Christian Schneider

Born in Vienna, Austria, Christian is a "Magister" in German Literature/Language and History, and speaks, besides English, Romanian. He has written numerous tobacco reviews for the Viennese Pipe Club, of which he is a member. Christian has been "unofficially" with the PCoLeb for a couple of years already: a contributor to our journal, Christian has also translated the PCoLeb's "Tobacco Sampling Sheet" into German. In 2007, he generously welcomed Paul Jahshan and his family on their trip to Austria. An ex-smoker of cigarettes, Christian quit them when he found out that pipesmoking was his real passion. A collector of Macintosh and assorted computers, and a fervent web surfer, he is in love with all of his 40+ pipes, but has a special liking to an Austrian hand-made Prammer pipe. His preferences are for aromatics and light English mixtures, and preferably smokes Mayflower Nr. 1 and VCPÖ Selection Nr. 1, only available in Austria.