Günther Wanka
Günther Wanka (born January 9, 1913 , † June 18, 1986 ) was a German chef who was honored by the Michelin Guide for many years in the Hotel-Restaurant Erbprinz from 1966 onwards .
Career
After completing his apprenticeship as a confectioner in 1930, he trained as a chef in 1933 at the Regina-Palast-Hotel in Munich. Years of traveling then led him to a. to the Park Hotel Munich, the Metropol Monopol, Wiesbaden, and the Hotel Adlon in Berlin . After the war he worked at the Ritters Park Hotel, Bad Homburg until 1951. After working as head chef in Fürstenberg, Karlsruhe, he switched to the Erbprinz hotel and restaurant in Ettlingen in February 1957 . In 1966 the restaurant was one of the first 66 hotels in Germany to be awarded a Michelin star .
In 1974 the Erbprinz restaurant was awarded two Michelin stars. Two stars were awarded to seven restaurants in Germany for the first time in 1974, including the Tantris under Eckart Witzigmann and the Schweizer Stuben under Jörg and Dieter Müller .
His pupils included Eckart Witzigmann, Marc Haeberlin , Lothar Eiermann , Hans Haas , Jörg Sackmann and Alfred Klink . Paul Bocuse is said to have asked Klaus Besser to be allowed to hug Günther Wanka for his crayfish à la nage in 1976 at the award ceremony for the Golden Pepper Mill from Klaus Besser .
Awards
- 1966: A Michelin star for the Erbprinz restaurant in Ettlingen
- 1974: Two Michelin stars for the Erbprinz restaurant in Ettlingen
literature
- David Depenau: The 'Hereditary Prince' in Ettlingen. ISBN 3-89735-226-5 .
Web links
- Picture by Günther Wanka in Suite Life Magazine 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b suite-life.com: Issue 1/2013, p. 6: The Hereditary Prince era - the cradle of top German gastronomy
- ↑ a b c restaurant-ranglisten.de: The history of the Michelin Guide in Germany
- ↑ gourmetkritik.de: Star chef Marc Haeberlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wanka, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cook |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1913 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1986 |