Christoph Wagner (cookbook author)

Christoph Wagner (born May 23, 1954 in Linz ; †  June 17,  2010 ) was an Austrian journalist and publicist who was best known for his cookbooks and crime novels.

Life

Christoph Wagner studied German, English and cultural management in Vienna and did internship (unpaid internship) with Peter Zadek , Rudolf Noelte and Jérôme Savary in Vienna and Bochum . He worked as an author of numerous cabaret programs and as a theater author.

A reading performance of Johanna or how to win a war according to Voltaire (1980) took place in Hans Gratzer's playhouse, the world premiere of Assassin at the Vienna Ensembletheater (1981) and von Strindberg no longer lives in the Theater am Petersplatz (1983). From 1979 to 1983 he worked as a theater critic, from 1981 also as head of culture at Wiener Extrablatt (first as a colleague, then as successor to Christoph Ransmayr ).

After the special edition was discontinued, he moved to the lifestyle editorial office of the Kurier, which was then emerging, and wrote a weekly restaurant column there from 1984 to 1994 . At the same time he worked between 1984 and 1998 as editor-in-chief of Gault Millau Austria and founded the Gault Millau magazine in 1989 . In addition to numerous essays and features on cultural and travel topics, Wagner wrote mostly on culinary topics.

Since separating from Guide Gault-Millau in 1998, Christoph Wagner has been the editor of the annual gastronomy guide Where is Austria? and author of gourmet columns in the magazines Profil (1996–2006), NEWS (from 2006) and Gusto ; He also founded and supervised the gourmet criticism and discussion platform www.speising.net. He also published (especially in the 1990s) in newspapers and magazines from GEO and Merian to FAZ to the Tages-Anzeiger .

Wagner was married and the father of two daughters. He lived in Vienna , Linz and Kindberg .

Awards

• 1995 Golden Book of the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade for 150,000 copies of Die gute Küche (1994, until 2008 600,000 copies sold),
• 2004 A Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the best regional cookbook in the world, Tyrol cooks! , and another for Three Ladies and My Stove as the best literary cookbook in the German-speaking area
• 2004 Silver medal from the German Gastronomic Academy for the dessert cookbook Die Süße Küche
• 2004: Danubius Donauland Non-Fiction Book Prize

Works

Cookbooks (selection)

• The good kitchen. The Austrian standard cookbook (with Ewald Plachutta ). Orac, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7015-0310-9
• Everything God allowed. The culinary bible. Eating & drinking in the Old & New Testament . Brandstätter, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85447-507-1
• Fast food. The story of the quick meal . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-593-35346-6
• Men at the stove. How to cook wives and daughters . Deuticke, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-216-30286-5
• From the New Year's pig to the Christmas goose. A calendar of culinary traditions . Pichler, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85431-170-2
• Paris. A musical and culinary foray . Book + CD. Mosaik, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-576-11292-8
• The good kitchen. Part 2 (with Ewald Plachutta). Brandstätter, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85498-145-7
• The sweet kitchen. The Austrian pastry cookbook (with Toni Mörwald ). NP, St. Pölten 2003; Residence, Salzburg 5th August 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-3165-7
• Tyrol is cooking! (with Lois Hechenblaikner and Karin Longariva). Brandstätter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85498-296-8
• Three ladies and my stove. Recipes and stories from the life of a connoisseur . Deuticke, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-216-30723-9
• The Mediterranean cuisine (with Franz Haslauer). Pichler, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85431-331-4
• Enjoyment around Vienna. The weekend guide for culture & cuisine . Pichler, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85431-397-7
• The Asian cuisine (with Kim Sohyi ). Pichler, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85431-431-8
• Friuli cookbook . Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85378-619-2
• Upper Austrian cuisine. 500 classic recipes (with Ingrid Pernkopf ). Styria, Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7012-0032-0
• Conscience bite. Animal ethics and food culture (with Eva Maria Maier and Rudolf Winkelmayer ). Löwenzahn, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-7066-2420-6
• Kronländer cookbook. 450 old Austrian recipes (with Adi Bittermann). Pichler, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85431-465-3
• Adria cookbook . Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-85378-636-9
• Austro tapas. 250 clever, simple recipes (with Toni Mörwald and Jörg Wörther ). Löwenzahn, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7066-2434-3
• Favorite Austrian dishes. Over 500 delicious recipes from all 9 federal states (with Renate Wagner-Wittula). Löwenzahn, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7066-2437-4

Crime novels

• Schattenbach . A Carozzi crime thriller. Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna 2002; Haymon, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-85218-809-6 .
• Stuffed dormouse . A Carozzi crime thriller. Haymon, Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-85218-542-2 .
• Muj and the heart eater from Kindberg . A Südbahn thriller. Haymon, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-826-3 .
• The apple house. Mario Carozzi's mysterious experiences in the interior of Europe. Haymon, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-688-7 (hardcover: 140 pages).

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Christoph Wagner  in the German Digital Library
• Obituary in the courier ( memento from June 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Obituary at CaptainCork.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ Christoph Wagner on krimi-couch.de , accessed on March 5, 2014
3. ↑ DONAULAND and ORF award the "danubius" non-fiction book prize to Christoph Wagner . OTS bulletin of April 23, 2004, accessed December 16, 2017.