Sonja Christ-Brendemühl ( Christ; born 1984), from the German wine region of Mosel ("Moselle"), was chosen as the

German Wine Queen The German Wine Queen (german: Deutsche Weinkönigin) is the representative of the German wine industry. The Wine Queen is supported by two princesses, forming together the German Wine Ambassadors. She is elected, usually in the Palatine town ...

on 9 October 2009 in the city of

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, as the successor to

Marlies Dumbsky Marlies Dumbsky (born 1985), from the German wine region of Franconia, was the 2008/09 German Wine Queen.Franconian wine region. The Wine Princesses during her twelve-month reign were Christl Schäfer ( Württemberg) and Isabell Kindle ( Baden). She is Germany's 61st Wine Queen.''Germany's 61st Wine Queen is Crowned''
at www.germanwineusa.com. Retrieved 14 February 2015 Sonja Christ was born on 1 October 1984 in

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and comes from a Moselle country vintner and innkeeping family. Her father, Alfred, is a

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, and her mother, Gabriele, runs the family vineyard. Until a few years ago she was the fifth generation of her family to run an inn. In 2004/05, the vintner's daughter became the wine queen of her local village of Oberfell.''Sonja Christ ist Mosel-Weinkönigin''
at www.weinland-mosel.de. Retrieved 14 February 2015 In 2008 she became the

Moselle Wine Queen The Moselle Wine Queen (german: Mosel-Weinkönigin), until 2006 the Moselle-Saar-Ruwer Wine Queen (''Mosel-Saar-Ruwer-Weinkönigin''), is a young woman who is elected for a period of a year to represent the Moselle wine region. The first one was c ...

. Following her ''

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'' exams at the grammar school of Asterstein in

Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman mili ...

, Sonja Christ studied business economics from 2003 to 2008 with particular emphasis on marketing and organisation at the University of Mannheim and spent a term at the ESC Grenoble (France) graduating with a business diploma. As well as her native language of German, she also speaks fluent English, French and Italian. Since Feb 2009 she has worked as a head wine taster at the wine magazine ''selection'' in Mainz. Following her appointment as the German Wine Queen she became the ambassador of German wine-growers and their products in a programme of 250 appearances in Germany and abroad during the year that followed. Since 2018 she works as research assistant at the University of Koblenz and Landau. Campus Koblenz / Subject area 4: Informatik / Institute for ManagementInstitut für Management
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