Jörg Wörther

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Jörg Wörther (born July 8, 1958 in Bad Gastein ; † July 15, 2020 ) was an Austrian chef .

Life

Jörg Wörther completed his apprenticeship in the formerly sophisticated, now defunct Grand Hotel Gasteinerhof in his home town and then went to Munich, where he worked at the Hotel Sheraton and in his free time as a volunteer in the Tantris restaurant . After his time in Josef Viehhauser's Le Canard restaurant in Hamburg, his next job again took him to Bavaria for three years, to the Aubergine restaurant in Munich , headed by Eckart Witzigmann .

After returning to Badgastein, he worked as head chef at the reopened Grand Hotel de l'Europe from 1982 , before running the restaurant Vinothek (two toques) in the Villa Solitude as a freelance restaurateur from 1984 . In December 1987 he opened the Villa Hiss in his home town and ran it for seven years, with his business being awarded three toques by Gault Millau annually from 1989 .

In 1990 Christian Millau , Joël Robuchon and Michael Reinartz personally named him Austrian Chef of the Decade on the occasion of a cooking competition in the Haas-Haus in Vienna . In 1995 Wörther leased the Hotel Schloss Prielau in Zell am See and set up his restaurant Jörg Wörther in it , which was awarded four toques every year from 1997 until its closure in autumn 2003 and was one of the best four restaurants in Austria.

In 2001, Wörther designed a knife series for CHROMA together with the designer FA Porsche . In 2004 he took over the patronage of the Winterstellgut in Annaberg , Dietrich Mateschitz's estate , where he cooked himself for the first few weeks. In August 2005 he opened the Carpe Diem Finest Fingerfood in Salzburg's Getreidegasse in collaboration with Mateschitz , from which he left again in August 2007. In May 2014, he and Manfred Dietrichsteiner opened the Ceconi’s restaurant in Salzburg, which he closed again in mid-2015.

Jörg Wörther was married and lived in Elsbethen -Glasenbach near Salzburg. He died on July 15, 2020 at the age of 62 after a lengthy illness.

consultation

Wörther and his company Primetaste advised gastronomic projects:

  • 2009: K & K Seminar Hotel Geras, Geras.
  • 2010: The Schwarzacher, Saalbach / Hinterglemm.
  • 2011: Hotel Restaurant Häupl, Seewalchen / Attersee.
  • 2012: Concept for Johann Lafer's “Austria Bistro”.

Awards

  • 1990: First Austrian "Chef of the Decade" ( Gault Millau )
  • 1999: "Chef of the year 1999 in Austria" (Gault Millau, Agrana)
  • 1999: "Chef of the Month" (Wolfram Siebeck, "Der Feinschmecker")
  • 2001: "Golden Roulette Ball" (Gault Millau, Casinos Austria)
  • 2002: "Restaurant Jörg Wörther" named Austria's best restaurant ("Die Bunte" magazine)
  • 2004: “Trophée Gourmet” for his life's work and his gastronomic achievements in the “Star cuisine” sector (Guide A la Carte)
  • 2014: “Tafelspitz Lebenswerk” by the Kurier-Freizeit editorial team
  • 2020: "Lifetime Achievement 2020" of the Eat-Berlin Festival

Cookbooks

  • Wörtherbuch: About crayfish, potato gnocchi, Hollersavarin & other delicacies of Austrian cuisine . Haymon Verlag 1998.
  • Der Wörther: cooking with pleasure / With an introductory essay and six gastrosophic interjections by Christoph Wagner. Lower Austrian Press House , St. Pölten 2005. ISBN 3-85326-372-0 .
  • Austro tapas: cleverly simple recipes / together with Toni Mörwald and Christoph Wagner . Loewenzahn Verlag 2009.
  • Austro-Grill: Cleverly simple recipes / together with Toni Mörwald and Renate Wagner-Wittula, Löwenzahn Verlag 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Wörther: “Cook of the decade” died , krone.at, published and accessed on July 15, 2020.
  2. ↑ diepresse.com: Jörg Wörther closes his restaurant Ceconi's
  3. ↑ mr: Celebrity chef Jörg Wörther (62) is dead. Retrieved on July 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Japheth Kohl: Lifetime Achievement. In: eat! Berlin. Retrieved on July 15, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Wörther, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian toque chef
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Gastein
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 2020