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Kurt Drummer (born March 20, 1928 in Gornsdorf ; † June 8, 2000 in Chemnitz ) was a television chef and head chef in the GDR .

Drummer became known in the GDR mainly because of his work as a television chef. The program Der Fernsehkoch Recommends began in 1958. Overall, the drummer was active on television in the GDR for over 25 years . His colleague in the field of seafood was the fish cook Rudolf Kroboth . Drummer emerged victorious from a large number of international competitions, including a. in London , Budapest and Vienna .

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Drummer's grave in the Auerbach cemetery in the Ore Mountains

Born as the son of a stocking knitter and a stocking maker , Kurt Drummer trained as a chef at the Hotel Chemnitzer Hof in Chemnitz from 1942 to 1944 . He was then drafted into the Reich Labor Service and in 1945 was taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in June 1945.

After working in agriculture, he was a chef in Auerbach (Erzgebirge) from 1946–48 , briefly kitchen manager in the hotel on the Wartburg near Eisenach in 1948 and deputy chef and teacher at the Chemnitzer Hof from 1948–1955 . In 1955 he studied nutritional sciences at the Institute for Nutrition in Potsdam-Rehbrücke and became head chef at the Hotel Elephant in Weimar , where he also passed the master's examination as a chef. 1958/59 he was head chef of the Carola Hotel in Karl-Marx-Stadt and 1959-64 that of the Chemnitzer Hof .

In the period from May 1958 to August 1983, he produced 650 episodes of the program Der Fernsehkoch Recommends for German TV , in which he presented over 2000 dishes. While the NWDR had hired an actor for its cooking show Please in Ten Minutes at Table with Clemens Wilmenrod , which was started in 1953 , the trained chef Kurt Drummer was able to convince with specialist knowledge and professional experience, even if he could not come up with the rhetoric of a stage artist. Drummer had previously been noticed by the women’s editorial team at the DFF because he was hosting so-called housewife afternoons in the Erfurter Hof . His TV cooking show ran every two weeks on Saturdays, initially at different times between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., later also on the evening before. Drummer received the DFF Golden Laurel Award twice . From 1961 to 1989 he was a member of the SED . When the television show was stopped in 1983 at his request, he was 55 years old and, as he said after the fall of the Wall , simply no longer had the strength and the nerves to call after the ingredients for his dishes, the procurement of which his contract included .

From 1965 to 1990 he was head chef at the hotel chain Vereinigung Interhotel . From 1966 to 1967 he also studied economics at the hotel and catering school in Leipzig . During his career he took part in various international culinary art exhibitions (1971–1986). For the 1974 World Cup in the Federal Republic of Germany , he was employed as a cook for the GDR team . He received from the Association of Inter Hotel 1986 award master chef of international class and twice honored with Golden I . In his spare time, the drummer was a dedicated gardener and barbecue fan. He tried to give recreational barbecues in the GDR a fresh, healthy note by being the first to sell products such as B. Recommended peppers and fish for grilling. He was the inventor of the low-emission drummer grill ignition. In 1999, a year before his death, he was honored with the Culinary Medal of the Association of German Chefs.

Works

  • Kurt Drummer, Käthe Muskewitz: Cooking from the television studio. Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1968
  • Kurt Drummer, Käthe Muskewitz: From apple potatoes to onion cake . Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1982
  • Kurt Drummer, Käthe Muskewitz: Landscape cuisine from Thuringia to Mecklenburg . Prisma Verlag Gütersloh, 1985, ISBN 3-570-09411-1
  • Kurt Drummer, Käthe Muskewitz: The best recipes from the TV kitchen: seasoned with culinary cultural history . Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1989, ISBN 3-343-00413-8

DVD

  • The TV chef recommends - rarities by TV chef Kurt Drummer , 5 episodes from 1962-1965, DVD, 144 min., Studio Hamburg Enterprises GmbH 2015

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tanja Queling: The TV cook to whom so many women owe their recipes in FF, issue 16, 1994, program week April 23-29, 1994
personal data
SURNAME Drummer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German TV chef at the DFF and head chef at the Interhotel in East Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Gornsdorf
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2000
Place of death Chemnitz