From Kitchen Princess to Bratwurst Queen
Her path laid clearly before Sofia Hilleprandt, but then everything turned out quite differently. She had just started training as a media designer when her father died suddenly and unexpectedly. Her father was Martin Hilleprandt, the owner of our inn “Zum gulden Stern” and the founding father of the Röstla®.
After her father’s death came the Corona lockdown
For the 19-year-old, there is no question that she is now responsible for the inn, the employees and her father’s gastronomic legacy. Especially since shortly after the death of the beloved immediately followed the next low blow – the gastronomy had to go into the Corona lockdown again. “That was a terrible situation, I lacked any experience,” she recalls today. She had indeed grown up in the “gulden Stern”, to which some pictures in the restaurant bear witness, and she still got and learned a lot from her father in the last few years. But Martin Hilleprandt could not teach her anything about how to steer a company through a full-blown crisis like the Corona crisis. “I just realized that I couldn’t let everything go down the drain,” she recalls today.
Full attention to the sausages
The Hilleprandt family pulls together, mother Beata and brother Martin help her where they can and lend a hand. Sofia tries for several more months to advance her education and the inn at the same time. And then she makes a courageous decision: “I realized that the bratwurst kitchen needs my full attention. She drops out of her apprenticeship.
As the restrictions loosen, guests gradually find their way back to the historic inn. And Sofia Hilleprandt accepts her father’s legacy. Makes his passion for bratwurst and hospitality more and more her own. She launches a podcast called “Bratwurst in the City,” in which she traces the legends surrounding bratwurst together with Björn Becker from the Nuremberg Bratwurst Museum. She designs her own jewelry line and merchandise that can be purchased in her own store. And in 2022, she will finally crowns herself Nuremberg’s Bratwurst Queen, who, upon request, will lead a tour of the “Zum gulden Stern” inn in full regalia and report on the rich history of the house. “Dad would have loved that,” she is sure.
