Sarah Wiener

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Sarah Wiener
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Member of the European Parliament
for Austria
Assumed office
2 July 2019 [1] [2]
Personal details
Born (1962-08-27) August 27, 1962 (age 60)
Halle, West Germany
NationalityGerman and Austrian
Political party The Greens – The Green Alternative
Spouse Peter Lohmeyer [3]

Sarah Wiener (born 27 August 1962) is a German-Austrian entrepreneur, TV chef, and politician who was elected to the European Parliament in 2019. [4]

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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. [5] At the age of seventeen Sarah Wiener left a girls' boarding school and then hitchhiked through Europe. [6] 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 . [7]

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. [8] She was also involved with food quality group Foodwatch. [9] Since 2015, she has been operating an organic farm in the Uckermark region. [10]

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Wiener had to file for insolvency for her restaurants and catering business. [11]

Political career

Since becoming a Member of the European Parliament, Wiener has been a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

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) [12] and is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption, [13] the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights [14] and of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals. [15]

Other activities

Recognition

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. [17]

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  2. ↑ "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "Sarah Wiener und Peter Lohmeyer sind getrennt". Tagesspiegel . Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  4. ↑ Oltermann, Philip; Walker, Shaun; Giuffrida, Angela (27 May 2019). "An NBA star, a TV chef and a comedian: meet some of the new MEPs" . Retrieved 28 May 2019– via The Guardian.
  5. ↑ Oltermann, Philip; Walker, Shaun; Giuffrida, Angela (27 May 2019). "An NBA star, a TV chef and a comedian: meet some of the new MEPs" . Retrieved 28 May 2019– via The Guardian.
  6. ↑ Unterberg, Swantje; Fokken, Silke (2 February 2019). "Waldorfschulen werden 100 - Promis über die schönsten und schlimmsten Momente". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN   2195-1349 . Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  7. ↑ Neue Kolumnistin: „Besser essen“ mit Sarah Wiener, Deutschlandfunk Kultur , press release of 22 March 2018.
  8. ↑ Oltermann, Philip; Walker, Shaun; Giuffrida, Angela (27 May 2019). "An NBA star, a TV chef and a comedian: meet some of the new MEPs" . Retrieved 28 May 2019– via The Guardian.
  9. ↑ Sarah Wiener und Peter Lohmeyer trennen sich Die Welt , July 28, 2014.
  10. ↑ Stéphanie Grix (June 17, 2018) Sarah Wiener: „Viele Menschen hier haben kein Geld, um sich bio leisten zu können“ Berliner Zeitung .
  11. ↑ Zosia Wanat (July 27, 2020), Celebrity chef-turned-MEP aims to stir up EU food policy Politico Europe .
  12. ↑ MEPs join forces to boost European Parliament actions to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), press release of February 19, 2020.
  13. ↑ Intergroup on Anti-Corruption European Parliament.
  14. ↑ Members European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights.
  15. ↑ Members European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.
  16. ↑ Advisory Board Cradle to Cradle.
  17. ↑ Sarah Wiener und Peter Lohmeyer trennen sich Die Welt , July 28, 2014.
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