Wam cat

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Wam Kat on the stage of "Wendland Reloaded" in Hanover (2010)

Pieter Jan Herman Fredrik (Wam) Kat (born November 23, 1956 in Zeist ) is a Dutch chef who has lived in Germany since 1995. He has become known nationwide for his peace work in the Balkan conflict and as a mobile cook for demonstrators.

Life

Wam Kat is the son of the Dutch sculptor Frits Kat (1922–1975) and grew up in Zeist .

He originally came to cook because he took part in the ship's kitchen on the Greenpeace ship “ Rainbow Warrior ”. There he learned, according to his own statement, that the kitchen is the center of living together, which is an essential part of the atmosphere of a group. Kat was a co-founder of the Dutch rolling vegetarian kitchen Rampenplan , which has been providing food and other services to political activists during longer campaigns since the early 1980s.

He worked during the Yugoslav wars in Za Mir Network with. (“Network for Peace”). He published the Zagreb Diaries he wrote , first in English in the form of a blog , then as a printed book, which was translated into German and Finnish. In 1995 he moved to ZEGG , a municipality in Bad Belzig in Fläming, Brandenburg . He left the community again and now lives in Weitzgrund near Belzig. In Belzig he started the info café Der Winkel , a center for tolerance and better understanding of different cultures, and an example of local actions against right-wing violence.

In 1999 Kat co-founded Balkan Sunflowers (“Balkan Sunflowers ”), a humanitarian and social volunteer organization during and after the Kosovo war that organized leisure activities, schools and social programs for war refugees in refugee camps in Croatia and Bosnia.

After an interview in the taz in 2008, he published the cookbook 24 Recipes for Culinary World Improvement in the same year . The ZEIT reviewer called 24 recipes a "left-wing and a fairly interesting [cookbook] if you manage to break away from the bourgeois chimera of good taste and understand food as a political act".

In 2008, Wam Kat was elected to the city ​​council of Bad Belzig with 444 votes , where he was a non-party member of the four-person parliamentary group of the Left for one term . In 2010 he and ten other people were involved in the preparation of the Ecotopia summer festival .

In 2011 Wam Kat founded the mobile kitchen “Fläming Kitchen”. He played himself in the 80-minute documentary Wastecooking by David Gross and Georg Misch (Austria / Germany 2015). For the globalization-critical traveling documentary film festival Globale , he acted as an expert interlocutor for the audience of the film.

Publications

Wam Kat with his cookbook 24 Recipes (2010)
  • Wam Kat: Zagreb diary , translated from the English by Heidi and Georg Schimpf. In: Der Pazifist , ZDB -ID 1065494-x , Vol. 2 (1992), No. 6/7, 78 pages.
  • Wam Kat: 24 recipes for culinary world improvement . Orange Press, Freiburg i.Br. 2008, ISBN 3-936086-36-2 .

Web links

Commons : Wam Kat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lenz Koppelstätter: Wam Kat, the demo cook . In: Die ZEIT of October 4, 2010.
  2. ↑ Frits cat. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
  3. ↑ Kollektief ramp plan: Keuken ramp plan (Dutch)
  4. ↑ Wired article about ZaMirNET and Suncokret
  5. ↑ Wam Kat: Zagrebin päiväkirja , into Finnish transferred from Anu Kantola. Helsinki, Kirjastopalvelu 1993.
  6. ↑ http://wamkat.de/mein-buch/presse-zum-buch/349-rezepte-zur-weltverbesserung
  7. ↑ http://derwinkel.de/
  8. ↑ Samia Zeitoun: Seeing them grow (PDF; 28 kB) . In: Al-Ahram Weekly , 2. – 8. March 2000.
  9. ↑ Daniel Schulz: "The Sex Pistols loved fried sausage": The Johannes B. Kerner of the anti-atomic movement . In: daily newspaper of July 2, 2008.
  10. ↑ Michael Allmaier: Brussels sprouts sweet . In: Die ZEIT No. 2008/42 of October 9, 2008.
  11. ↑ Announcement of the election results of the election for the city council on September 28th, 2008  ( 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. on the Belzig website@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadt-belzig.de  
  12. ↑ Preparation Team ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Ecotopie @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecotopia2010.org
personal data
SURNAME Kat, Wam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kat, Pieter Jan Herman Fredrik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cook and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeist