Sarah Wiener

Sarah Wiener (born 27 August 1962) is a German-Austrian entrepreneur, television chef and politician who was elected to the European Parliament for Austria in 2019. She is a member of The Greens – The Green Alternative.

Сareer

Wiener was born in Halle, West Germany from the Austrian writer, cyberneticist and restaurateur Oswald Wiener and the German-Austrian visual artist Lore Heuermann and raised with her mother in Vienna, Austria. At the age of seventeen Sarah Wiener left a girls' boarding school and then hitchhiked through Europe. After opening her first restaurant in Berlin in 1999, Wiener established a number of additional restaurants and cafés in the city, including at Hamburger Bahnhof (2003), the Academy of the Arts (2005), the Museum for Communication (2009) and Futurium (2019). She also operated restaurants at German Museum of Technology in Berlin and Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.

From 2007 until 2012, ''Arte'' and ''ORF'' produced Wiener's first cooking show. From 2018, she had a weekly radio program on ''Deutschlandfunk Kultur''.

In 2007, Wiener set up the Sarah Wiener Foundation, a non-profit organization to promote healthy eating habits among children and teenagers. She has since been increasingly active as a campaigner. She was also involved with food quality group Foodwatch. Since 2015, she has been operating an organic farm in the Uckermark region.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Wiener had to file for insolvency for her restaurants and catering business.

Political career

Since becoming a Member of the European Parliament, Wiener has been a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. In this capacity, she is the parliament's rapporteur on regulation of pesticides in the European Union.

In addition to her committee assignments, Wiener is part of the Parliament's delegation to the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Partnership Committee, the EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Association Committee. She also chairs the MEP Interest Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption, the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights and of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.

Other activities

* Cradle to Cradle, Member of the Advisory Board

Recognition

* 2006: Herforder price — the German gastronomy price (honor price)
* 2007: Order One 100 ("Best Sceneco"), from Magazine ''Bunte''
* 2007: Trophée Gourmet (Honortrophée), from the Austrian gourmet leader à la carte
* 2008: Golden Cloche, Austria
* 2008: Woman of Exception Award in the category Lifestyles for Germany, by Parmigiani Fleurier, Switzerland
* 2008: Les Trophees de l'Esprit Alimentaire / French Food Spirit Award for the Arte series The culinary adventures of Sarah Wiener (France)
* 2008: Flair de Parfum (Prize of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce)
* 2010: Blue Hearts Award
* 2012: Fairness Price (Fairness Foundation)
* 2012: Gourmet of the Year (Gault Millau, Austria)
* 2013 – Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite

Personal life

Wiener has a son. From 2008 until 2014, she was married to German actor Peter Lohmeyer; during the relationship, she lived in Hamburg's Ottensen district.Sarah Wiener und Peter Lohmeyer trennen sich
''Die Welt'', July 28, 2014.

References

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1957 births
Living people
MEPs for Austria 2019–2024
People from Halle (Saale)
21st-century women MEPs for Austria
The Greens – The Green Alternative MEPs