Attila Hildmann

Attila Klaus-Peter Hildmann (born 22 April 1981, Berlin) is a German cookbook author. His specialty is vegan recipes.

Hildmann is of Turkish ancestry and was raised by German adoptive parents. He lives in Berlin, where he studied for an advanced degree in physics at the Free University of Berlin.

Hildmann first turned to vegetarianism after witnessing his adoptive father drop dead of a heart attack while on a ski trip in 2000. He attributed his father's untimely death to excessive meat consumption, with consequent high cholesterol, and he himself suffered from obesity as a young man. He renounced meat and fish products, and began to exercise regularly, dropping 35 kilos. Over time, he renounced almost all animal products (with exceptions, e.g. leather) and became primarily vegan.

In 2009, Hildmann wrote his first vegan cookbook. In 2012, his Vegan for Fun was named cookbook of the year by the Vegetarierbund Deutschland, the German branch of the International Vegetarian Union.

Hildmann appears in YouTube videos and has been featured in numerous television programs and talk shows, including Maischberger, TV total, the ZDF's Volle Kanne, the SWR's Nachtcafé, and the WDR's daheim + unterwegs. In March 2016, he was a contestant in the TV show Let's Dance.

In 2015, he commented on the European migrant crisis, stating: "Integration in Germany is a sensitive issue because of the German past, resulting in a current self-mutilation of German values and culture." This remark was criticized on a BR public radio broadcast as a "symbiosis of right-wing extremism with boundless love for animals."

in April 2017, Hildmann participated on the TV show Schlag den Star against Luke Mockridge.

• Attila Hildmann (2009) (in German), Vegan-Kochbuch. Cholesterinbewusst, laktosefrei und klimafreundlich kochen, Vol. 1, Aachen: Shaker Media, ISBN 978-3-86858-217-8 
• Attila Hildmann (2009) (in German), Vegan-Kochbuch. Cholesterinbewusst, laktosefrei und klimafreundlich kochen, Vol. 2, Aachen: Shaker Media, ISBN 978-3-86858-502-5 
• Attila Hildmann (2010) (in German), Vegan-Kochbuch. Cholesterinbewusst, laktosefrei und klimafreundlich kochen, Vol. 3,  Norderstedt: Books on Demand, ISBN 978-3-8423-3835-7.
• Attila Hildmann (2011) (in German), Vegan for Fun. Vegane Küche die Spaß macht, Hilden,  Becker Joest Volk Verlag, ISBN 978-3-938100-71-4.
• Attila Hildmann (2012) (in German), Vegan for Fit. Attila Hildmanns 30-Tage-Challenge. Vegetarisch und cholesterinfrei zu einem neuen Körpergefühl, Hilden: Becker Joest Volk Verlag, ISBN 978-3-938100-81-3 
• Attila Hildmann (2013) (in German), Vegan for Youth. Die Attila Hildmann Triät. Schlanker, gesünder und messbar jünger in 60 Tagen, Hilden: Becker Joest Volk Verlag, ISBN 978-3-938100-91-2 
• Attila Hildmann (2014) (in German), Vegan to Go. Schnell, einfach, lecker, Hilden: Becker Joest Volk Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95453-101-1 
• Attila Hildmann (2015) (in German), Vegan for Starters. Die einfachsten und beliebtesten Rezepte aus vier Kochbüchern, Hilden, Beck Joest Volk Verlag, ISBN 978-3-954530-93-9
• Attila Hildmann (2015) (in German), Vegan Italian Style. Moderne italienische Küche, Hilden, Becker Joest Volk Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95453-111-0.
• Attila Hildmann (2016) (in German), Vegan Smoothies, Shakes, and Ice Cream - Green Smoothies und Superfoods in ihrer leckersten Form aus der Bestsellerküche von Attila Hildmann, Hilden, Becker Joest Volk Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95453-121-9.
• Attila Hildmann (2016) (in German), Vegan for Fit Gipfelstürmer - Die 7-Tage-Detox-Diät, Hilden, Becker Joest Volk Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95453-131-8.