Katja Schweder
Katja Schweder , later Katja Klohr (born June 15, 1980 in Landau in the Palatinate ), from the Palatinate wine-growing region, was the German Wine Queen in 2006/07. She was elected the 58th German Wine Queen on October 6, 2006 in Dresden as the successor to Sylvia Benzinger . Before that, she had been the regional wine queen of the Palatinate for a year . With Sylvia Benzinger and Katja Schweder - for the first time since the beginning of the elections in 1949 - Palatine wine queens were appointed twice in a row to the highest office that the German wine industry has to assign.
Life
Katja Schweder comes from a family of winemakers in the southern Palatinate wine-growing community of Hochstadt .
The trained medical assistant and graduate in administration initially worked for the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz. In the weekly program supplement LEO of the regional daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz , Schweder wrote for the column "LEO-Lexikon Wein" until October 2006, in which technical terms from oenology were explained. She has been working for the BASF wine cellar since December 1, 2007 . In 2009, the Foundation for the Promotion of Literature in the Palatinate appointed Schweder to be Deidesheim Tower Clerk for two years . On May 3, 2010, she was introduced to this literary honorary position, which before her well-known writers such as Wolfgang Altendorf , Rudolf Hagelstange , Ludwig Harig and Fanny Morweiser held.
Palatinate Wine Queen 2005/2006
On September 30, 2005, Schweder was elected 67th Palatinate Wine Queen in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . She had held this position for a year and was responsible for the Palatinate Wine a. a. already represented on trips to China, Italy and Estonia.
German Wine Queen 2006/2007
On October 6, 2006, Schweder won the election of the German Wine Queen against the twelve competitors from all German growing areas . Barbara Fendel, industrial clerk from Oberwesel , as representative of the Middle Rhine wine-growing region and Sandra Soldmann, physiotherapist from Braunsbedra , as representative of the Saale-Unstrut region, were elected as wine princesses . In the preliminary decision with 73 jurors, in addition to Schweder and the two later wine princesses, the regional wine queens Anne Mertes ( Mosel-Saar-Ruwer ) and Simone Landerer ( Baden ) reached the final round; this was also carried out publicly in front of a small expert jury.
The election, to which more than a thousand spectators had paid admission, took place exceptionally there, in the capital of the Saxon wine-growing region , because of the 800th anniversary of Dresden , and not, as since 1949, mostly in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. The event was reported by several ARD broadcasters , u. a. broadcast live by MDR and SWR . The evening was moderated by Gunther Emmerlich .
During her year as the German Wine Queen, Schweder had to represent German viticulture at around 200 events at home and abroad.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ mgi (Markus Giffhorn): steamed noodles and spit roast . In: The Rhine Palatinate . Program supplement LEO . Ludwigshafen August 22, 2019, p. 13 .
- ↑ Weingut Schweder ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ BASF press release (P-07-373): Katja Schweder strengthens the team at the BASF cellar
- ↑ Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Mittelhaardter Rundschau: Drumming for tower scribe , May 4th 2010
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Sylvia Benzinger |
German Wine Queen 2006/2007 |
Evelyn Schmidt |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schweder, Katja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wine queen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landau in the Palatinate , Germany |