Klaus Besser (Author)

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Klaus Besser (* 1919 ; † 1995 ) was a German author , editor and gastronomy critic .

Life

Klaus Besser was editor-in-chief of the Neue Ruhr Zeitung (NRZ) published in Essen and, from the end of the 1950s, editor-in-chief of the DGB weekly newspaper Welt der Arbeit . In the 1970s, Besser became one of the most famous gastronomy critics alongside Wolfram Siebeck and Gert von Paczensky . It was these three restaurant critics in particular who made nouvelle cuisine and its German chefs known.

From 1970 the restaurant award Goldene Pfeffermühle was initiated by Klaus Besser and awarded by the Bonn society magazine Esprit , which Besser published. The golden pepper mill was considered the most reputable culinary art award in the republic. Besser presented it to Günther Wanka from Hotel-Restaurant Erbprinz in 1974, to Eckart Witzigmann in 1975 , to Rudolf Katzenberger in 1976 and to Lothar Eiermann in 1977 .

In 1978, Besser founded the magazine Besser's Gourmet Journal - The art of enjoying properly , which was transformed into Ullstein's Gourmet Journal in 1980 . In 1982 it became VIF - the gourmet journal , which was finally included in the magazine Der Feinschmecker in 1997.

From 1979 he published a hit list of the best German restaurants, on which he put the Swiss parlors at number one.

Besser published numerous books in the field of gastronomy. After his death, his wife Ilse Besser published Besser's Best Restaurants, Cologne, Bonn and the surrounding area between 1995 and 1999. From 1996 to 1999 she also awarded the Klaus Besser Medal to special catering establishments in Cologne.

Fonts

  • The hundred best recipes from Europe's great chefs . Ullstein Verlag, 1977
  • The hundred best country hotels in Europe . Ullstein Verlag, 1977
  • The hundred best restaurants in Europe. Ullstein Verlag, 1978
  • Connoisseurs, snobs and great cooks. A breviary for connoisseurs . A. Henn Verlag, 1982
  • Better's Guide Europe. The 100 best restaurants . Hoelker Verlag, 1983
  • The high school of enjoyment . Ullstein, 1986
  • The simple, large kitchen of the Troisgros brothers . Heyne Verlag, 1986
  • This is Brussels , Busse-Seewald Verlag 1989
  • The best hotels in Europe. Eating and sleeping de luxe . Ullstein Verlag, 1990
  • No time for Manneken Pis . In: Die Zeit , No. 11/1970; over Brussels

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Besser . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1959 ( online - editor-in-chief “Welt der Arbeit”).
  2. ↑ People are enjoying life again . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1987 ( online - interview with Hans-Peter Wodarz ).
  3. ↑ Golden pepper mill initiated in 1970
  4. ↑ Editor of Esprit  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 5.0 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / w00e3b78.dd27418.kasserver.com
  5. ↑ most reputable culinary art award in the republic  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 5.0 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / w00e3b78.dd27418.kasserver.com
  6. ↑ David Depenau : Der Erbprinz in Ettlingen, Verlag Regionalkultur 2002, p. 100
  7. ↑ Golden Pepper Mill 1975
  8. ^ Awarded the Golden Pepper Mill 1977 to Lothar Eiermann
  9. ↑ Ullstein's Gourmet Journal dnb.de
  10. ↑ Grand Master of Good Taste . In: The world ; Hit list of the best German restaurants
  11. ↑ Klaus Besser Medal 1996 ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Klaus Besser Medal 1998/1999
personal data
SURNAME Better, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, editor and gastronomy critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
DATE OF DEATH 1995