Shortly before his 80.He proves his birthday that he is as fast as he begins on Sylt in crab cobblers.Jürgen Gosch only needs a few seconds to skillfully turn an animal out of his tank."You don't forget that.I'm still looking for a challenger who beats me, "says the owner of the trading chain named after him.Before his milestone birthday on 15.May remembers the Sylt celebrity restaurateur of the first sold eels from the abdominal shop and wild party nights in his legendary Lister Fischlokal.Extra outdoor
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The trained bricklayer had started with his small, but later legendary "northernmost fish stall" on Sylt.In the meantime, the entrepreneur operates eleven restaurants on the popular North Sea island with celebrities and has 25 branches on the German mainland, is multimillionaire, is still in the shop every day and dreams of staying there for a long time.
There is no standstill with him."You always have to develop," says "Jünne" Gosch.He is just having the upper floor of his restaurant converted into List."We want to do that a little more," he says.Prominent guests should be able to dine with more privacy in the new "Young Restaurant" from July without being interrupted by autograph -hunting fans.
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His regular guests include football coach Jürgen Klopp and his wife, the former German football player Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge, actress Anja Schäte and CDU politician Peter Harry Carstensen.Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his wife Soyeon Schröder-Kim were also guests last year.
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At all parties, Gosch is no longer dancing today: "I always drank a lot in the past, but I don't drink that anymore, that's too hard for me.At 80 you have to stop."But only with alcohol.The German "Fischkönig" does not think of submitting his company.Because he doesn't feel old.But his daughter Anja, who has taken over the shops in Westerland with her husband since 2012, has been ready.
"I plan as if I'm 50 years old.I won't let up and plan at all.The dear God says all over his own, so my dear boy, now you will stop."He fears the loneliness:" Then I sit at home afterwards, watch TV and then come the repetitions, and I don't notice that at all.You will be tüdig, "says the fishmaker who lives on Sylt in Braderup.He doesn't think about age."I am very lucky that I am in the middle of the company and don't get to it at all.It is the most beautiful thing to be distracted in life, "he says.
The republic's northernmost fish snack bar
Time was rare all his life: the gastronomic career started during the war on the mainland in Tönning (North Friesland) Gosch at the end of the 1960s on Sylt.Even as children, he and his two sisters, one of them his twin, crab to fill the household budget of the single mother.At the port of List he got to know Tönninger crab fishermen and noticed a gap in the market: "Then the guests arrived and asked: Do you also have eels?"The fishermen had none and Gosch started to get out of a basket on the beach eale.
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With success: in 1972 he created the republic at the Lister harbor the northernmost and probably most popular fish snack bar.Fischbrötchen were now also on offer."I couldn't smear rolls on the street," says Gosch.The only four square meter, simple stand was quickly known far beyond the island borders and one of the most famous "fish stalls" in Germany.
Uwe Behrens, founder of the legendary beach restaurant "Buhne 16" in Kampen, has known Gosch for a long time and remembers "Jönnes" first year on Sylt."He plastered the house with us, still black at the time," says the 80-year-old, who is also known as a Sylter-Surflegende.His brothers, also craftsmen, had met the young Tönninger on a construction site.A "funny and very good guy" is this, also very hardworking.
Because of Corona: Not a big snack for 80.birthday
Over the years, the Friese with Gosch -Locals and snack bars on Sylt as well as in many German cities - and a fortune.With fried scampi, Thai noodles, fish soup and matjes, hungry can fortify themselves between the Lister harbor on Sylt and Munich Central Station.A separate fish factory on the mainland is also part of the Gosch empire and its branches on the ships of TUI Cruises.
Gosch needs the exchange and the owner with the guests: when he is in the shop between people, he feels alive.However, he does not want to comment directly on female admirers: "Yes, at that time we always celebrated nice festivals," he says.With him in the shop it was uncomplicated and people could have let themselves go.
That he because of Corona his 80.Can't celebrate his birthday big, makes him sad.Gosch had planned a big party, with friends and companions.Now he wants to drive away with the motorhome.Where?He doesn't know that yet.It is only important to him not to be on the island on his day of honor: "What should I do here? I can't give my hand to anyone.If then properly or not at all."
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