Manfred Klimek

Manfred Klimek (* 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian photographer, photojournalist , non-fiction author , columnist and blogger in Vienna.

Live and act

After training as a photographer, Manfred Klimek was employed as a photographer for Wiener magazine . Since 1982 he has mainly been involved in portrait photography of well-known people such as Birgit Minichmayr , Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Werner Herzog , Paulus Manker , Christoph Türcke , Woody Allen , Roy Scheider , Michel Houellebecq , Henri Levi , Patricia Highsmith , Gert Voss , Ignaz Kirchner , Elfriede Jelinek , Markus Lüpertz , Wim Wenders , Michael Schumacher , Gerhard Schröder , Rob Lowe , Roman Polański , Helmut Schmidt , Bernhard Minetti , Christoph Schlingensief , Jakob Arjouni , Bruno Ganz , and many more. After 1986 he worked in Germany, among other things as a photographer for Tempo in Hamburg, then for Spiegel , Die Zeit and Stern . Other photographic works for international media have appeared in Gentlemen's Quarterly , Vogue and The Sunday Times . He also works as a freelance author in social, socio-political, culinary and culinary-political areas.

From 1998 to 2003 he was the photo editor of the Austrian news magazine profil and taught from 2000 to 2003 as a lecturer at the MAZ - Swiss School of Journalism in Lucerne . He acquired knowledge of wine language and oenology as an autodidact , became a wine connoisseur and published relevant articles in several magazines and journals such as Vinum , Falstaff , Der Feinschmecker and Mixology . Manfred Klimek made his debut in 1999 with the book The noble cooking. The Euro-Asian cuisine and has worked as a co-author and food photographer for non-fiction books on the subject of food and drink since 2005.

In 1999 he founded the Fattoria Kappa winery in Bolgheri together with the journalist Stefan Klasmann and the oenologist Andrea di Mario , but it no longer exists with him in this form. He was a freelance author of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, the Internet platform Vice , the business magazine brand eins and the world on Sunday . In 2005 he accompanied Joschka Fischer for ten days during the election campaign .

Together with Marcus Johst, he founded the wine blog Captain Cork in Berlin at the end of 2009 and was its editor-in-chief from 2009 to the beginning of 2014 . In 2009 he wrote the concept of the documentary Out of Control about Udo Proksch and directed several interviews.

In May 2015 he founded the journalistic wine platform thewineparty.de , which Stuart Pigott recommended as a serious candidate for “The best wine publication in German”. After a lot of rest in late 2015, he gave up the blog in early 2016.

From the first edition in autumn 2015 to January 2019, he was editor-in-chief of the wine magazine Schluck . Between April 2019 and October 2019, i.e. during the Ibiza affair and the new elections in Austria, Klimek was WELT's foreign policy correspondent in Vienna.

Manfred Klimek speaks publicly about his drug addiction and the resulting multiple personality disorder. In 2012 he was admitted to a hospital because of an overdose of ecstasy or MDMA and received intensive care, as he documented in a newspaper article.

Books (selection)

Contribution as author:

• with Rainer Balcerowiak: Captain Cork . Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8338-3585-8 .

Participation as a photographer:

• with Rudolf Novak: Grafenegg . Sound meets scenery . Residenz Verlag , Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7017-3313-2 .

Participation as a food photographer:

• with Christian Seiler (ed.): The noble cooking. The Euro-Asian cuisine . Czernin Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7076-0008-4 .
• with Wolfram Siebeck , Wolfgang Lechner (Eds.): German classics. 10 top chefs as guests . Hölker Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-88117-696-9 .
• with Andreas Döllerer , Christian Grünwald (Ed.): The new home cookbook. Traditional Salzburg dishes and modern avant-garde cuisine . D + R Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902469-12-0 .
• with Heinz Hanner , Christian Grünwald (eds.): Hanners Gourmet-ABC. An à la carte cookbook . D + R Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902469-07-2 .
• with Andreas Wojta , Luzia Ellert, Christian Grünwald (eds.): My Viennese cuisine. D + R Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902469-11-3 .
• with Toni Mörwald , Herbert Hacker: Vegetables. The best recipes to pamper you . Studienverlag-Löwenzahn, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-7066-2491-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Klimek in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Literature by and about Manfred Klimek in the bibliographic database WorldCat .
• Manfred Klimek in the Internet Movie Database (English).
• Captain Cork website
• Website thewineparty
• 52 newspaper articles by Manfred Klimek In: Die Zeit . Retrieved July 25, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birgit Minichmayr
2. ↑ Marcel Reich-Ranicki
3. ↑ Werner Herzog  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Paulus Manker
5. ↑ Christoph Türcke
6. ↑ Annual Report 2003. (PDF) MAZ - Die Schweizer Journalistenschule , 2003, p. 24 , accessed on October 31, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Article by Manfred Klimek In: Die Zeit . Retrieved July 25, 2013 . 
8. ↑ I want the red ones again . In: The European of July 22, 2010
9. ↑ Manfred Klimek. The wine connoisseur. In: The European. April 19, 2012, accessed July 25, 2013 . 
10. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4150338/
11. ↑ Stuart Pigott: What good are wine tips from the Internet? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 3rd June 2015.
12. ↑ http://www.schluck-magazin.de/
13. ↑ https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus199557806/Oesterreich-Sebastian-Kurz-kann-schaffen-was-Merkel-nicht-gelang.html
14. ↑ When I was. Wiener Zeitung , July 24, 2019, accessed on April 22, 2020 (German).