Walter Putz

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Walter Putz (born April 2, 1924 in Bad Altheide / Silesia; † June 21, 2015 in Baden-Baden ) was a German head waiter in Brenner's Parkhotel in Baden-Baden and collector of an extensive Bibliotheca Gastronomica and a Gottfried Benn collection.

Life

Walter Putz began his hotel training in 1938 at the Hotel Vierjahreszeiten in Breslau , then in Bansin and Stettin . The parents - the father was a coachman in the county of Glatz - were expelled in 1946 and settled in Meißen . Walter Putz came back from captivity in 1947 and worked at the Kaiserhof in Essen from 1951/52 , then in Garmisch , Konstanz , and in 1949/50 at the Bayerischer Hof in Munich . Stations in Badenweiler , Bad Pyrmont and Essen followed. From 1955 he worked permanently at Brenners Parkhotel.

collection

In the early 1950s, Putz acquired his first gastronomic work with an edition of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's Physiology of Taste . It formed the starting point for his collection, which he steadily expanded and which soon aroused the interest of gastrosopers and bibliophiles .

In June 2005 he donated his Bibliotheca Gastronomica, which had grown to more than 4,000 volumes from the 16th to the 21st century, to the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB) . All works can be researched online in the SLUB catalog, a selection of more than 400 volumes has been digitized. In May 2008 his collection was presented with an exhibition in the Badische Landesbibliothek , and Walter Putz was honored with a round table from the Gastronomic Academy of Germany in Brenner's Parkhotel. In 2010, Putz bequeathed his collection through Gottfried Benn to the Saxon State Library.

literature

  • Susanne Kippenberger: How the legendary head waiter Walter Putz put together his “Bibliotheca Gastronomica” over decades - although his love for cooking is purely platonic. In: Susanne Kippenberger: At the table: the culinary bohemian or the discovery of the joie de vivre. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8270-0879-4 , pp. 166-170.
  • Festschrift for the Bibliotheca Gastronomica by the collector Walter Putz . Baden-Baden: Verl. Epidauris Kultur, 2008, 42 pp.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ A b Thomas Bürger : The Bibliotheca gastronomica of the collector Walter Putz. A generous gift from Baden-Baden . In: SLUB-Kurier . tape 19 , no. 2 . Dresden 2005, p. 16–17 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa-81713 .
  2. ↑ Hans Dieter Schreeb : Cookbooks - and Gottfried Benn: The collector Walter Putz , From the Antiquariat 10/1998 on schreeb.com
  3. ^ Heinz Ruhnau: Saxony: Food culture from five centuries , Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung , August 20, 2005
  4. ↑ Listings in the Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel 1984, p. 300 ( limited preview in the Google book search), in the Wandelhalle der Bücherfreunde 1992 of the Society of Bibliophiles , p. 112 f. ( limited preview in the Google book search) and Otto Jägersberg : The second life of books , ed. from Verein Buchkultur eV in cooperation with the Verband Deutscher Antiquare eV, Keicher, Warmbronn 2002 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  5. ↑ Bibliotheca Gastronomica , selection of 430 volumes from the Bibliotheca Gastronomica in the digital collections of the SLUB Dresden
  6. ↑ Invitation to the round table of the Gastronomische Akademie Deutschlands e. V. on the occasion of the tribute to the Bibliotheca Gastronomica by Walter Putz on May 30, 2008
  7. ↑ Bibliotheca gastronomica and G.Benn Collection plaster , SLUB Dresden
personal data
SURNAME Putz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German head waiter, collector of a Bibliotheca Gastronomica
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Altheide , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2015
Place of death Baden-Baden