Martin Scharff
Martin Scharff (born December 18, 1963 in Dinkelsbühl ) is a German chef and entrepreneur .
Career
After training as a chef, Scharff worked with Harald Wohlfahrt in Baiersbronn , in Jörg Müller's restaurant in Westerland on Sylt , in La Table in the Hohensyburg casino and in Guarda Val in Lenzerheide . He also completed internships in France and California.
In 1991 he attended the hotel management school in Heidelberg and graduated with the master chef examination and the title of state-certified restaurateur . In the same year he took over the Hotel Eisenkrug in Dinkelsbühl, whose restaurant was awarded one star in the Michelin Guide under his management . Back then, at the age of 27, Scharff was the youngest head chef in a Michelin-starred restaurant in Germany. A year later, Feinschmecker named him “Newcomer of the Year”. After 10 years in Dinkelsbühl, he moved to the Wartenberger Mühle near Kaiserslautern in 2001 . He also became known through the culinary supervision of the Bambi Awards and the Berlinale .
Scharff has been managing the catering operations at Heidelberg Castle since 2012 . In February 2020, Martin Scharff announced that he was restructuring the restaurant so that it would no longer receive a Michelin star.
Memberships
Scharff is a member of Slow Food , the Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs , a founding member of the Jeunes Restaurateur de Europe and the German football team of top chefs and restaurateurs, as well as the jury of the Bocuse d'Or Germany-Selection 2012 & 2016 cooking competition and a member of Rotary .
Awards / prizes / honors
In 2009, Martin Scharff was awarded the Rhineland-Palatinate Gastronomy Prize for his performance in “innovation and training” and was nominated for the Warsteiner Gastronomy Prize, one of the most important German gastronomy awards, “as a role model and encourager for the industry”. In 2009, two trainees from service won the first two places in the gastronomy award, and in 2011 one trainee from the hotel industry took first place. In 2013 Martin Scharff was chosen for his restaurant Scharffs Schlossweinstube at the culinary selection of San Pellegrino for the opening of the year in Germany.
criticism
Criticism of Scharff and his restaurant management was raised in 2009 during the time of Günter Wallraff . Wallraff accused the cook of exploiting trainees and held him against grievances in his company.
Publications
- Martin Scharff, Ute Mangold and Steffen Michler: Wild herbs. Fine wines . Plögerverlag, Annweiler 2007. ISBN 978-3-89857-222-4 .
- Martin Scharff, Rainer Schillings, Ansgar Pudenz: Simply great, creative asparagus recipes . Heel Verlag, Hamburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-95843-321-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ingrid Thoms-Hoffmann: The new castle chef is called: Martin Scharff in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of December 22, 2011
- ↑ https://www.restaurant-ranglisten.de/news-magazin/details/7451-martin-scharff-will-keinen-michellin-stern-mehr/
- ↑ Martin Scharff in the jury of Bocuse d'Or Germany-Selection 2012 ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A shower of prizes for Martin Scharff ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in "Gourmet Hotels" 2009
- ↑ https://www.falstaff.de/nd/wohlfahrt-wissler-thieltges-und-henke-ausgezeichen
- ↑ Günter Wallraff: GROSS kitchen , Die Zeit, July 5, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scharff, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German master chef and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th December 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dinkelsbühl |