In the kitchen, celebrity chef - and soon members of the European Parliament?

Sarah Wiener wants Parliament to the EU: In the European elections in may, the TV chef hopes to run for Austria's Green. She is a candidate for second place on the list, the party Congress will decide in March. Wiener wants to dedicate himself to the issues of sustainable agriculture, healthy food and biodiversity, and says, you know, "that I have a steep learning curve in front of me". the Marten Rolff

In retrospect, the cross-entry as a basic principle for Sarah Wieners career. She was in her mid-twenties, single parents, social assistance recipient, and without any training, as she began to peel in the Kreuzberg scene Restaurant your father's potatoes. Who would have then bet on it that this kitchen would be the most famous cook in the German-speaking countries? Later, Wiener rose with a converted kitchen of the National people's army in a cart to the Film-Catering. Who would have thought that would develop into a company with almost 90 employees? In this respect, it is to be taken seriously, when the 56-announces year-old Austrian and choice brand citizen now to go into politics.

In the European elections in may, wants to place the non-party TV chef for Austria's Green run, you are applying to the second list, the party Congress will decide in March. Wiener wants to dedicate himself to the issues of sustainable agriculture, healthy food and biodiversity, and the white, "that I have a steep learning curve in front of me," as she told the news agencies. The sound is appropriately humble, but also good, finally the eloquent Austrian is ... because of its glamorous presence and your krachigen quotes a Bank for talk shows and Interviews in which she makes healthy eating a strong and robbery, some charm against the excesses of industrial agriculture and soulless vending machines kitchens.

Less stuffy than many of our colleagues

The policy of Vienna is already longer closer than the title of "TV chef or celebrity restaurateur" suggest. Since the show-oriented stations, with which Wiener cemented their reputation sent are on the one hand, The restaurateur operates a Restaurant in the Berlin art Museum, the Hamburger Bahnhof, you used to run the canteen of the Federal presidential office, as the First with Johannes B. Kerner cooked, and Reality television made when it was still new. She toured in search of culinary discoveries for the TV-channel Arte through Europe and doubled by her marriage to the actor Peter Lohmeyer at times, your trips to red carpets.

Next to her is her work with the Sarah-Wiener Foundation, which has worked for twelve years in schools for better food and farm tours for students organized, do not know how a cucumber looks like. With actions such as "I can cook" has reached the Foundation, more than 100 000 children. The Head now lives on her telegenic 800-acre estate Kerkow in the Uckermark, where she explains the benefits of mixing the seed and appropriate saddle pig farming.

Helped in the success of Wiener has certain that you appear more authentic and less stuffy than many of its colleagues. As the daughter of the cultural philosopher and jazz musician Oswald Wiener, she grew up with two siblings in the case of the single mother in Vienna, the artist Lore Heuermann, who did not know often, how the rent should be paid. Vienna self-describes himself as "lazy and angry child", dropped out of school and 16 years kiffend and swiping through Europe and hitchhiked.

Some find that they Images overdo it with the care of your Underdog, if you move out against the inequality in nutritional issues to the field. Others accuse her of verzettele with all of your projects, and you turn the nose on your all-too-down-to-earth cuisine. Criticism of the Vienna with self-irony encountered: could not cook "from everything that I can, at best," she says.

the allegation of Self-PR to counteract, commented on the cross-entry in the policy as a precaution, with the sentence: "This is not a Sarah-Wiener's personality number". You should move to the European Parliament, will be the reality of balance is interesting: Are politically active chefs naive or you have to contribute at the end of a surprising amount of for the future?