Attila Hildmann

Attila Hildmann cooking on Veggie Street Day in Dortmund in 2010

Attila Klaus Peter[1] Hildmann (born 22 April 1981, Berlin) is a German culinary author. His focus is in vegan recipes.

Life

Hildmann is of Turkish origin and grew up with German adoptive parents. He became a vegan after his adoptive father died of a heart attack in 2000.[2] Hildmann personally attributed his adoptive fathers' untimely death to excessive meat consumption, with consequent high cholesterol. He first renounced meat and fish products, effectively becoming a vegetarian. He also began to play sports. After some time, he renounced almost all animal products (with exceptions such as leather[3]), and began to eat mostly vegan products.

In 2009, he wrote his first vegan cookbook. His book Vegan for Fun was awarded vegan cookbook of the year by the Vegetarian Union of Germany in 2012.[4] He appeared in multiple television appearances and various TV magazines, with such people as Maischberger, an assistant for Katrin Bauernfeind, TV total, Nachtcafé, and the WDR broadcast of daheim + unterwegs. Hildmann studied physics at the Free University of Berlin.[5]

In 2015, he commented on the refugee crisis in Europe, stating: "Integration in Germany is a sensitive issue because of the German past, resulting in a current self-mutilation of German values and culture." The Zündfunk saw this statement in the context of a "symbiosis of right-wing extremism with boundless love for animals."[6]

In March 2016, he took part of the television program Let's Dance.[7] Hildmann lives in Berlin.[8]

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