She Chef — We Chef?

As part of our Digifonds project on film in vocational education, a film screening for students from the hospitality and tourism sectors took place at Stadtkino Wien on 1 February.

Around 250 students and 30 teachers from voca­tio­nal schools for the hos­pi­ta­li­ty industry and voca­tio­nal colleges with a focus on tourism watched the docu­men­ta­ry “She Chef” in the packed Stadtkino cinema. The film takes viewers into the world of top-class gastro­no­my and follows Austrian world champion chef Agnes Karrasch on her years of training and tra­vel­ling through Germany, Spain and the Faroe Islands. The audience received the film enthu­sia­sti­cal­ly and in the sub­se­quent dis­cus­sion with the prot­ago­nist Karrasch discussed careers in the hos­pi­ta­li­ty industry, chal­lenges in everyday working life and training, high demands in often difficult working con­di­ti­ons and, last but not least, her role as a woman in a male-dominated field.

The film screening took place as part of the Berufsehre.Lehre.tv project financed by the Digifonds of the Vienna Chamber of Labour, where we are working together with the Vienna University of Teacher Education (PH Wien) and the Austrian Institute for Educational Research (öibf) on the topics of film, work and political education. We are delighted with the positive response to this event and promise more similar events in the future.