boot camp for Wine Queen candidates

Prior to the election of the 62. German Wine Queen, the German Wine Institute (Deutsches Weininstitut, DWI) invited the candidates from all 13 German wine-growing regions to a three-day preparation seminar in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. The finals will be broadcasted by TV on october 8th 2010.
 
All regions are sending their local wine queen in as a candidate in the competition for the highest German wine crown. Some of the candidates attended a large wine-show last week (see gallery), prior to the election.

The focus of the wine institute's preparation seminar is a camera and rhetoric training, executed by experienced PR-experts, and through which the young ladies are prepared for their on-stage moments in front of thousands of people in the "Neustadt Saalbau". A style consultation and photo shoot was also part of the program.

The public tv station SWR also informed the girls about how the election will take place and Sonja Christ, who is the current German Wine Queen from the Mosel-region, gave useful hints for the upcoming election. Holger Wienpahl, who will be the live-presenter of the pre-competition and the final, also got to know the female candidates while drinking a glass of wine with all of them.

The mood among the competitors was superb. They are all looking forward to the semi-finals in the Saalbau of Neustadt on Saturday, October 2nd 2010, which will be broadcasted the next day at 2 PM on the SWR tv channel. The finals will take place on Friday, October 8th 2010, at 08:15 PM in the same place and will be broadcast at 10 PM, also via SWR. Additionally, a live-ticker on www.deutscheweinkoenigin.de will keep online-users informed during the finals.

See online-gallery of all German Wine Queens since 1949.