Thomas Platt

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Thomas Platt (born February 4, 1952 in Eberbach , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German book and film author, gastronomic critic and painter . Platt became known in the 1990s primarily as a friend and colleague of the comic artist Brösel alias Rötger Feldmann . Since Werner - tough! (1990) Platt was involved in the scripts of all Werner films as an author. Some of his books (including two volumes Cooking for Stümper ) were illustrated by Brösel.

Today Platt is best known as a restaurant critic, who publishes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , in Cicero and in the Berliner Tagesspiegel and comments on the culture radio of the RBB .

Life

As a teenager, Platt attended the Hohenstaufen grammar school in Eberbach, Baden-Württemberg, and studied at the Free University of Berlin . From 1988 he published humorous city guides for the cities of Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Munich under the title Secret Seducers .

Platt first became known to a larger audience in 1990 as a friend and colleague of Brösel through the film Werner - Beinhart! known. In addition to the script, Platt also wrote the making-of book of the same name in Semmel-Verlach together with Brösel . Since then, Platt has co-written most of Werner's films, and Brösel illustrated some of Platt's books in the 1990s. Around 1990, Platt founded the ABSOLUT IMAGE & TEXT agency together with Brösel.

In 2011 Platt had the first exhibition of his pictures under the title "Panzerschlachten & Co." at Reinmetall Gudula Roch in Düsseldorf. In 2012 "Panzerschlachten 2 - Analytical Abstractions" followed in the Grand Hotel Palace in Berlin.

Platt has lived with his dog as a columnist and freelance writer in Berlin since the 1980s.

Filmography (selection)

Publications

Secret Seducers Series:

  • The secret seducer of Berlin , FAB-Verlag 1988
  • The secret Berlin seducer '93 , FAB-Verlag 1994, 146 pp., ISBN 3-927551-26-0
  • The secret Berlin seducer '94 , FAB-Verlag 2000, 229 pages, ISBN 3-927551-30-9

With Brösel alias Rötger Feldmann:

With Günther Fannei:

  • Berlin. Our 60 Best Restaurants 1990 , Nicolaische Verlagbuchhandlung 1990, 71 pages, ISBN 3-87584-279-0
  • Berlin. Our 55 best restaurants 1992 , Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung 1997, 71 pages, ISBN 3-87584-349-5

With Julius Grützke:

  • Berlin im Griff (1st edition, hardback), Rowohlt 1999, 382 pages, ISBN 3-87134-379-X
    • Berlin under control - With 1000 addresses and recommendations (2nd edition, paperback), Rowohlt 1999, 346 pages, ISBN 3-87134-232-7
  • Dear tenants and subtenants! , Eichborn Verlag 1998, 190 pages, ISBN 3-8218-1508-6
  • Unique pieces - insider tips for shopping in Berlin , FAB-Verlag 2000, 249 pages, ISBN 3-927551-45-7

Other:

  • with Sebastian Pelz: Das Haus am Schlieffenplatz , Gerstenberg (Gebrüder) 2002, ISBN 3-8067-2530-6
  • Berliner Glück: Heimatkunde - Klatsch - Lebensart , Oase Verlag 2006, 254 pages, ISBN 3-88922-094-0
  • What is the anchovy looking for on the schnitzel? Forays of a restaurant critic , Diederichs Verlag 2012, 288 pp., ISBN 3-424-35078-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Article by Thomas Platt on tagesspiegel.de
  2. crumbs; Platt, Thomas (1990). Werner - tough! (Book about the film), Semmel-Verlach 1990, ISBN 3-922969-89-5 , section The authors of this ham (book has no page numbers)
  3. Artur: Thomas Platt Art Points 2017. In: Kunstmüllerei. July 29, 2017, accessed October 7, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ A gastro critic on the brush , Berliner Lokalnachrichten, Issue 22, 2012; Retrieved October 25, 2015.
  5. Thomas Platt , Gourmet Report, November 2, 2012; Retrieved October 25, 2015.