Arabelle Stieg becomes editor-in-chief of ESSEN & TRINKEN

Editor-in-chief Arabelle Stieg will take over as editor-in-chief of the renowned food and drink magazine ESSEN & TRINKEN on 1 November 2025. With her keen sense for culinary trends, editorial quality and the needs of readers, she has had a decisive influence on the magazine in recent years. Now it's time for the next step.

Malte Schwerdtfeger, Managing Director of Landwirtschaftsverlag and Deutsche Medien-Manufaktur: 'Arabelle Stieg leads ESSEN & TRINKEN with great passion, competence and a special team spirit. I look forward to continuing to work with her. ESSEN & TRINKEN is one of the country's outstanding traditional publishing brands, and we still have many ideas for consistently developing the brand further in the coming years.'

Editor-in-chief Arabelle Stieg: 'ESSEN & TRINKEN is my journalistic home. With expertise and attention to detail, we develop new and surprising recipes every month. Our promise: with us, anyone can cook really well. We want to inspire, impart knowledge in a playful way and celebrate good food. Together with my team, I look forward to continuing to work on this every day.'

Arabelle Stieg, who studied English and German language and literature, joined ESSEN & TRINKEN as head of copywriting in 2005. In 2015, she took over as editor-in-chief.

ESSEN & TRINKEN, founded more than 50 years ago, is the mother of all food magazines in Germany. With its in-depth culinary expertise, high-quality images and innovative recipe ideas, the magazine reaches more than 1 million readers every month. ESSEN & TRINKEN is published by Deutsche Medien-Manufaktur, a subsidiary of Landwirtschaftsverlag Münster.

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ESSEN & TRINKEN contains delicious recipes for every occasion – because there is hardly a better way to express affection and appreciation than with a delicious meal or a fragrant cake on the table. Reports, background information on food and food trends round off the content of each issue. Our magazine has been one of the largest food magazines on the market for more than 50 years.

About Landwirtschaftsverlag and Deutsche Medien-Manufaktur
With its media and service offerings in the fields of agriculture, food and rural life, the Landwirtschaftsverlag Münster group of companies is one of Germany's ten highest-grossing specialist publishers and one of the 100 largest German media companies, with total sales of over €130 million.
The group employs more than 900 people in Münster and at its other locations in Germany, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands.

ESSEN & TRINKEN is published by Deutsche Medien-Manufaktur (DMM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Landwirtschaftsverlag Münster. DMM owns the brands LANDLUST, ESSEN & TRINKEN, LIVING AT HOME, FLOW, LANDLUST EINFACH HAUSGEMACHT, LANDLUST ZUHAUS, ESSEN & TRINKEN LOW CARB, GARTENFLORA and GRÜN.

Press contact:
Malte Schwerdtfeger
Managing director
Malte.Schwerdtfeger@lv.de
Tel. +49 2501 801 1650
Hülsebrockstr. 2–8, 48165 Münster