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Wilhelm Horst Lichter (born January 15, 1962 in Nettesheim ) is a German chef , television chef , cookbook author and presenter . In addition, he occasionally appears on stage as an entertainer .

Life

Horst Lichter grew up as the eldest son of the miner Anton Lichter and his wife Margret Lichter, nee. Heikamp, ​​in the Rhenish lignite district in Gill, a district of Rommerskirchen . At the age of fourteen he began a three-year apprenticeship as a chef with Lutz Winter in the “Alte Post” hotel and restaurant in Bergheim . He chose the profession of cook because he had very positive associations with eating together at the table. As he was disappointed by the tone in commercial kitchens and the fixation on turnover and profit, after a few positions as a young chef he worked in Mönchengladbach and Cologne, among other places, like his father as a worker in a briquette factory . He got married at the age of 19 and got into financial difficulties after buying a house. In addition to his shifts in the mining industry, he was forced to work five days a week in a junkyard. He had his first stroke at the age of 26 and the second followed at 28, along with a heart attack . During the subsequent stay in the rehab clinic , he made the decision to fundamentally change his life.

Regarding his second stroke, Lichter announced that he had a near-death experience . He reported in the Johannes B. Kerner program on February 21, 2007 that although he had noticed all that was happening around him, he wanted to be left alone. He also felt no more pain.

Lichter has two children from his first marriage; a third child from this marriage died as an infant. Another relationship resulted in a daughter. He is married to Nada Lichter for the third time and lived in Badenweiler for eight years , in Cologne since 2020.

The Oldiethek

On January 28, 1990, he opened a restaurant in a former dance hall and car repair shop in Rommerskirchen - Butzheim , initially in addition to full-shift work in the briquette factory . This became better known and in 1995 it was converted into the “Oldiethek” restaurant. The object was shaped by Horst Lichter's passion for collecting ; cars, motorcycles, antiques, junk and kitsch were on display in the restaurant. The warm dishes were prepared by Lichter himself exclusively in a Flemish coal oven in front of the guests. There was no menu . In the evening, Lichter recommended different menus for guests to choose from. A lunch menu was not offered. After Lichter was only able to cook irregularly in the "Oldiethek" due to its increasing other activities, the restaurant was closed at the end of 2010; the building was subsequently sold empty.

Lichter as a TV chef and presenter

Horst Lichter (2nd from left) together with Kolja Kleeberg , Sarah Wiener , Ralf Zacherl and Stefan Marquard (from left) at Kerner kocht , 2007
Horst Lichter with guest Henry van Lyck in the program Lafer! Lights! Delicious! , 2010

Horst Lichter first came into contact with television when WDR produced a report about his “shop”, which later became the oldie shop . He became known nationwide through his appearances in Johannes B. Kerner's Friday cooking show . Also in the follow-up program Lanz cooks! in the ZDF was seen regularly Horst Lichter.

From 2006 to 2017 he was presenter and chef of the ZDF telecast Lafer! Lights! Delicious! which he carried out together with his TV partner Johann Lafer and various celebrities and guests. On January 14, 2008, ZDF also started the series Die Küchenschlacht , in which Horst Lichter is a moderator and jury member. In October and November 2009 Horst Lichter hosted a program on ZDF with the title But please with cream . Here he hosted celebrities Mike Krüger (October) and Andrea Kiewel (November). In January 2011 he acted as a vacation replacement for Steffen Henssler on the show Topfgeldjäger on ZDF.

In March 2012, the series Lichters Schnitzeljagd started on WDR television . There, Lichter is on a scavenger hunt through North Rhine-Westphalia with a motorcycle team and visits people with whom he cooks their favorite dishes. So far, 29 episodes have been broadcast in seven seasons.

Since 2013, Lichter has been moderating the TV show Bares for Rares on ZDF and ZDFneo .

In the summer of 2013, Horst Lichter hosted Germany's biggest grill show on ZDF together with Mirjam Weichselbraun and Johann Lafer from the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle (Westphalia) . The show was looking for the best celebrity grill team. In the summer of 2014, the show was continued as The Great Grill Show . This time the best prominent Eurovision grill team from Germany , Austria and Switzerland was sought.

On October 15, 2016, Koch im Ohr was broadcast for the first time, with Horst Lichter as the presenter. In it, two amateur cooks try to cook a dish with the help of two prominent professional chefs. The candidates are only connected to the cooks in the cubicles via a button in their ears and can only hear them. At the end, the two meals are tasted and rated by an expert. So far, a season with 15 episodes has been produced and broadcast.

From time to time Horst Lichter is a guest in various entertainment formats, including Genial besides and Mord mit Ansage - Die Krimi-Impro Show on Sat.1 . On the quiz show Who knows that? in the first he is one of the guests with the most appearances.

Own products

Since 2006, Horst Lichter has developed Lichter’s delicious beer in collaboration with the Bolten brewery in Korschenbroich . In collaboration with Maggi, Lichter developed his own line of sachet soups , which is sold in connection with his name. He also promotes meat from the Kaufland retail chain . The NDR media magazine Zapp used the example of Lichters to show how TV chefs use the credibility they have built up in cooking shows to give industrial ingredients the appearance of higher quality by means of image transfer.

Together with the pipe manufacturer Vauen , limited pipe collections and tobacco were sold under his name.

Awards

Hobby activities

Horst Lichter's hobbies include motorcycles and automobiles, especially vintage and youngtimers .

Parodies

Because of his characteristic dialect and appearance, Horst Lichter has repeatedly been the subject of parodies. The actor Michael Kessler parodied him regularly together with Max Giermann as Johann Lafer in the television series Switch reloaded . Jürgen Becker parodied him in the show Mitternachtsspitzen with Susanne Pätzold as Frauke Petry . The writer and musician Heinz Strunk dedicated several parodies to him, including a. in the song Fernsehkoch (2015), in the podcast Familienaufstellung (2018) as a presenter of Bares for Rares and in the audio book for his Titanic column Heinz Strunks intimate box , published as a book in 2019 .

Own publications (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Horst Lichter  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on a tour with Horst Lichter in motor-classic from June 3, 2012, accessed on July 16, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c Nachtcafé from October 15, 2010
  3. ↑ Horst Lichter is fed up with the Black Forest - that's why he's moving back to the Rhineland. Stern , accessed January 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Lichter's Oldiethek. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012 ; Retrieved June 9, 2011 .
  5. ↑ No time for assholes! ... listen to your heart by Horst Lichter, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8338-5763-8
  6. ↑ wdr.de: Lichters Schnitzeljagd - To the broadcast
  7. ↑ zdf.de: The great grill show ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ zdf.de: Koch im Ohr ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  9. ↑ wunschliste.de: Cook in the ear
  10. ↑ bolten-brauerei.de: Lichter's Lecker Bierchen ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bolten-brauerei.de
  11. ↑ bolten-brauerei.de: The story of its origins or "Hello, I'm the Horst" ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 13, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bolten-brauerei.de
  12. ↑ Chefs and Commercials on TV . ( Memento from October 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Medienmagazin Zapp , NDR, October 27, 2010, online
  13. ↑ Die Goldene Schlemmer-Duck ( Memento from February 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: State portal Baden-Württemberg )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.baden-wuerttemberg.de
  15. ↑ TV chef Horst Lichter is Pipe Smoker of the Year 2011 , ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release on the pipe smoker of the year award from October 21, 2011 on themenportal.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.themenportal.de
  16. ↑ The Golden Camera 2014 , at www.hoerzu.de
  17. ↑ Visiting Horst Lichter . ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: motorradonline.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.motorradonline.de
  18. ↑ Horst's hot ovens. In: autobild.de , September 7, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Lights, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lichter, Wilhelm Horst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chef, TV chef, cookbook author and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice home