Reportedly ate Wolfram Siebeck until about 80 years his first currywurst – and he found it natural terribly: “My hunger for Currywurst is satisfied to end of life,” he said afterwards. Into old age of gourmet, food critic, author and columnist retained his bite. He saw himself as the culinary consciences Germany. “Who wants to make a difference and change, be able to talk and bite plain text,” he said about his work. On Thursday Siebeck, who lived in a castle in Baden Mahlberg near Freiburg, died at age 87
He died after a short illness at a hospital in Lahr -. Not far from his place of residence, as his wife of Deutsche Presse-Agentur said
a few years ago, when he was 85, Siebeck said with satisfaction:. “. the food and drink has become my purpose in life more than 60 years ago” he was regarded as part of the “left-enjoying”, etched against the often hostile enjoyment “Protestant heritage” in Germany. Often and gladly he drove over the past decades to France. The country was close to his home, only a few kilometers away.
“My mother and my grandmother cooked miserable”
In 1950, around, with just over 20, he started with the good Eat. There was then a trip to France, which brought him to the taste. Culinary he was previously no. “My mother and my grandmother cooked lousy, there was also in the war years nothing worthwhile to eat.” In the land of Roux dishes and “Plump kitchen German housewives” he was in the following decades as ambassador for good food and drink. He was, for example, knowing how to have foie gras, not durchzubraten meat or appreciate offal such tripe as a specialty – in the early Federal Republic all not a given
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born about 1928 in Duisburg, Siebeck grew up in Essen and Bochum. When the war ended in 1945 came as Siebeck Flakhelfer in northern Germany in British prisoner of war was interned for several months on the island of Fehmarn. Soon after, he attended the Art School in Wuppertal, where he trained as a graphic artist.
He first worked as a sign painter, then was in the “Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” newly founded (WAZ) newspaper cartoonist. He was a long time freelance illustrator, then became the author. He wrote for newspapers and magazines such as “twentysomething”, “Star”, then for many years for the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” and later for “Time” magazine and the gourmet magazine “Der Feinschmecker”.
“The Germans spend too little money for good food from”
His criticisms were often controversial, many readers were put out on the supposedly arrogant tone and the raised hedonism – other loved him just that. He published many books, has been designed by a brand. Also contributed to television broadcasts with him at. In recent years, he even dabbled as Blogger.
Reisten lot and walked like to eat: Barbara and Wolfram Siebeck
“For me educating consumers is paramount,” Siebeck said. “Food and drink is all the rage. But progressed properly we are in all the years; on the contrary, “he said to the last. His review: “The Germans spend too little money for good food, and they have fallen for the illusion of ready meals.” But let enjoy learn. “Instead of the supermarket, people should shop locally at good butchers, cheese makers or producers,” he advised. “The improved quality of life.”
He cultivated himself as an opponent of cooking shows ( “cook or eat better, they can not thereby”) and cookbooks ( “Most people are cookbooks only as an exhibit for the bookshelf”). With vegetarians he could ever do anything with ( “joy or pure pleasure of eating I can not discover in vegetarians”). With clearly formulated views like this he made naturally not only friends.
Siebeck and his wife Barbara, ex-wife of the famous photographer Will McBride, who brought three sons into the marriage, cooked rarely home. They walked like to eat and often traveled to know kitchen and chefs from other countries. For shopping they used prefer the weekly market.
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