Gretel Beer
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Gretel Beer (born Margaret Weidenfeld; 11 July 1921 – 11 August 2010) was an Austrian-born English author of cooking books and travel reports. She also served as a cookery writer for The Daily Telegraph[1] and Daily Express newspapers.
Biography
Beer was born in
In the spring of 1938, after the annexation of Austria by Germany, she and 48 other pupils were forced to leave this school and attend a Jewish class elsewhere in Vienna. At the entrance hall of her school, which is now called Bundesrealgymnasium Vereinsgasse, since 1989 the names of the expelled pupils are displayed on a memorial inscription.[5]
Her father managed to emigrate to England and arranged for her to leave the Third Reich with a
She worked in advertising and public relations, and after the war she was successful with her cookery books and her journalistic work, e.g. for the
Works
- Ice Cream Dishes, 1952
- Sandwiches for Parties and Picnics, 1953
- Classic Austrian Cooking, 1954
- Beer, Gretel; Davies, Paula (1977) [1974]. The Diabetic Gourmet. St Albans: Mayflower Books. OL 29376390M.
- Austrian Cooking and Baking, 1975
- Austrian Cooking (1st paperback ed.). London: OL 9714994M.
- Exploring Rural Austria. London: Helm. 1990. OL 3673112W.
- Eating Out in Austria, 1992
- A Little Hungarian Cookbook. Illustrated by Des Fox. Belfast: Appletree Books. 1993. )
- The QE2 Cook Book. London: OL 3673114W.
- Austria
- The Sunday Express Cookbook
- Wieden (Polish for Vienna), by Fred Mawer, Gretel Beer, Deirdre Coffey, Rosemary Bircz, Caroline Bugler; Hachette Polska, Warsaw, 2009
References
- ^ a b Obituary, The Telegraph, 1 Sep 2010
- ^ "Website A Letter to the Stars, list of victims". Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ Lehmann's Allgemeiner Wohnungsanzeiger, Vienna, 1937, vol. 1, p. 1255 (= p. 1283), on the website of Wienbibliothek im Rathaus (Municipal Library, Vienna City Hall)
- ^ Zeit.Geschichte. Die Porzellangassenbuben. Ari Rath und Eric Pleskow im Gespräch, ORF III, produced in 2011, TV broadcast on 5 May 2012
- ^ "Herbert Exenberger: Jüdisches Gedenken in Wien, Vienna, 2000, on the website of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance". Archived from the original on 6 August 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2012.