Red Gourmet Group: Cooking for rock stars

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Rote Gourmet Fraktion: Cooking for Rock Stars is a book by Jörg Raufeisen, Olaf (Ole) Plogstedt and Hollow Skai . It was published in 2004 and is about the catering service Rote Gourmet Fraktion (RGF). The book reports in part anecdotally about the experiences of the Rote Gourmet Fraktion , who accompanied well-known music groups on tour and took care of the physical well-being of the artists. It contains guest contributions by Rodrigo González and Dietmar Wischmeyer .

background

The RGF regularly accompanied well-known German bands such as Die Ärzte , Die Toten Hosen , Rammstein , Rosenstolz , Die Fantastischen Vier and Fury in the Slaughterhouse on tour. International artists such as Warren G and Courtney Loves Band Hole were also represented. The name as well as the logo are based on the RAF ; the logo is a red star with a kitchen knife instead of a machine gun.

content

The book begins in the late 1980s. Jörg Raufeisen and Olaf Plogstedt got to know each other at the Steigenberger Hotel in Berlin , where Plogstedt was just completing his training as a cook and Raufeisen hired as a pastry chef . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , both quit their jobs in the hotel kitchen of the Steigenberger Hotel and moved to Hamburg, where they worked in different restaurants.

Together they founded the Rote Gourmet Fraktion and organized their first catering on Christmas Eve 1992 together with the band Prollhead . With borrowed 60,000  DM which was Red Gourmet Group officially founded on May 1, 1993rd After further small engagements, she was signed by Bela B. , the drummer of the Berlin band Die Ärzte , for the band's comeback tour that same year.

In their book, Raufeisen and Plogstedt reported on their penchant for the bizarre by garnishing their buffet with horror props such as skulls, replicas of giant insects or dummies of leg stumps or decorating the Christmas tree with tampons, which, according to their own statements, often led to misunderstandings. The creations include dishes such as “nasal tampon with artichoke”, “rats in split gravel”, “junk fish” or “gummy bear lasagne on paving stones”.

rating

The Neue Musikzeitung judges that this “autobiography of a company” gives “[s] smugly-ironic, Hanseatic distanced and with the right amount of self-criticism ... a non-ingratiating insight into the pop business” and recommends the book as it creatively introduces a sector that has hardly been noticed .

output

  • Ole Plogstedt and Jörg Raufeisen with Hollow Skai: Red Gourmet Fraction: Cooking for Rock Stars (= KiWi. Vol. 834). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-462-03397-2 .

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Sven Ferchow: When traveling with the stars and starlets. In: Neue Musikzeitung . Volume 53, 2004, No. 7.