Stefan Keller (entrepreneur)

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Stefan Keller (born May 21, 1960 in Basel ) is a Swiss journalist , author and entrepreneur.

Life

Stefan Keller comes from a cheesemaker and baker family. Growing up in Hünibach am Thunersee, he trained at the state teacher training college in Spiez (1976–1981). He then worked as a freelance journalist and gastronomy about ten years, resulted inter alia in the Engadin the restaurant Lagrev in Isola and the hotel and heading home Chesa Pool in Fex Valley in Sils Maria . During this time he taught hotel management assistants. Host patent and wine trade patent were acquired. From 1994 to 1999 Stefan Keller worked as an editor in Zurich for the international magazine Vinum , where, among other things, he was responsible for the implementation of the national Chasselas Cup. In 2000 he transferred the previous activities to the company Stefan Keller & Partner.

Keller is an epee fencer in his spare time and finished 11th in the age category 50–59 at the 2012 World Championships. He won the Austrian Seniors Championships in 2016 and the Otto Sokopp Memorial Tournament in 2016, 2017 and 2019. Keller lives in Rapperswil-Jona and Promontogno .

Ventures

The following sub-areas are combined in the Stefan Keller & Partner conglomerate:

  • From 2002 to 2014 partner in the white production company I Vinautori SA. in the Valtellina . Today cooperation with Fratelli Triacca, Tirano.
  • schnaps.ch GmbH , a schnapps company that develops and sells specialties from Switzerland.
  • Context stands for project development, promotion and publication. Contributions by authors have appeared in the SonntagsZeitung , Weltwoche , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , and DU . Stefan Keller is a permanent employee of the Schweizerische Weinzeitung, probably the oldest specialist wine magazine (has been published since 1897). He writes regular publications in the seasonal kitchen and the daily newspapers Südostschweiz and Berner Zeitung . In the area of ​​corporate communication, customer letters, brochures, magazines and yearbooks are produced, primarily for companies in the catering, wine and spirits industries .
  • Triage : Consulting for operations in the field of operational and product development, marketing, public relations.

Stefan Keller is co-founder of the Swiss Schnaps Forum Association (also: Forum Suisse des eaux-de-vie or Forum svizzero dell'acquavite) (1998), which launched the national award for local distillates, and of the Mémoire des Vins Suisses Association (founded in 2002 , Transfer to an association in 2004), which builds up a collection of Swiss wines with a representative character. Since 1998 Stefan has been a member of the jury of the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles , an international wine competition. In 2001 he took on behalf of Messe Switzerland , the Bureau of the annual Swiss wine competition La Sélection in Basel. He directed it until 2012.

Together with Emil Zopfi, Keller wrote the play Ein Russ im Bergell , the story of Christian Klucker and Anton von Rydzewski , one of the most tragic rope teams in Alpine history. The actors Gian Rupf and René Schnoz have played the play on Swiss stages and in SAC huts since the first performance in 2010 .

Fonts

  • Prosecco & Co .: Guide to Italy's sparkling wines. Falken, Niedernhausen 1999, ISBN 3-8068-7443-3 .
  • with Andreas Heller and Bendicht Beglinger: It doesn't always have to be Chardonnay. The 50 most important grape varieties and their wines. 2nd Edition. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85823-974-7 .
  • with Isabelle Rucki (ed.): Hotel Bregaglia : a boulder in Bergell. A project by the Institute for Cultural Research Graubünden. Verlag hier + now, Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-03919-129-1 . (Italian translation: Hotel Bregaglia - Storia e Vita di un Albergo. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2009)
  • with J. Gantenbein: chestnuts, granite and palazzi. Architecture in Bergell. In: raised ground floor . Special issue as a supplement to Hochparterre No. 5, 2012, ISSN  1422-8742 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 16th Veterans World Championships , results epee men 50–59
  2. ↑ Austrian Fencing Association - Tournaments: Results ÖM Seniors (PDF). Austrian Fencing Association, May 1, 2016, accessed on May 18, 2017 (German).
  3. ^ Austrian Fencing Association - tournaments: Otto Sokopp; Results (PDF). Austrian Fencing Association, February 24, 2019, accessed on March 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ www.bergtheater.ch

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personal data
SURNAME Keller, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, author and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland