Gretel Beer

Gretel Beer ( born July 11, 1921 in Vienna as Margaret Weidenfeld; † August 11, 2010 in Deal, England) spent her youth in Austria and was known after their forced exile by the Nazi regime in England author of cookbooks and travel reports. You acted as a Women's Page editor of the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

Beer was born in the Jewish Viennese family Weidenfeld. It was especially by her aunt Olga Springer ( Bechyně, Bohemia 1879-1942 extermination camp Maly Trostinez ) educated. That of a doctor, in 1937 in Vienna's 9th district, Porzellangasse 45, lived ) widow, jumped, because Gretel's mother Regina Pisk died when Margaret was five years old, and because her father, Duny Weidenfeld, no household led. ( At the Porzellangasse spent until 1938 Eric Pleskow and Ari Rath her ​​childhood, as they communicated in an ORF television program 2011/2012. )

After attending elementary school in Lower Austria Marchegg on the eastern border of the country she visited the Federal Realschule Vereinsgasse, a higher educational institution in Vienna's 2nd district, where many Jewish Viennese lived. In early 1938 she had to leave due to their Jewish origins to school and attend a class Jews elsewhere in Vienna with 48 other students. In the entrance hall of the present Federal Grammar School Vereinsgasse since 1989 a plaque commemorating the expulsion of pupils.

Gretel's father, who had made ​​it to London, reached there that they could leave the Third Reich in 1939 with a children's transport, which was organized by British NGOs. In March 1939, she arrived in Harwich and first worked in various professions. In 1943 she married the former Viennese lawyer Dr. Johann Beer, his law firm in 1937 in the 9th district, Porzellangasse 8 had. Hans Beer could work later as a British lawyer; the couple lived then in an apartment in Gray 's Inn, the Quartier an English Bar Association in London, and in a country house in Deal (Kent ) on the British Channel coast.

Gretel Beer worked in advertising and public relations. After the Second World War it was successful cookbooks and through her ​​journalistic work, mainly for the Daily Telegraph and the English edition of the fashion magazine Vogue. They now traveled at least once a year after Austria and preserved the typical Viennese German. Hans Beer died in 1981 in a cottage in Deal, when he sitting in a wheelchair, an erupting fire could not escape.

Own works

  • Ice Cream Dishes, 1952
  • Sandwiches for Parties and Picnics 1953
  • Classic Austrian Cooking, 1954
  • The Diabetic Gourmet, 1974 ( German: Fine Checker kitchen for diabetics)
  • Austrian Cooking and Baking, 1975
  • Exploring Rural Austria, 1990
  • Eating Out in Austria, 1992
  • A Little Hungarian Cookbook, 1993
  • The QE2 Cookbook, 1999
  • Austria
  • Austrian Cooking
  • The Sunday Express Cookbook
  • Wieden ( = Vienna in Polish), by Fred Mawer, Gretel Beer, Deirdre Coffey, Rosemary Bircz, Caroline Bugler; Hachette Polska, Warsaw 2009
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