Ernst Paul Dörfler

Ernst Paul Dörfler, born in 1950 in Kemberg near Lutherstadt Wittenberg, holds a doctorate in ecochemistry and is a passionate ornithologist. His book “Zurück zur Natur?” (Back to Nature?) (1986) became the cult book of the East German environmental movement. He has won numerous prizes, most recently in 2010 together with Jonathan Franzen, when he was merited with the EuroNatur Award of the European Natural Heritage Foundation.