Brands”, Deuticke 2001/Ullstein 2006, together with Hans Weiss). The book is to name those who are responsible for unscrupulous business practices and human rights violations. More than 150.000 copies were sold, translations are also available in Dutch, Spanish, Hungarian, Turkish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Japanese, Corean, Romanian, Polish and Russian.
• Schwarzbuch Öl (”Black Book on Oil”, Deuticke 2005, together with Thomas Seifert), with Arabic, Spanish and Italian editions.
• Uns gehört die Welt! (”The world belongs to us!”, Hanser 2008).