Alexander Herrmann (cook)

Alexander Herrmann during the recording of the program Die Küchenschlacht (July 2008)

Alexander Karl Rudolf Herrmann (born June 7, 1971 in Kulmbach ) is a German chef , restaurateur , television chef and cookbook author .

Life

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Interview with Alexander Herrmann at Bayern 1

Alexander Herrmann grew up in a hotelier family in Wirsberg . He lost his parents in a car accident at the age of nine, and in 1981 his uncle and aunt took over the management of the family hotel.

Herrmann attended the hotel management school Bavaria Altötting , followed by an apprenticeship as a cook in Nuremberg and internships in Belgium and Germany. Herrmann passed the master chef examination as the best of his year with distinction from the Bavarian State Government. In 1995 Herrmann joined Herrmann's Romantik Posthotel in Wirsberg in the Franconian Forest as head chef , which has been in the family since 1869. In 1997 he was accepted into the group of Jeunes Restaurateurs d'Europe Section Germany, of which he was President from 2007 to 2010. His hotel has a Michelin-starred restaurant, a bistro and a cooking school.

He has been running the Alexander Herrmann Palazzo in Nuremberg since 2009. He worked as a cook a. a. TV advertising for various products. In 2017 he opened two restaurants in Nuremberg , the Imperial by Alexander Herrmann and the Fränk'ness on the ground floor of the same building .

Alexander Herrmann is married in second marriage and living separately. He is the father of two children from his first marriage to Eva Herrmann.

Awards

The restaurant Alexander Herrmann by Tobias Bätz has been awarded one Michelin star by the Michelin Guide since 2008, and two Michelin stars since 2019. The Gault Millau gave the restaurant 17 out of 20 points. The Alexander Herrmann culinary school was named culinary school of the year 2011 by Gault Millau .

TV chef and presenter

• 1997–2004: Regular crew of the weekly show Kochduell , VOX
• 2003–2006: Own show Koch , BR television
• 2006: Moderator and cook for Olympia al dente , Das Erste
• 2006–2008: regular crew at Kerners Köche , ZDF
• 2007–2013: Moderator and juror at Die Küchenschlacht , ZDF
• 2008–2012: regular crew at Lanz cooks! , ZDF
• Since 2013: juror and coach in the cooking show The Taste , Sat.1
• 2014–2015: Moderator of the pot money hunters , ZDF
• Since 2015: Own show Aufgegabelt , BR Fernsehen
• 2016: Participant in the program Kitchen Impossible , VOX, as an opponent of Tim Mälzer
• 2016: Moderator of the show Battle of the Cooks , Sat.1
• 2016: Participants in the show Do you understand fun? , The first
• 2016 - 2019: Chef in the program Stadt Land Lecker , ZDF
• 2019: Moderator of the show Bavaria's best jokes , BR television

Radio chef

• 2004–2016: Every Thursday own cooking show on Bayern 1
• Since 2017: Every Saturday at The Long Saturday at Bayern 1 - Clever cooking , tips & tricks with star chef Alexander Herrmann

Works (selection)

• Cook it . Zabert Sandmann, Munich
  • Vol. 1, 2006, ISBN 3-89883-076-4
  • Vol. 2, 2006, ISBN 3-89883-132-9
  • Vol. 3, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89883-160-4
• Kitchens IQ : Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich
  • Vol. 1: Basis, 2010, ISBN 978-389910473-8
  • Vol. 2: Menu, 2011, ISBN 978-389910484-4
  • Vol. 3: Occasion, 2012, ISBN 978-389910485-1
• Taste secrets : DK Verlag, Munich
  • 2016, ISBN 978-3-8310-3151-1

• "Quickly something good": DK Verklag, Munich
  • 2018, ISBN 978-3-8310-3450-5

Web links

Commons : Alexander Herrmann  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Own web presence
• Literature by and about Alexander Herrmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alexander Herrmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Alexander Herrmann in the restaurant rankings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gabi Fischer: Alexander Herrmann - Why his grandma is so important to him . In: br.de . January 31, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019.
2. ↑ Celebrity chef Alexander Herrmann: SHE is his new girlfriend. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Alexander Herrmann by Tobias Bätz in the Guide Michelin 2019. Accessed on February 28, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Bayern 1-star chef Alexander Herrmann: Cooking clever! | BR.de . August 2, 2016 ( br.de [accessed April 13, 2017]).