Sarah Wiener Explained

Party:The Greens – The Green Alternative
Office:Member of the European Parliament
Constituency:Austria
Term Start:2 July 2019
Term End:2024
Birth Date:27 August 1962
Nationality:German, Austrian
Spouse:Peter Lohmeyer[1]

Sarah Wiener (born 27 August 1962) is a German-Austrian entrepreneur, television chef and politician who served as a member of the European Parliament for Austria from 2019 to 2024.[2] [3] [4] She is a member of The Greens – The Green Alternative.

Career

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

As Member of the European Parliament, Wiener served on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. In this capacity, she was the parliament's rapporteur on regulation of pesticides in the European Union.[12]

In addition to her committee assignments, Wiener was 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 chaired the MEP Interest Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)[13] and was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption,[14] the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights[15] and of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals.[16]

In January 2024, Wiener announced that she would not stand in the 2024 European elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the term.[17]

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.[19]

Notes and References

  1. News: Sarah Wiener und Peter Lohmeyer sind getrennt. Tagesspiegel. 28 May 2019.
  2. News: An NBA star, a TV chef and a comedian: meet some of the new MEPs. Philip. Oltermann. Shaun. Walker. Angela. Giuffrida. 27 May 2019. 28 May 2019. The Guardian.
  3. Web site: Key dates ahead. European Parliament . 28 May 2019 . en . 20 May 2017.
  4. Web site: Key dates ahead. BBC News . 28 May 2019 . en . 22 May 2017.
  5. News: An NBA star, a TV chef and a comedian: meet some of the new MEPs. Philip. Oltermann. Shaun. Walker. Angela. Giuffrida. 27 May 2019. 28 May 2019. The Guardian.
  6. News: Unterberg. Swantje. Fokken. Silke. 2019-02-02. Waldorfschulen werden 100 - Promis über die schönsten und schlimmsten Momente. de. Der Spiegel. 2021-12-21. 2195-1349.
  7. https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/neue-kolumnistin-besser-essen-mit-sarah-wiener-und-udo.3522.de.html?dram:article_id=413717 Neue Kolumnistin: „Besser essen“ mit Sarah Wiener
  8. News: An NBA star, a TV chef and a comedian: meet some of the new MEPs. Philip. Oltermann. Shaun. Walker. Angela. Giuffrida. 27 May 2019. 28 May 2019. The Guardian.
  9. https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/prominente/article130647419/Sarah-Wiener-und-Peter-Lohmeyer-trennen-sich.html Sarah Wiener und Peter Lohmeyer trennen sich
  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. Eva Achinger and Marco Lehner (26 January 2023), Pestizidrecherche: Südtiroler Apfelwelt in Aufruhr Bayerischer Rundfunk.
  13. https://epha.org/meps-join-forces-to-boost-european-parliament-actions-to-tackle-antimicrobial-resistance-amr/ MEPs join forces to boost European Parliament actions to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
  14. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-anti-corruption.pdf Intergroup on Anti-Corruption
  15. https://lgbti-ep.eu/who-we-are/members/ Members
  16. http://www.animalwelfareintergroup.eu/about-us/members/ Members
  17. https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/sarah-wiener-die-oesterreichische-fernsehkoechin-will-nicht-erneut-fuers-europaparlament-kandidieren-a-e9bfe667-1e66-4e92-869f-096bda5a3acd Sarah Wiener verzichtet auf erneute Kandidatur fürs Europaparlament
  18. https://c2c-ev.de/beirat Advisory Board
  19. https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/prominente/article130647419/Sarah-Wiener-und-Peter-Lohmeyer-trennen-sich.html Sarah Wiener und Peter Lohmeyer trennen sich

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