Holger Stromberg

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Holger Stromberg (2011)

Holger Stromberg (born March 15, 1972 in Münster ) is a German master chef , television chef and author .

Career

Holger Stromberg comes from a family that has been in the restaurant business for 150 years. He grew up in Waltrop , where his parents ran the Gasthaus Stromberg until he took it over himself in 2005 with his business partner Stefan Manier .

Stromberg went to the Gasthof Zur Linde in Oberboihingen to train as a cook . He worked his way up to chef de cuisine through positions in several star restaurants, including the Schwarzen Adler in Oberbergen , Le Crocodile in Strasbourg , Santabbondio in Lugano , Goldschmieding in Castrop-Rauxel and the Mark's restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Munich . According to his own findings, Stromberg - at the age of 23 in 1994 in the goldsmithing - was the youngest chef in Germany to be awarded a Michelin star .

Self-employed restaurateur

In 2002 Stromberg started his own business and works outside the classic star kitchen in the fields of catering and cooking events. In 2003 he also opened the "event location" Kounge .

From 2005 to 2009 he ran the G-Munich in Munich, a combination of restaurant, bar and lounge. In 2005, he also took over his parents' Gasthaus Stromberg in Waltrop, which his partner Stefan Manier runs. The company Stromberg Catering provides catering to Europe for major events.

From August 2007 to 2017, Stromberg was a chef for the German national soccer team and was part of the supervisory staff of the German Football Association . On January 31, 2017, he announced that he would no longer do this job. He is still at the DFB's side as a nutritionist.

In January 2009, Stromberg opened the Curry 73 currywurst stand in Munich , which he closed again in October 2017.

Gastronomic commitment

Stromberg got involved early on beyond his own kitchen. In 1997 he was a founding member of the chefs' association Die Junge Wilde , which he headed as president from its inception until the end of 2004. The association of young chefs is made under the slogan "For us, cooking religion" for the move away from traditional gastronomy rules and for young and avant-garde , a cooking and gastronomy concepts.

Media presence

Stromberg published a large number of articles about cooking in print media, some in its own columns, including Der Feinschmecker , Stern , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Welt , Cosmopolitan , Vogue , Glamor , Bunte and Gala . In 2005 he published a book called Cooking. Passion. Perfection. Stromberg writes together with other chefs in a blog at Zeit Online under the title “Nachgesaltzen” .

Stromberg also became known through a large number of television appearances, including in the programs Leben und Wohnen ( tm3 ), Lanz kocht ( ZDF ), Stadtgeflüster ( TV Munich ), Championsday ( Sat.1 ), Internet Couch ( Bavarian TV ), Made ( WDR television ), Munich Live ( RTL ) and ZDF television garden (ZDF). He appeared most frequently on RTL's Punkt 12 show , on which he was a 14-day guest between May 2004 and December 2006.

Web links

Commons : Holger Stromberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kitchentalk with Holger Stromberg daskochrezept.de.
  2. ^ Bread and Players zeit.de, October 12, 2007.
  3. ↑ DFB team and its head chef split up t-online.de, January 31, 2017.
  4. ↑ Proll sausage from the star chef sueddeutsche.de, October 26, 2010.
  5. ↑ End of “Curry 73” - moving to the city center? October 11, 2017, accessed September 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Nachgesaltzen, blog on time online
personal data
SURNAME Stromberg, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German (TV) chef, author and chef for the German national football team
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster , Germany