Dieter Müller (cook)

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Dieter Müller (born July 28, 1948 in Auggen ) is a German chef whose restaurant was awarded three Michelin stars from 1997 to 2008 . Mediterranean, French and Asian influences combine in his cooking style.

biography

Dieter Müller comes from a family of restaurateurs, his older brother Jörg Müller is also a chef. Dieter Müller completed his cooking apprenticeship with distinction in 1966 and then worked for two years in his parents' company "Lug ins Land" in Raich in the southern Black Forest until he was called up to serve in the Bundeswehr . After six months of service, he has already received an award for the best Bundeswehr kitchen.

After military service he developed his skills at the Hotel Schweizerhof of Ernesto Schlegel in Bern until he after a stopover on Corfu in 1973 the team of his brother in the Schweizer Stuben in Wertheim-Bettingen met, the 1981-1983 and Hans Stefan Steinheuer belonged as Sous Chef . He received his first Michelin star back in 1974 and has been a certified master chef since 1976. In 1977 the restaurant was awarded two Michelin stars.

In 1983 Jörg Müller went to Sylt; Dieter Müller held the two Michelin stars. In 1988 he published his first book Das Dieter Müller Kochbuch , which was awarded the gold medal of the German Gastronomic Academy the following year . From 1990 to 1992 he cooked in Japan, Australia, USA, France and Thailand, among others.

From February 1992 to February 2008 he was head chef and patron of the gourmet restaurant Dieter Müller in the Schlosshotel Lerbach in Bergisch Gladbach , which was awarded one Michelin star in 1992, two in 1994 and three in 1997; after Herbert Schönberner and Helmut Thieltges, he was the third German whose restaurant received this award. Since 2005 he has also run a cooking school here. In July 2005 he was the first German chef to christen a rose in his name. In February 2008 he handed over the kitchen management of his restaurant to Nils Henkel . In December 2009, Müller left the Schlosshotel Lerbach.

In September 2010 he opened a restaurant on the cruise ship Europa , where he is on board 70 days a year. Since 2011 he has been President of Chef of the Year , a competition for professional chefs from Germany, Austria , Switzerland and South Tyrol . The preselection of the cooking competition takes place in different cities and the final every two years during Anuga in autumn.

Since the end of 2018, Müller has been the driving force behind a new restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton in Berlin . In February 2019 it was announced that the cooperation with HL Cruises will end in October 2019 and that Dieter Müller's restaurant on the MS Europa will close.

Private life

Dieter Müller has three children with his wife Birgit. His wife managed the service of his restaurant in the Schlosshotel Lerbach. The couple live in Odenthal .

Awards

Müller's culinary art has brought him numerous awards. He was “Cook of the Year” by the Gault-Millau restaurant guide in 1987 and the gourmet magazine Der Feinschmecker in 1998.

His restaurant has had three Michelin stars since 1997 , and Gault-Millau awarded it 19.5 points. In 2004 the Feinschmecker rated his restaurant as “perfect in every way”.

He was the first German to receive the Prix ​​la Mazille International cookbook prize for his cookbook, Secrets from My Three-Star Kitchen , published in 2000. In 2003 he received the highest gastronomic award in the USA, the Five Star Diamond Award .

In 2009 he received the Eckart Witzigmann Prize of the German Academy for Culinary Studies for his life's work.

Publications

  • Dieter Müller. Rolf Heyne Collection, Munich 2005, hardback, 392 pages, ISBN 978-3-89910-213-0 , cookbook.
  • with Nils Henkel: Dieter Müller - Simple and ingenious. Recipes from the master's cooking school. Neuer Umschau Buchverlag, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2006, 200 pages, numerous. color illus., bound, ISBN 978-3-86528-262-0 , cookbook.
  • with Nils Henkel: Bergisches Land. Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86615-551-0 , cookbook.
  • with Natalie Quagliata: Eating - vitality and joie de vivre with pleasure. Neuer Umschau Buchverlag, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2009, 160 p., Numer. color illus., bound, ISBN 978-3-86528-641-3 , cookbook.
  • How Germany learned to enjoy. Lingen Verlag, Cologne 2014, 220 pp., Numerous. color illus., bound, ISBN 978-3-942453-95-0 , autobiography with numerous recipes.

Movies

  • Three stars when traveling. Documentary, Germany, 2004, 28:56 min., Script and director: Stefan Quante , production: WDR , series: Die kulinarische Reportage , first broadcast: July 31, 2004 on WDR television , synopsis by WDR, online video, part 1 , Dieter Müller at the Gstaad Gourmet Festival .
  • Kocholymp in Bergisch. Documentary, Germany, 2005, 28 min., Script and director: Stefan Quante, production: WDR, series: Die kulinarische Reportage , synopsis by ARD , report on Dieter Müller and Joachim Wissler .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Müller / MS Europe. In: Chef of the Year , 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Heinz O. Wehmann: Dieter Müller. Cooking School Dieter Müller & MS Europe. In: kochmobil.de , biography.
  3. ↑ Ute Glaser: Dieter Müller baptism of roses ... in the rose garden of the Schlosshotel Lerbach on Sunday, July 3, 2005. In: uteglaser.de , 2005, accessed on October 21, 2016.
      Maria Mail-Brandt: “Gourmetrosen”, roses, the Celebrity chefs were dedicated. In: welt-der-rosen.de , accessed on October 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Michael Hedrich: Müller hands over to Henkel. “Deep down in me, I'm an ambitious person.” ( Memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and print version No. 39 of February 15, 2008.
  5. ↑ Press release: MS Europa: Premiere “Restaurant Dieter Müller” on board. In: Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten GmbH , June 28, 2010.
  6. ↑ Jury. In: Chef of the Year , 2016.
  7. ↑ Dieter Müller. The 3-star chef has the last word on “My local, your local special - The perfect Christmas menu”! In: Kabel 1 , December 15, 2015, short biography, (with cooking videos ).
  8. ↑ restaurant-ranglisten.de: Dieter Müller takes over patronage at the Ritz-Carlton
  9. ↑ Kevin Fehling is planning a second restaurant on the MS Europa. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Three stars when traveling. A report by Stefan Quante. In: WDR , July 2004.
  11. ↑ Daniela Fobbe terminal: starred chef Dieter Müller from Odenthal. An oasis for the globetrotter. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , December 2, 2014.
  12. ↑ Press release: Der Feinschmecker recommends: The best restaurants in Germany 2004/2005. In: Der Feinschmecker , August 25, 2004.
  13. ↑ Prize Winner 2009. ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. In: Eckart Witzigmann Prize .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eckart-witzigmann-preis.de
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cook
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Eyes