Christian Rach

Christian Rach, 2012

Christian Rach (born June 6, 1957 in St. Ingbert , Saarland ) is a German chef , television chef and cookbook author . He became known nationwide through the RTL show Rach, the restaurant tester .

Life

Rach & Ritchy in Hamburg

Rach grew up in St. Ingbert, his father was an electrical engineer, his mother a housewife. After graduating from high school , he studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Hamburg from 1978 to 1983 . During his studies, Christian Rach initially worked as a waiter, but soon discovered his passion for cooking and from then on financed his studies as a cook, for example in 1982 and 1983 in the Strandhof with Uwe Witzke. He left the university shortly before the exam without a degree because he wanted to take the opportunity to work in a French restaurant. From 1983 he worked first with Philippe Boissou in Grenoble and then in 1984 as a sous- chef in the Korso in Vienna , where he gained insights into creative, classic cuisine.

Back in Hamburg, he opened the inner-city restaurant Leopold in Altona in 1986 and, in 1989, together with Robert Wullkopf, in a former truck driver's bar, the Tafelhaus near the Altona harbor in Hamburg. The table house in an old cemetery house in the Hamburg district of Ottensen has received a Michelin star and other awards every year since 1991 . From 2001 the Cantina Milano , which was attached to the Tafelhaus, was also headed by Christian Rach. The Tafelhaus has been closed since September 30, 2011.

From 1997 to November 2007, Rach also ran the Engel restaurant in Hamburg with the Lucifer snack bar and brought both of them to their current level of awareness. In 2001 he opened Darling Harbor , which, however, had to close in 2004 because, according to Rachs own assessment, among other things, the modern concept was not accepted.

In 2009 he and a partner took over the gourmet restaurant Das kleine Rote in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld and changed the concept to a “luxury steak house” with the name Rach & Ritchy .

Christian Rach is a volunteer ambassador for the Central Germany Children's Hospice and is committed to terminally ill children and their families. In cooperation with WWF Germany , Christian Rach campaigns against food waste.

Rach lives in Hamburg.

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Rach was 2005 in RTL telecast devil cuisine represented, where he headed a kitchen crew of celebrities.

In the same year, the television program Rach, the restaurant tester, started , in which he gave restaurants assistance in the kitchen and corporate management until 2013. In 2010 he had a cameo in his role as a restaurant tester in the TV film CIS - Chaoten im Special . From August 30 to October 18, 2010, RTL broadcast the first season of Rachs Restaurant School . Between April 16 and May 21, 2012 RTL broadcast the second season of this series. In June 2013 RTL started a new documentary series Rachdeckt auf .

Christian Rach switched to ZDF in early 2014 . His show Rach tables auf was discontinued after four shows due to poor audience ratings. In 2015, Rach was featured in a three-part Terra X documentary on the topic of the cultural history of food. The ZDF series Rach and the Restaurant Founders also ran in 2015 . The audience ratings were subdued.

In 2015 he returned to RTL. The first broadcasts after leaving ZDF ran undercover in September and October 2015 under the title Rach . In April 2016, he started another program, Rach sucht: Germany's Favorite Restaurant , where the chef visits several restaurants with national and international food offers in six episodes in order to test and evaluate various properties, such as service and food. From March to April 2017 new episodes of Rach, the restaurant tester were broadcast. In August 2017 it was announced that no further new episodes of Rach, the restaurant tester are planned.

In 2019 he became a new jury member alongside Reiner Calmund and Mirja Boes in the new edition of the VOX cooking show Grill den Henssler .

Awards

• 1 star in the Michelin Guide
• 16 points in Gault-Millau
• 3.5 F in Feinschmecker
• 3 toques in the Bertelsmann Guide
• 4 spoons in the Schlemmer Atlas
• Varta tip in the Varta guide
• Bavarian TV Prize 2009 for Rach, the restaurant tester (RTL)
• Golden Camera 2010 for Rach, the restaurant tester (RTL)
• German Television Award 2010 - Best Documentation for Rach, the Restaurant Tester and Rachs Restaurant School
• Media Prize of the German Medium-Sized Businesses 2010, awarded by the markt intern publishing group

Book publications

• The Cooking Code. The basic rules of successful cooking . Edel, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-941378-03-2 .
• The guest book. Cooking for special occasions . Edel, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941378-29-2 .
• Rach is boiling. Morning, noon, evening - pleasurable and healthy . Edel, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941378-88-9 .
• Better: eat better! . Edel, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8419-0135-4 .

Web links

Commons : Christian Rach  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Christian Rach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christian Rach in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Homepage of Christian Rach
• Barbara Supp, Alfred Freeman: Mirror conversation: The applause of the plate. In: Spiegel Online . May 4, 2009 (interview with Christian Rach). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nadine Bös: In a touch of madness. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 18, 2011, accessed October 6, 2016 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Sarah Levy: Christian Rach: "Greed eats the brain" . In: The time . August 20, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed August 20, 2016]).
3. ↑ Rach no longer wants to be at the stove. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . October 1, 2011, accessed September 25, 2013 (last sentence). 
4. ↑ Thank you very much! tafelhaus.de , 2011, accessed on September 25, 2013 (farewell message on the Tafelhaus homepage ). 
5. ↑ “Darling Harbor” third pillar for Christian Rach. (No longer available online.) In: AHGZ . November 3, 2001, archived from the original on May 22, 2011 ; Retrieved September 22, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Christian Rach closes “Darling Harbor”. In: AHGZ . January 31, 2004, accessed September 22, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Rach will soon be sizzling luxury steaks here. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . June 5, 2009, accessed September 25, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Christian Rach and the WWF: Together against food waste. From: WWF , accessed June 8, 2015
9. ↑ Deborah Knür: On the hunt for quotas in the devil's kitchen. In: The world . March 12, 2005, accessed September 25, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Alexander Krei: "Rach reveals:" A TV chef on a world tour. In: DWDL.de . June 18, 2013, accessed September 25, 2013 . 
11. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: The “convicting man” - Christian Rach changes to ZDF. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 15, 2013, accessed September 25, 2013 . 
12. ^ Matthias Kohlmaier: Fad in the finish. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 21, 2014, accessed February 22, 2014 . 
13. ↑ After bad ratings on ZDF: TV chef Christian Rach returns to RTL!
14. ↑ DWDL.de TV review on the “History of Food”: Christian Rach on “Terra X”: cereal porridge from the star chef
15. ↑ Christian Rach - "History of Eating". In: essen-und-trinken.de , March 31, 2015
16. ^ "Rach and the restaurant founders": Bad start for Christian Rach . In: stern.de , May 27, 2015
17. ↑ ^{a b} After an unsuccessful ZDF guest performance: Rach returns to RTL . In: Meedia , June 15, 2015
18. ↑ Rach undercover is a predictable Kochretter show. In: DerWesten.de , September 15, 2015
19. ↑ The newcomers to "Grill den Henssler". Retrieved May 5, 2019 .