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Tim Mälzer (born 22 January 1971 in
Elmshorn Elmshorn (; nds, Elmshoorn) is a town in the district of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It is 30 km north of Hamburg on the small river Krückau, a tributary of the Elbe, and with about 50,000 inhabitants is the sixth-largest t ...
,
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) is a German television chef,
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,
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and
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.


Biography

Mälzer was born in 1971 in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, the son of a salesman. After graduating with an ''
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'' from the Johannes-Brahms-Schule in
Pinneberg Pinneberg (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Pinnbarg'') is a town in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It is the capital of the district of Pinneberg and has a population of about 43,500 inhabitants. Pinneberg is located 18&nbs ...
in 1990, Mälzer completed his alternative civil service in the district hospital of Pinneberg, and then trained as a cook at the
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in
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from 1992 to 1995. He then worked as a chef at the Ritz Hotel in
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from 1995. After subsequent jobs, he worked in the
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''Neal Street Restaurant'' of
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under mentor
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, where at the same time the then-unknown chef
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was employed. Mälzer and Oliver remain friends. After his return to Germany in 1997, he worked in the Hamburg restaurants
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''Tafelhaus'' (
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), ''Café Engel'' and ''Au Quai''. With Christian Senkel as a partner, he took over ''Das Weißes Haus'' at the historical harbour in Övelgönne in August 2002, which he left in May 2007. At the end of April 2006, Mälzer also leased the ''Oberhafenkantine'' in Hamburg; the restaurant was operated by his mother until the end of 2007 and now has a different tenant. With Patrick Rüther as a partner, he opened the ''Bullerei'' restaurant in Hamburg's
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in June 2009, as well as a chain of ''Hausmann's'' restaurants in
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(December 2012), Düsseldorf's Altstadt (June 2015, now closed), and in
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. In November 2016, he opened the restaurant ''Die gute Botschaft'' (en: ''The Good News'') on the banks of the
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in Hamburg. Mälzer is a consultant to the editorial staff of the magazine ''Essen & Trinken für jeden Tag'' (en: ''Food & Drink for Everyday''), of which he is also an advertising partner. Mälzer voiced
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Horst in the German-dubbed version of the 2007 Pixar animated film ''
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''. In 2010, he became an ambassador for the
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. Mälzer has also been involved in education through his work with the DO School, formerly the D&F Academy, in 2011. Mälzer worked with a group of aspiring social entrepreneurs aged 18 to 28 to produce a multimedia-platform to inspire and inform people around the world about food and ingredients and inspire them to cook. Mälzer remains involved in the capacity of an advisor to the school. During the
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in 2020, he organized a demonstration at the Hamburg city hall square to draw attention to the plight of the severely affected catering industry due to curfew restrictions.


Television Chef

Mälzer is a regular star, presenter, or guest of various German television cooking programmes since 2003. From December 2003 onwards, Mälzer presented the cooking show ''Schmeckt nicht, gibt's nicht'' on VOX, which earned him his first nominations for the German Television Award in 2004 and 2007. The show ran there weekdays until August 2007, when Mälzer switched to the station's evening program, where he hosted the show ''Born to Cook'' until September 2007. Starting in December 2004 Mälzer also appeared frequently on the
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program ''Kochen bei Kerner'', which was broadcast weekly on Friday evenings. Mälzer's popularity as a TV chef also boosted sales of the cookbooks he wrote, ''Born to Cook'' and ''Born to Cook 2''. In 2006 he published the magazine ''Neues vom Küchenbullen'', of which part of the proceeds went to finance
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projects. After a break required for burnout syndrome, Mälzer performed in front of an audience in 2007 in his stage show ''Ham’ se noch Hack''. In addition, he has been a frequent guest on the VOX show ''Die Kocharena'' since the end of 2007. From April 2009 until 2014 he presented the weekly broadcast ''Tim Mälzer kocht!'' (en: ''Tim Mälzer cooks!'') on
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. From 2013 to 2015 he was coach and juror on the
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cooking talent show ''The Taste''. Since February 2016 he has been on air in all but three episodes of the VOX cooking
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show ''Kitchen Impossible'', which was awarded the German Television Prize in 2017 and 2018 in the category "Best Factual Entertainment". Since November 2019 he has hosted the cooking competition show ''Ready to beef!'' on VOX, while friend and Michelin-starred chef
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judges the dishes.


Works

* ''Born to Cook''. Mosaik bei Goldmann, Munich 2004, . * ''Born to Cook 2''. Mosaik, Munich 2005, . * ''Neues vom Küchenbullen'' (en: ''News from the Kitchen Bulls''). Cora, Hamburg 2006, . * ''Kochbuch'' (en: ''Cookbook''). (en: Mosaik, Munich 2007, . * ''Mälzer & Witzigmann. Zwei Köche – ein Buch'' (en: ''Two Cooks – One Book''). (with Eckart Witzigmann) Mosaik, Munich 2010, . * ''Greenbox. Tim Mälzers grüne Küche'' (en: ''Tim Mälzer's Green Cuisine''). Mosaik, Munich 2012, . * ''Heimat'' (en: ''Home'' or ''Homeland''). Mosaik, Munich 2014, . * ''Die Küche'' (en: ''The Kitchen'' or ''The Cuisine'')''.'' Mosaik, München 2016, . * ''Neue Heimat'' (en: ''New Home'' or ''New Homeland''). Mosaik, München 2018, .


External links


Official website
(in German) * *
Official website of the restaurant run by Tim Mälzer
(in German)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Malzer, Tim 1971 births Living people People from Elmshorn German television chefs German chefs Sat.1 people