Wolfram Siebeck

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Wolfram Siebeck (born September 19, 1928 in Duisburg ; † July 7, 2016 in Lahr / Black Forest ) was a German gastronomy critic , journalist and author .

Life

Siebeck was the son of the administrative officer and later landlord Walter Siebeck. He grew up in Essen and Bochum . At the end of the war in 1945 he worked as an anti-aircraft helper in northern Germany , where he was taken prisoner. The British army interned him on the island of Fehmarn for a few months .

In the first years of the post-war period Siebeck earned his living by painting advertising signs. When the WAZ was founded in 1948 at the same time as the currency reform , Siebeck got a job there as a press draftsman . He later worked with his friend Roland Topor . Due to a small inheritance, Siebeck was able to attend the Werkkunstschule in Wuppertal from 1950 . His first trip to France also took place at this time . When Willy Fleckhaus founded the magazine Twen in Cologne in 1958 , Siebeck got a culinary column in it. Joseph Wechsberg was a role model for him.

From the early 1970s he also wrote a monthly column for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and the magazines Stern and Der Feinschmecker . He also published repeatedly as a restaurant critic . Until 2011 he wrote a weekly column in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit (in the rotogravure supplement ZeitMagazin Leben ).

From 2011 onwards, his Zeit articles appeared less frequently. Siebeck then wrote the blog Wo is (s) t Siebeck - a travel diary until 2015 .

Private life

Siebeck was from 1959 to 1969 with his first wife Erika and since 1969 in his second marriage to Barbara McBride geb. Wilke married. She brought three sons from her first marriage to photographer Will McBride .

In 1969 the family settled in Widdersberg am Ammersee. From here, Barbara and Wolfram Siebeck started their first “culinary journeys”, especially to France. In the early 1980s the family moved to Schondorf .

Since the late 1980s, Wolfram Siebeck lived with his wife Barbara at the “Schloss Mahlberg ” castle near Lahr . Wolfram and Barbara Siebeck spent the summer in Puy-Saint-Martin near Montélimar in Provence .

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Wolfram Siebeck's columns and his book publications had - according to their own statement - one goal: Readers should be made aware of and made aware that food and drink must be of the highest quality. Siebeck polemicized in his columns and books against fast food , ready meals , groceries from the discount stores , subsidized agriculture and unsuitable animal husbandry , poor table culture and, in his opinion, poor German cuisine. His style was satirical, sarcastic and often - intentionally - hurtful. Siebeck also did not lack self-irony and self-criticism in the essayistic articles.

In the early 1980s, Südwestfunk and Siebeck produced a twelve-part cooking program. This was suggested by the documentary filmmaker Roman Brodmann , who was also a gourmet. For each of the episodes, top chefs were invited to Siebeck's home, who cooked a menu for them - including the star chefs Marc Haeberlin , Emile Jung, Hans Stucki and Heinz Winkler . The menu was served, commented on and rated, and the professional chefs allowed themselves to be carried away with some ironic to biting criticism. The series was discontinued due to the death of Roman Brodmann.

Due to his numerous glosses in the time and in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in the 1960s and 1970s and because of his first book publications, Siebeck was then “one of the funniest glosses and story writers in the German language”. For example , in 1969 he parodied Joachim Kaiser's music reviews by viewing “Munich’s newest construction site” on “Upper Leopoldstrasse” as a cultural event. For the achievements of the participants - like Alois Stiebl with his Explosionsramme - Siebeck used the vocabulary of a music critic ("The noble, inspired, almost painful staccato that Stiebl brought out of nowhere or from a wonderful instrument was Phon in the highest purity") and by including tram noises "(line 43, train station - Kaiser Joachim-Platz)" gave a clear indication of the parody.

In 1975 Günter Herburger published the poem "To improve the feature pages", in which he expressed his rejection of Siebeck and other authors. Siebeck replied in the gloss "With a German tongue".

Honors

reception

In 1981 the Neue Deutsche Welle band Foyer Des Arts dedicated the song "Wolfram Siebeck is right!" To him with the singer and later writer and publicist Max Goldt .

TV portraits

  • 1997: Nation's taster. TV report, Germany, 30 min., Script and direction: Ralph Quinke, production: Spiegel TV , shot in his home in Provence. The television offshoot of the news magazine portrays the gourmet and gastronomy critic Wolfram Siebeck. The television team accompanies the gourmet to France and Baden and lets him philosophize about the food culture.
  • 2004: Lifelines: The kitchen guru. Wolfram Siebeck - citizen of the world and cross-border commuter. TV report, Germany, 30 min., Script and direction: Evelyn Schels , production: Bayerischer Rundfunk , shot in Mahlberg and Provence .
  • 2006: Gero von Boehm meets Wolfram Siebeck. Talk, Germany, 30 min., Script and direction: Gero von Boehm, production: interscience film, 3sat . Gero von Boehm visits Wolfram Siebeck in his home at Mahlberg Castle and talks to him about meat scandals and how you can learn good taste, about food culture in Germany and elsewhere and about his role as a mediator between guests and restaurants.

radio play

  • Ulrich Gerhardt: The Wolfram Siebeck Tapes. We're not going there anymore . Deutschlandradio Kultur. 2017.

Publications

estate

In 2008 ZEIT magazine Wolfram Siebeck described eastern Germany as a culinary no-go area. In his book Hofmenüs für heute , published in 2013 together with Josef Matzerath and Georg W. Schenk . Recipes from the Dresdner Hof. Prepared by Saxon cooks and pastry chefs, he revised his mind. In 2014 he decided to transfer his estate to the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), also because it already has an extensive base of gastrosophic literature with the Bibliotheca gastronomica of the collector Walter Putz . In 2018 the SLUB took over Siebeck's estate. Selected sound recordings that Siebeck used as notes were broadcast in a feature on Deutschlandfunk Kultur in 2020 .

literature

  • Gero von Boehm : Wolfram Siebeck. January 4, 2006 . Interview in: Encounters. Images of man from three decades . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89910-443-1 , pp. 469-476.

Trivia

For many years Siebeck published a Christmas menu in Die Zeit . In 1997 a recipe mistake happened: The lemon mousse - cooked by many readers - was inedibly sour in the specified quantities.

Web links

Wikiquote: Wolfram Siebeck  - Quotes

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b zeit.de: Wolfram is alive!
  2. ↑ Wo is (s) t Siebeck - Willkommen , accessed on July 8, 2016.
  3. ^ A b Christoph Amend , Adam Sobozynski: Siebeck is 80: "I am arrogant!" In: Zeit Online . September 24, 2008, accessed on July 8, 2016 (interview with Wolfram Siebeck; first in: Die Zeit No. 39 of September 18, 2008).
  4. ↑ Ulrike Schumacher: Half a life in front of the plate . In: Weser-Kurier , July 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Ruf: Feinschmecker Siebeck is now feasting on the net. In: Reutlinger Generalanzeiger , June 4, 2012.
  6. ↑ a b Siebeck, Wolfram. In: Munzinger Online / People - International Biographical Archive. 34/2006 of August 26, 2006. Supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 05/2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Lechner : “Send Siebeck to Mars!” In: Die Zeit , September 17, 2008.
  8. ↑ publisher information in flap closed - monkey dead . dtv, Munich, 1978, p. 4.
  9. ^ Wolfram Siebeck: Musica viva. In: Die Zeit , January 17, 1969.
  10. ↑ zeit.de: With a German tongue
  11. ↑ Citizens of the world and cross-border commuters - Citoyen du monde: The kitchen guru Wolfram Siebeck. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk , arte . May 2004, archived from the original on May 3, 2007 ; Retrieved July 8, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Gero von Boehm meets… Wolfram Siebeck. ( Memento of July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: interscience film / 3sat , January 16, 2006.
  13. ↑ swr.de: The Wolfram Siebeck Tapes. We're not going there anymore
  14. ^ The estate of gastronomy critic Wolfram Siebeck in Dresden. In: welt.de. July 5, 2018, accessed July 10, 2018 .
  15. ↑ SLUB Dresden: Estate of gourmet icon Wolfram Siebeck in SLUB Dresden . ( slub-dresden.de [accessed on July 12, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Long night about Wolfram Siebeck's gourmet travels - preferably French. Retrieved on May 24, 2020 (German).
  17. ^ Zeit.de: Fee Zschocke on Siebeck
personal data
SURNAME Siebeck, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, book author and gastronomy critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2016
Place of death Lahr / Black Forest