Klaus-Werner Wagner

Klaus-Werner Wagner (2019)

Klaus-Werner Wagner (born June 12, 1953 in Frankfurt-Höchst ) is a German chef .

Career

In 1974 Wagner opened his first jeans shop right before he passed his Abitur. Further openings of jeans and sportswear stores in the Rhine-Main area increased the number of the Wagnerian shop to a total of five.

In 1981 Wagner decided to sell his retail stores in order to realize his lifelong dream. In 1982 the hobby chef opened his first restaurant (Restaurant de France in Quellenhof) in Bad Soden am Taunus . In the following years Wagner cooked up awards in all established gourmet guides . In 1988 Wagner opened his second restaurant, the Fresco in Bad Hamburg . In 1990 he moved to the Alte Rose in Hofheim am Taunus as owner and head chef . In 1997 Wagner moved to Mallorca . Until 1998 he ran the Hotel Son Vent in Cas Concos . The hotel happened to be used as a film set for a German television production. Klaus-Werner Wagner began to cater for television and film productions. Culinaria Mallorca was founded. In 2000 he opened the El Cinco restaurant in Porto-Colom, which was already listed in Mallorca's top ten list in 2001 .

In 2002 he went back to Germany. Wagner took over a dilapidated wellness hotel in Sasbachwalden . Wagner's Wellnesshotels Tannenhof went through the media nationwide with the one-time campaign: “ Germany's first target price hotel ” and landed at number one in the business magazine Impulse for the best marketing idea.

In 2008 he opened Gourmet ... the cooking school in Sasbachwalden , the first cooking school for beginners, professionals and amateur cooks. In 2009 Klaus-Werner Wagner was appointed Eurotoque chef by the Association of Top European Chefs (founded in 1986 by Paul Bocuse, another of the prominent members is Eckart Witzigmann).

In 2010, the opening of the second cooking school, the so-called competence center, followed, currently the most modern cooking school in Germany. In 2010 there was a world record in the competence center: Wagner won the longest cooking course in the world and cooked for 36 hours without a break.

Klaus-Werner Wagner is married and has five children, two of them from his first marriage.

Awards

Savoir Vivre
Better food & travel
The gourmet
ARAL
The Red Guide Michelin -Leader
Euro toques
Member of the jury at the German Gastro Award
Marcellino's Top Ten Mallorca 2000

Publications

Summer night dreams. Fantastic menus, table decorations, table music and more ... Ars Edition, 1999, ISBN 3-7607-1779-9 .
All about the apple. (Co-author). Ars Edition, 1999, ISBN 3-7607-8410-0 .
Good moon, you walk so quietly. (Co-author), Ars Edition, 2000, ISBN 3-7607-1759-4 .
How they cook every man soft. (Co-author), Eichborn, 2000, ISBN 3-8218-3493-5 .
How man softens every woman. (Co-author), Eichborn, 2001, ISBN 3-8218-3492-7 .
Field study "Economics of Trust" on Wagner's hotel and target price campaign by Henry Steiniger

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personal data
SURNAME	Wagner, Klaus-Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cook
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt-Höchst