German wine queen

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German Wine Queen 2018/19: Carolin Klöckner

The German Wine Queen is the representative ( product queen ) of German wine who is elected for one year and is usually elected in the Palatinate town of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . The area wine queens of the meanwhile thirteen German wine-growing regions for quality wine apply for the office .

The 71st German wine queen is Angelina Vogt (Nahe) . She was elected on September 27, 2019 for the 2019/2020 term of office.

history

Beginnings

In 1931, a German wine-growing region, the Palatinate , chose a wine queen for the first time . The idea for this Palatinate wine queen came from the publisher Daniel Meininger . At his suggestion, Ruth Bachrodt , later Theysohn, was chosen, who came from Pirmasens in the West Palatinate , where no wine is grown at all. Her successor, Cilly Seitz , was elected in 1932 after a regular tender. As early as 1933, the ritual passed to the National Socialist rulers . Until the beginning of the Second World War , the official "Gau photographer" looked for the "prettiest young woman connected to wine" every year on behalf of the Gauleiter Josef Bürckel, who was very popular in the Palatinate .

Because the Palatinate Wine Queen was the only wine queen in Germany, she represented German wine in general in addition to Palatinate wine until 1939 and then again from 1947 to 1949 without any additional choice in personal union. In 1949 there was only one election, but following the election, Elisabeth Kuhn from Diedesfeld was officially named German Wine Queen , making her the only Palatinate and German Wine Queen in the same year.

Criteria for candidacy

Since 1950, the German Wine Queen has been determined in a separate election: Every German wine-growing region chooses its regional Wine Queen every year; The German Wine Queen is elected from among the regional wine queens in the following year. Until 1999, the condition was that the candidates had to be single - that is, they were not allowed to be married or divorced - and that they had to come from a winemaking family. Since the year 2000, the guidelines only require applicants to have a “clear and strong bond with German wines”, to be proven by “appropriate wine-related professional training and / or a family connection with local viticulture and / or qualification as a regional wine queen”. In addition, applicants must be at least 18 years old on the day of the election.

Change in requirements

For more than 30 years the wine queens corresponded to the traditional image of the pretty, good girl in costume; only the original scepter gave way to a wine glass in 1966. In 1950, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described the candidates as "real daughters of the vineyards, of strong stature, very healthy and apple-cheeked". At that time, the exams consisted of dancing a waltz and giving a speech. Until the end of the 1950s, the representation duties of the German wine queen were essentially limited to the domestic sales markets. There were appearances at wine festivals , at Green Week and at social events such as the presentation of the German Wine Culture Prize . Trips abroad such as to Belgium (Irmgard Mohler) or Spain ( Wilma Seyer, later Scholl ) remained the exception. However, the then Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano recognized the diplomatic potential for the image of the young Federal Republic when he presented Wilma Seyer at the diplomatic wine weeks he had suggested at Eberbach Monastery . In the following year, a wine queen from Germany traveled to the USA for the first time in the person of the then Palatine and later German wine queen Christel Koch.

In the 1980s, the image of the wine queen began to change fundamentally in public, mainly due to the appearance of personalities such as Karin Molitor (1982/83) and Petra Mayer (1988/89). In 1981 the dirndl , which had previously been mandatory for photo opportunities, was abolished. From the 1990s the office for young winemakers and women interested in viticulture became more and more a career springboard in politics ( Julia Klöckner ), in marketing ( Katja Schweder , Evelyn Schmidt ), in gastronomy (Carina Dostert) or in their own business (Sandra Hake, Sylvia Benzinger ). A good appearance and talent for dancing are no longer decisive reasons for choosing a candidate. Instead, in addition to well-founded specialist knowledge of oenology and cellar technology , quick-wittedness and eloquence as well as foreign language skills and export knowledge are required. That is why a preparatory seminar for the candidates was introduced in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in 2009.

Crown

Coronation of the German Wine Queen 2017/18: Katharina Staab (center) with the wine princesses Laura Lahm (left) and Charlotte Freiberger (right)

Over the decades, the royal insignia , the crown of wine, which is particularly important abroad , has undergone changes and adapted to the respective fashion.

  • The first crown was massive and graced the heads from 1949.
  • The second crown was created twenty years later, in 1969. It was designed in a very striking way and contained colored elements.
  • The third crown, introduced in 1978, looked a bit more delicate and was still decorated with purple and green grapes.
  • The fourth crown from 1988 presented itself asymmetrically, but was still dominated by grapes and grape leaves.
  • The fifth crown, in use since 2000, was modern and filigree. A grape in the middle with thirteen stones symbolized the 13 German growing areas.
  • The sixth crown was presented in the summer of 2015. It is six centimeters high, weighs 90 grams and is made of gold-plated silver. Decorated with small stones, it is particularly effective because of its shape. Fine tendrils are reminiscent of the ornamentation of Art Nouveau, next to all three copies adorns a stylized grape in the middle. This corresponds to the logo of the DWI with which it has been advertising worldwide since last year. If before the crowns of the queen and princess were different, now all three are almost identical; only the queen's has one more arch and 13 small gemstones made of red garnet and green tourmaline . They were designed by the gold master workshop Aurelia in Bad Kreuznach .

choice

places

Inscription on the Neustadter Saalbau: Coronation site of the German Wine Queen
Secondary postmark from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse: Coronation city of the German Wine Queen

The election is organized by the German Wine Institute (DWI) based in Bodenheim . It traditionally takes place in the Neustadter Saalbau on the occasion of the German Grape Harvest Festival on Friday of the second festival weekend in October. It is possible to deviate from the usual location for important reasons; the voting locations next to Neustadt an der Weinstrasse were:

  1. 1952 Freiburg im Breisgau
  2. 1954 Heilbronn
  3. 1957 Würzburg
  4. 1960 Bad Dürkheim
  5. 1963 Mainz
  6. 1966 Stuttgart
  7. 1969 Offenburg
  8. 1972 Stuttgart
  9. 1975 Stuttgart
  10. 1984 Trier
  11. 1988 Berlin
  12. 1993 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
  13. 1998 Freyburg (Unstrut)
  14. 2006 Dresden (800th city anniversary of the most important place in the Saxon wine-growing region )
  15. 2009 Heilbronn
    In May 2009, the DWI and the mayor of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse signed a contract that stipulates that Neustadt will be the coronation site until 2020. This rule may be deviated from at most three times per decade "in order to give other German wine-growing regions the opportunity to respond to special events and anniversaries with the coronation."
  16. 2013 Offenburg, Upper Rhine Hall
  17. 2016 Mainz, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Rheinhessen

Elective modalities

Hall construction in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse before the SWR broadcast for the election of the 69th German Wine Queen on September 29, 2017

All 13 regional wine queens first submit to a public expert survey, which is carried out by around 70 jury members and followed by the event guests. Six of the 13 candidates will be nominated, who will have to show spontaneity, charm and wit in the second round during the gala event. The SWR television broadcasts the survey a day later as a recording , the gala is broadcast live .

From the six remaining candidates, a queen and usually two, in rare cases three princesses are chosen. During their one-year term of office, the Queen and Princesses promote German wine at trade fairs , wine festivals and other events, including abroad.

Election results

All German wine queens since 1949

# year Wine Queen Life dates Age at
taking office		 Wine-growing area place of origin
1. 1949/1950 Elisabeth Kuhn , later Gies 1930-2012 19th Palatinate Diedesfeld
2. 1950/1951 Marie-Elisabeth Pütz , later Steffen 1925-2018 25th Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(since 2006 Mosel) 		Saarburg
3. 1951/1952 Gisela Koch, later Colonius 1931-2009 20th Middle Rhine St. Goarshausen
4th 1952/1953 Elisabeth Huber to bathe Neuweier
5. 1953/1954 Mathilde Machwirth Near Heddesheim
6th 1954/1955 Erika Hofmann Rheinhessen St. Johann
7th 1955/1956 Irmgard Mohler 1937-1981 18th Palatinate Bad Bergzabern
8th. 1956/1957 Margret Hoffranzen, later Wilmes 1937-2002 19th Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(since 2006 Mosel) 		Mehring
9. 1957/1958 Karoline Hartmann 18th Francs Rödelsee
10. 1958/1959 Rosemary Schreck 24 Francs Klingenberg
11. 1959/1960 Wilma Seyer , later Scholl 1939 20th Rheingau Kiedrich
12. 1960/1961 Christel Koch 18th Palatinate Ungstein
13. 1961/1962 Marlies Kaiser 22nd Rheinhessen Dintesheim
14th 1962/1963 Marita Heinzen, later Schmitz 19th Ahr Ahrweiler
15th 1963/1964 Inge Schwaab, later Heidenreich Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(since 2006 Mosel) 		Zeltingen
16. 1964/1965 Marita the farmer 1944 20th Francs Volkach
17th 1965/1966 Waltraud Hey 19th Palatinate Oberotterbach
18th 1966/1967 Use Theobald 22nd Near High places
19th 1967/1968 Ruth Collet, later Kutz Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(since 2006 Mosel) 		Reil
20th 1968/1969 Brigitte Wolf 21st Francs Veitshochheim
21st 1969/1970 Marika Gebhardt 19th Rheingau Martinsthal
22nd 1970/1971 Erika Sinß 18th Near Windesheim
23. 1971/1972 Ruth Kröther, later Kern 1951-2012 20th Palatinate Freinsheim
24. 1972/1973 Ulrike Seyffardt , later Neradt 1951 Rheingau Martinsthal
25th 1973/1974 Ingrid Kurth 21st Ahr Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
26th 1974/1975 Doris Emmerich 1954 20th Near Waldböckelheim
27. 1975/1976 Edelgard Bauer 1955 20th Near Cherry red
28. 1976/1977 Friedlinde Gurr , later Gurr-Hirsch 1954 22nd Württemberg Untergruppenbach
29 1977/1978 Gisela Faber to bathe Freiburg
30th 1978/1979 Heike Schmitt 19th Rheinhessen Nierstein
31. 1979/1980 Rita Moog, later Moog fisherman Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(since 2006 Mosel) 		Valwig
32. 1980/1981 Regine Usinger, later Usinger-Frank 1958 22nd Rheinhessen Neck home
33. 1981/1982 Hildegard Weber Palatinate Gönnheim
34. 1982/1983 Karin Molitor, later Molitor-Hartmann 1962 20th Francs Sommerach
35. 1983/1984 Carola Geiger, later Geiger-Kaiser 1962 21st Württemberg Grantschen
36. 1984/1985 Ursula Maur 22nd Ahr Mayschoss
37. 1985/1986 Mechthild Meyer, later Weis 1962 23 Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(since 2006 Mosel) 		Waldrach
38. 1986/1987 Helga Drauz, later Drauz-Oertel 1967 19th Württemberg Heilbronn
39. 1987/1988 Jutta Fassian, later Fassian-Emmrich Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(since 2006 Mosel) 		Mehring
40. 1988/1989 Petra Mayer 1966 22nd to bathe Schliengen
41. 1989/1990 Renate Schäfer 1968 21st Francs Astheim
42. 1990/1991 Birgit Schehl, later Rebholz-Schehl 1969 21st Palatinate Hainfeld
43. 1991/1992 Lydia Bollig, later Bollig-Strohm 1970 21st Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(since 2006 Mosel) 		Trittenheim
44. 1992/1993 Astrid Bechtel 1972 20th Rheinhessen Heppenheim
45. 1993/1994 Sandra Hake, later Frölich 1970 23 Saale-Unstrut Freyburg
46. 1994/1995 Ulrike Neymeyer 1968 26th to bathe Endingen
47. 1995/1996 Julia Kloeckner 1972 23 Near Guldental
48. 1996/1997 Ines Hoffmann 1972 24 Saxony Dresden
49. 1997/1998 Natascha Thoma, later Thoma-Widmann 1971 26th to bathe Bring
50. 1998/1999 Susanne Völker , later Nice 1974 24 Rheinhessen Oppenheim
51. 1999/2000 Simone Renth , later Renth-Queins 1973 26th Rheinhessen Schwabenheim
52. 2000/2001 Carina Dostert, later Curman 1979 21st Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(since 2006 Mosel) 		Nittel
53. 2001/2002 Petra Gardener 1980 21st Hessian mountain road Zwingenberg
54. 2002/2003 Judith Honrath 1980 22nd Near Langenlonsheim
55. 2003/2004 Nicole Then 1980 23 Francs Sommerach
56. 2004/2005 Petra Zimmermann 1984 20th Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(since 2006 Mosel) 		Temmels
57. 2005/2006 Sylvia Benzinger , later Benzinger-Kugler 1978 27 Palatinate Kirchheim
58. 2006/2007 Katja Schweder 1980 26th Palatinate High city
59. 2007/2008 Evelyn Schmidt 1983 24 Saxony Radebeul
60. 2008/2009 Marlies Dumbsky 1985 23 Francs Volkach
61. 2009/2010 Sonja Christ , later Christ-Brendemühl 1984 25th Moselle Upper skin
62. 2010/2011 Mandy large garden 1987 22nd Ahr Dernau
63. 2011/2012 Annika Strebel 1987 23 Rheinhessen Wintersheim
64. 2012/2013 Julia Bertram 1989 22nd Ahr Dernau
65. 2013/2014 Nadine Poss 1991 22nd Near Windesheim
66. 2014/2015 Janina Chicken 1989 24 Palatinate Bad Dürkheim
67. 2015/2016 Josefine Schlumberger 1994 21st to bathe To run
68. 2016/2017 Lena Endesfelder 1992 23 Moselle Mehring
69. 2017/2018 Katharina Staab 1990 27 Near Oberhausen on the Nahe
70. 2018/2019 Carolin Klöckner 1995 23 Württemberg Vaihingen an der Enz
71. 2019/2020 Angelina Vogt 1994 25th Near Weinheim

  • Neustadter Winzerfestzug : Grand car with Sonja Christ, the German Wine Queen 2009/10

  • Evelyn Schmidt (2007/2008)

  • Katja Schweder (2006/2007)

  • Sylvia Benzinger-Kugler (2005/2006)

  • Mechthild Meyer (1985/1986)

  • Gisela Faber (1977/1978)

Frequency of choice according to wine-growing areas

Origin of the queen Election year number
Ahr 1962, 1973, 1984, 2010 , 2012 5
to bathe 1952, 1977, 1988 , 1994, 1997, 2015 6th
Francs 1957, 1958, 1964 , 1968, 1982, 1989, 2003 , 2008 8th
Hessian mountain road 2001 1
Middle Rhine 1951 1
Mosel
(until 2005 Mosel-Saar-Ruwer) 		1950 , 1956, 1963, 1967, 1979, 1985, 1987, 1991, 2000, 2004, 2009 , 2016 12
Near 1953, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1995 , 2002, 2013 , 2017 , 2019 10
Palatinate 1949 , 1955, 1960, 1965, 1971, 1981, 1990, 2005 , 2006 , 2014 10
Rheingau 1959 , 1969, 1972 3
Rheinhessen 1954, 1961, 1978, 1980, 1992, 1998 , 1999 , 2011 8th
Saale-Unstrut
(participation since 1990) 		1993 1
Saxony
(participation since 1990) 		1996, 2007 2
Württemberg 1976 , 1983, 1986, 2018 4th

After states considered striking that Rheinland-Pfalz 46 of the 71 German Wine queens provides (as of 2019). This is due to the fact that six of the thirteen wine-growing regions are located in this federal state , namely Ahr, Middle Rhine, Moselle, Nahe, Palatinate and Rheinhessen.

All German wine princesses since 1993

year Wine princess Wine-growing area
1993/1994 Anita Krämer
Claudia Rüber		 Ahr
Württemberg
1994/1995 Birgit Schneider
Tanja Elflein		 Near
Franconia
1995/1996 Martina Nickeng Middle Rhine
1996/1997 Gaby Hoffmann
Monika Mertz
Stefanie Koll		 Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
Palatinate
Ahr
1997/1998 Birgit Zehe
Sonja Freund		 Rheinhessen
Palatinate
1998/1999 Catharina Ries
Michaela Heusinger		 Rheingau
Franconia
1999/2000 Sandra Polomski
Sabrina Koll		 Saale-Unstrut
Ahr
2000/2001 Salome Nies
Wiebke Lawall		 Rheingau
Rheinhessen
2001/2002 Julia Hurst
Christine Specht
Martina Klein		 Baden
Middle Rhine
Ahr
2002/2003 Friedrun Schwertle
Simone Wagner
Esther Knewitz		 Württemberg
Rheingau
Rheinhessen
2003/2004 Lisa Edling
Antje Wiedemann		 Hessian mountain road
Saxony
2004/2005 Tina Kiefer
Nadine Jäger		 Palatinate
Rheingau
2005/2006 Nicole Kochan
Katharina Jost		 Moselle-Saar-Ruwer
Middle Rhine
2006/2007 Barbara Fendel
Sandra Soldmann		 Middle Rhine
Saale-Unstrut
2007/2008 Julia Metzler
Susanne Winterling		 Rheinhessen
Palatinate
2008/2009 Sarah Schmitt
Andrea Köninger		 Near
Baden
2009/2010 Isabell Kindle
Christl Schäfer		 Baden
Württemberg
2010/2011 Melanie Unsleber
Katja Bohnert		 Franconia
Baden
2011/2012 Ramona Sturm
Elisabeth Born		 Moselle
Saale-Unstrut
2012/2013 Natalie Henninger
Anna Hochdörffer		 Baden
Palatinate
2013/2014 Sabine Wagner
Ramona Diegel		 Rheingau
Rheinhessen
2014/2015 Kathrin Schnitzius
Judith Dorst		 Moselle
Rheinhessen
2015/2016 Caroline Gunthier
Katharina Fladung		 Hessian mountain road
Rheingau
2016/2017 Mara Walz
Christina Schneider		 Württemberg
Franconia
2017/2018 Charlotte Freiberger
Laura Lahm		 Hessian mountain road
Rheinhessen
2018/2019 Klara Zehnder
Inga Storck		 Franconia
Palatinate

literature

  • Wolfgang Diehl: Bacchus procession and Herbstschmüerel . About autumn customs in the Palatinate and some neighboring regions (=  writings on wine history . No. 151 ). Society for the History of Wine, Wiesbaden 2005, DNB  977245330 .
  • Wolfgang Junglas : 60 years of German wine queens . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-7973-1099-6 .
  • Wolfgang Junglas u. a .: Wine & Crown. 50 years of the German Wine Queen 1949–1998 . project office, Ingelheim 1998, ISBN 3-9805502-1-4 .
  • Martina Weber: The wine queens . In: Custom research regional (=  Mainz studies on language and folk research . No. 14 ). Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden / Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05368-9 , pp. 217-224 .

Web links

Commons : Deutsche Weinkönigin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c Neustadt remains the coronation site . In: The Rhine Palatinate . Ludwigshafen May 19, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b Throw-in: effective for advertising . In: The Rhine Palatinate . Ludwigshafen May 19, 2009.
  3. ↑ Carolin Klöckner from Württemberg is the German Wine Queen. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Historical. (No longer available online.) Pfaelzische-weinkoenigin.de, archived from the original on January 21, 2013 ; Retrieved September 13, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfaelzische-weinkoenigin.de
  5. ↑ Gisela Kirschstein: Wine and Knowledge . In: Welt am Sonntag . October 12, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  6. ↑ Stefanie Widmann: New Crowns for Wine - Above all abroad, the royal insignia are indispensable . In: Allgemeine Zeitung . Mainz, August 6, 2015, p. 6
  7. ↑ Calendar of events. (No longer available online.) German Wine Institute, archived from the original on September 11, 2013 ; Retrieved September 25, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscheweine.de
  8. ↑ Monika Nellessen and Michel Erfurth: Rheinhessen anniversary: ​​Mainz chooses a wine queen in 2016 - campaign by the city and winemakers In: Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung from May 13, 2014
  9. ↑ Entry on Gisela Colonius in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on March 18, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Existing personal articles are linked over the election year .